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Optimizely Content Management System

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What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

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Recent Reviews

Optimizing for Success

9 out of 10
November 10, 2023
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We manage our college website and market our programs to prospective students using Optimizely CMS to ensure that all information is …
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A Solid CMS Platform

8 out of 10
October 16, 2023
Incentivized
We use the ptimizely Content Management System to manage content on our B2B website. The product enables us to quickly and consistently …
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Popular Features

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  • Publishing workflow (125)
    8.1
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  • Page templates (126)
    8.0
    80%
  • Admin section (126)
    7.9
    79%
  • WYSIWYG editor (128)
    7.7
    77%

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What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

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  • Setup fee required
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Product Demos

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

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Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

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Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

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Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

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Product Details

What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Its tools let marketers build channel-specific experiences in a few clicks (no coding needed), while Optimizely's GraphQL service enables content delivery from anywhere, to anywhere, to meet customers where they are.

Brand-approved content can be stored and organized for easy reuse with Optimizely's fully-integrated DAM, and data-driven personalization with AI-guided insights can be applied to deliver consistent, on-brand content that's optimized for individuals, in real-time.

Optimizely Content Management System Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: .NET

Optimizely Content Management System Screenshots

Screenshot of SaaS CMS edit view: A drag-and-drop UI authoring and on-page editing lets marketers and content creators build content experiences.Screenshot of Content delivery: Developers can use modern GraphQL and REST APIs to query content from any source and send it to any channel or device.Screenshot of Screenshot of DAMConnector: The fully featured Optimizely Digital Asset Management can connect to Optimizely CMS to serve as the single source of truth for brand assets.

Optimizely Content Management System Integrations

Optimizely Content Management System Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Sitecore Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Manager, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for Optimizely Content Management System.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Optimizely Content Management System are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The CMS is used to power our public facing Marketing website. The CMS allows us to easily create and share content with our users.
  • Easily create new page templates and blocks
  • Hosts our site as a PaaS
  • Content creation process on the backend
  • AI Features (Search & Navigation/Find, Image Tags/Descriptions)
  • Redirect Manager, needs a 3rd party tool like SEO Toolbox
  • Sitemap Generator, needs a 3rd party tool like SEO Toolbox
  • Built in options for hiding/showing properties/tabs, needs a 3rd party tool like Alloy.HideTabs
It's extremely well suited to host and manages website.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to build landing pages, marketing content, hundreds of content pages for campaigns, promotions, homepage, header, footer. So the challenges you're solving is equipping marketers to do their job without the need of development.
  • Enabling marketers to create content without having to go to the development team. That's what that Spire CMS really does for you.
  • On the technical side, Spire is all built on React Redux, so there's a React framework and then Optimizely built their own framework on top of that React implementation, which is, I'd say customized and non-standard. So learning that as a developer is usually a four to five month learning curve. So that is a con where it's not a standard React redux implementation.
It's well suited for commerce customers. So if your business is focused on selling things, that's your general funnel. It's a good CMS for that because the core of your site is to sell product and marketing content is kind of secondary, maybe even tertiary to that. So that's a good fit. It would be a bad fit if you were building a lifestyle website where maybe you're not trying to monetize product or even get quote requests, you're like a blog or you're creating lots of content. It would not be a good fit for that
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Stream lining content management for customers websites that allow marketers to make changes to websites without always needing the help of a developer.
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Search Functionality
  • Openness to integrations
  • There is a large development lift for an initial site build.
  • The time to launch is fairly long, but worth it if done right.
  • Not all products are integrated into the CMS interface.
Mid market and enterprise organizations where there is some development team that can help support the site. Also, if the company has a lot of content and a robust content calendar, Optimizely Content Management System is a good fit. If the site can be static because updates are not being made often, Optimizely CMS is not the right fit.
October 16, 2023

A Solid CMS Platform

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the ptimizely Content Management System to manage content on our B2B website. The product enables us to quickly and consistently create and manage our site content. We use page templates and assets that our team created in the system to enforce the structure and voice that we use for our brand.
  • Web content management
  • versatile page templates
  • resource pages
  • content search
  • clunky interface
  • building templates too technical
The system is well suited for companies with basic requirements for content management that may not have a large IT department, but still want the flexibility to create their own templates and manage a large number of pages, assets and resources. The general structure and features that are available out of the box provide a great starting point for any company.
Brian Hill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ease of use for marketers to create content without having to get technical teams involved. It's intuitive interface allows even the most non technical people to create and publish pages.
  • Ease of User
  • Many out of the box features
  • Reliable
  • Overall cost
  • Too many confusing add ons
  • Clear path on search
It's enterprise level software that feels that way. It's ease of use and reliability make it a strong contender for any client we work with. Being a leader in the space makes Optimizely an easy recommendation!
October 16, 2023

Great CMS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Produce implementations for various clients as a partner of Optimizely.
  • Code first approach
  • Content APIs
  • Easy to upgrade
  • Data export by project or multiple nodes
  • Ability to rollback published projects
  • Better developer documentation available at World
At present time, I believe Optimizely is a better offering than other providers on a Windows stack. Its price may be prohibitive for certain companies or markets, for which there's open source options.
October 13, 2023

Great product

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have over 50 agencies and around 100 sub-sites, and Optimizely Content Management System has been instrumental in helping us maintain our website.
  • Ease of use for the end users
  • Ease of development
  • Personalization
  • Projects are difficult - It's difficult for users to know they are in a project, and it can cause confusion.
It is a great system, easy to develop and is extremely fast and powerful compared to other CMSs I've used.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the DXP to manage our business-to-business website and its related content.
  • Page creation
  • Page editing
  • Site administration
  • Needs more customer service portal functionality out of the box
  • More visibility to SEO properties
  • Better content search
Optimizely Content Management System is well suited to run any website for a medium to large sized enterprise. It has many of the features necessary to enable content editors (non-technical users) to be able to administer a website without IT involvement.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our website runs on Optimizely Content Management System, and the speed and efficiency that we can make and publish changes on our site has been a game changer. It's allowed us to focus less on meticulously publishing content on our site and more on our visitors. The DAM has also been very helpful in organizing our digital assets, allowing us to quickly find files and use them in the right places.
  • Easy site management with quick turnarounds on updating and publishing content
  • Adding digital assets and organizing them for quick and easy access
  • The search functionality is much better than we had before, allowing us to find search terms that are frequently used, and others that aren't delivering the right results, allowing us to prepare for those search terms.
  • Training videos could be helpful for all the tools that I have available to me. I love the potential of them all, but I worry I don't understand how to fully take advantage of all the capabilities there.
  • Some tools feel more buried than others, making it hard to get the most out of the CMS.
  • I wish I had some more developer tools so I could make quick and easy fixes rather than reaching out to our developers to do it for me. I have skills in that area, and I feel like I can't take advantage of them anymore.
It's been great for our small team as we've been able to streamline the content creation and publishing processes, allowing us to branch out into other important areas such as user testing.

However, I do wish I had more access to the development side, as we don't have our own dedicated development team. Instead we've outsourced that, and they've done a great job! I just wish I had the ability to take care of some of the development work rather than having to wait on their busy timetable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are still in the "crawl" stage, to be honest. Very basic usage of product attribution and layout management. We are working with a 3rd Party to overhaul the platform as well as implementing an MDM to better manage our product content.
  • Well laid out UI and intuitive UX
  • Ability to easily select and deselect specific content or rules
  • Ability to see what you changed and review before publishing
  • Would like better mass change tools
  • For a novice user, having "everything" available can be overwhelming vs. giving the user a "recommended" set of things to manage and then opting in and enhancing as they learn and can do more.
I'd say appropriate for a somewhat mature marketing/eComm organization with at least one dedicated FTE running just the CMS.

Less than that, and it could be, as my son would say "OP" and require a lot of prioritization if it's just "part of someone's job".
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Content Management System for our website. We did the buildout with an agency vendor and completed phase 1 of our MVP launch August 1. We are now scoping phase 2 to remediate some Search and block issues, as well as additional microsite migrations.
  • Scheduling content to be published
  • Blocks provide flexibility
  • SEO and tagging options
  • The blocks have limitations with the vendor build
  • Complications with rolling out to the organization to manage their pages because of complexity
We will be able to grow into the CMS
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is our web content management system for astho.org. The system has helped us produce digital content in a quicker, more efficient way.
  • Easy to search components
  • Cross posting
  • Explore how users search and make improvements based on user data
  • Can be quite complex for small orgs
  • Lots of options, but can be expensive to implement
Large marketing and content team
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We migrated our website to Opti B2B Commerce in June. The platform improved our customer experience with Waytek. We were looking to improve our SEO, which we did, and were looking to reduce abandoned cart rates and improve site performance.
  • SEO
  • Ease of use for content edits.
  • In site search.
  • Performance/speed.
Well suited for distributors, especially if you use their PIM.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implement Optimizely Content Management System for the whole spectrum of websites, from eCommerce to SPAs to internal to informational.
  • It adheres to Microsoft's best practices and stays up to date with recommendations.
  • It has an intuitive interface for content editors -- complex enough for nuanced use cases, but simple enough that it often doesn't require formal training.
  • Optimizely Find allows opens up the door to creative solutions for building highly dynamic and targeted websites.
  • Folders containing many blocks can cause significant performance issues.
  • Updating the underlying technology for Find could open up doors to more modern search solutions.
It's difficult to pick just one or two cases, since Optimizely Content Management System has tools for building quite a wide variety of sites. Perhaps the most fundamental use case is a good place to start: Optimizely Content Management System works well for any website requiring multiple users to create content collaboratively. Most end-users would require barely any training for this type of site, and it's very easy to set up and maintain.

It's also well suited for eCommerce. The integration points provided by the CMS are far simpler than alternatives, yet provide the same level of customization and extension.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a consulting firm solving the business needs of our clients using many products, where Optimizely CMS is one of the more frequent choices by our clients.
  • Content Management.
  • Freedom over code.
  • Support for .NET 6+.
  • Deployment process to DXP.
  • Release notes summarized with potential features/patches having an impact on the day-to-day work.
  • Easier access to bug fixes recently released.
I'd say Optimizely CMS is best used at medium to large organizations with a lot of content and resources. Smaller businesses could have a lot of use of the basic product but with the price tag (not only for licences but also in development) I usually find smaller clients turning to cheaper alternatives.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my company, we use Optimizely Content Management System for presenting our web content to users that are seeking information regarding their pension plans. Optimizely Content Management System is used as the content management system and also has integration points for delivering information to our mobile app users.
  • Easy content management
  • Integration points for mobile applications
  • Easy search optimizations
  • API's for accessing content via a nuget package for .NET mobile apps
  • Simple forms builder
It is very well suited to handle content management and help displaying content depending on the type of user.
The user type is defined by the appropriate visitor groups, enabling the system to present just the information this particular user needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The primary usage is in managing content for our main website, with approximately 3000 individual pages. Optimizely (Or EpiServer in our case) provides a fast and easy solution to replicate blocks and templates to make our daily tasks in creating and managing these pages more efficient and seemless. Our product pages require frequent updates and we really appreciate how much customisation can be provided. We provide a wide range of products along with news content, upcoming events, forms and a comprehensive search function has made navigating all these a breeze.
  • Customisation
  • Scripting support
  • Customer support is vert fast and helpful
  • Forms had trouble with high traffic
  • Occassional disconnections while working
Many product pages have repeated layouts and themes which the built in templates and blocks can handle with ease. Asset management is much more intuitive than some other CMS solutions I have had experience with which makes it very satisfying to use. There are some features such as automatic archiving that we are looking to implement further for events to help tidy up our workflow. Something that I would like to see implemented to better suit our needs would be an separate mobile layout to help with responsiveness.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as the CMS for our main website, it is great for modifying front end content and is it great for hot fixing front end problems on the website due to its flexibly and scripts
  • The customizable block and page types
  • The script block is really handy for doing front end fixes, something I missed when using other CMSs
  • Being able to apply styles and scripts globally or by page via the CMS itself is really handy
  • The search bar for blocks you've created doesn't work on my version of the CMS but this may have been fixed in an update
  • the WSIYG block removes/scraps any CSS in it which for me can be pretty annoying
  • If you're inactive for like 10 minutes then you will have to refresh, this can be annoying for me sometimes
I would recommend this CMS to anyone wanting to do a lot of front end hot fixes on their website. The CMS has great flexibility and allows you to do a lot within the CMS itself without going into the back end which is really helpful for our team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We deliver engaging actionable content and experiences for our membership. It enables us to strengthen, grow our brand authority, develop new digital solutions, and increase global growth.
  • Develop and build new website content
  • Organize website architecture
  • Identify issues and resolve them rapidly
  • Manage media assets effectively
  • Provides an agile, dynamic means to deliver an experience
  • Enables the end user/customer to create new layouts or templates
  • Excessive developer costs are needed to support any changes to blocks, templates, functionality.
  • Free training to offset high support costs and unlock community of developers.
  • Specialized Agencies and Developers are needed at a high cost to build or create new functionality.
  • No efficient means to manage URL redirects automatically or generate batch redirects for major architectural improvements.
  • Language translation is extremely cumbersome if translating an existing website. Manual block by block, page by a page process.
Develop content rapidly for marketing initiatives. Landing pages, or lead generation. Manage SEO effectively. Easy to understand site structure. Easy to manage assets, files, images, etc. Easy to manage access rights and permissions. Easy to assign personalization for various content pieces.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely to build our website and market our products towards our customers/members. Selling a membership online requires a lot of insight on how users interact with our products and the site in general.
  • Strutctured building blocks
  • Ability to SEO
  • User friendly and relatively easy to learn
  • Searching for files through the folder search can sometimes give unwanted/no results
  • Better use of the image editor
  • EPi forms could be easier to use
Optimizely Content Management System works wonders within a company with many users. Being able to manage users with different authorities gives a flexibility that helps the day-to-day work.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When I started working at Spirotech they were "ready" to launch a new website. Unfortunately, the "new" website was no more than a couple of images. Knowing that we do business in multiple countries (even expanding) I knew I needed a solid and easy-to-use WCM system to build our websites on. I did some research in regard to WCM systems and possible (implementation) partners. After a short but intensive process, I came to the conclusion that EPIserver/Optimizely was the best option for us with Delaware Belgium as our partner. After signing the contract we were able to set up 4 fully functional websites incl. an integration of a PIM/DAM system for our products, within 7 months. So setting up the system and building the websites!
  • Ease-of-use for handling content and building websites
  • Perfect for dealing with multiple websites (language wise and different websites)
  • Excellent support and service from Optimizely
  • The flexibility/functionality of forms
  • Ease of handling formdata towards a CRM system
  • Maybe more "out-of-the-box" solutions (a.o. blocks) for faster implementation
  • Switch of cache on images/assets, makes it difficult for designing pages/blocks (uploading changed image should be there on the spot ;-))
I already work with EPI/Optimizely for more than 10 years and found out (in practice) that it is a very easy-to-use platform to handle multiple (I managed 16) websites at the same time not only in different countries but also languages. I also know that it is easy to learn for colleagues so they can change texts (and pages). I have to be honest to say that designing pages is not difficult but you need to understand the Customer Experience (psychology) to create nice-looking and easy-to-read pages. But once the page is designed (master) it is easy to get the data (different text/languages) in. All data is easy to structure and to control in all languages.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We maintain around a dozen different brand websites, all offering different job positions in the Healthcare industry. Optimizely helps us to deliver a different set of content and ways to apply using a code base, which helps a lot in terms of creating content new features that can be used across different business lines. We also use Optimizely to create content that gets delivered to our mobile application using their Content Delivery API, which can also be personalized according to the User preferences and needs.
  • A centralized UI to maintain multiple websites using a common entry point.
  • Page types and blocks that can be highly customized using .NET code, but at the same time allows checks and validations when being created by Marketing/Content Users.
  • A very good set of extra libraries/add-ons that allows to expand website functionality in a very short period of time (Content APIs, Personalization, A/B Testing, Social)
  • The Admin CMS UI can be faster and be better organized. It does feel like left behind when compared to the Content Management UI.
  • Page and Blocks Previews can be a tad hard to render properly when Content is complex.
  • We use a lot of ReactJS in our Blocks, that can be challenging to integrate properly in the Content Management UI.
Our choice to migrate all our websites to Optimizely was based largely on their MVC .NET architecture that allowed us to create many reusable templates for multiple sites at once. Our main goal was to simplify delivery and code maintenance: we went from needing hours to deploy changes affecting all our sites, to only need 20 minutes.

Optimizely is good for complex solutions, where a lot of customization is needed on a website or web application (i.e. several block types/controls that need to be reusable and customized). For a simple brochure website, with a few dynamic pages, this can be an overkill solution.

Irene Chung | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed a user-friendly CMS and e-commerce site that can easily be scaled to enable personalization and marketing automation. We recently migrated a segment of our website to Optimizely as a test - the team is finding the platform easy to use and anticipates it will enable us to develop more in-house experiments without as many outsourced development requirements. We've also just turned on ODP to get ready for segmentation and personalization.
  • commerce order management
  • search management
  • content block drag and drop
  • commerce-related pages content management
  • commerce-related email management
  • finding out commerce default settings
Optimizely content management system is well suited for businesses with hands-on marketers wanting to implement ideas quickly.
February 17, 2023

Optimizely (Episerver)

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a core component of our strategic platform that supports our web presence and self-service portals (B2B and B2C). Along with the DxP it allows us to either build or integrate solutions for our 3 lines of business on a core, modern platform.
  • Scalable
  • extendable
  • Depending on how it's been structured it's hard to search for content within an application's node
  • Remains a challenge to control search indexing
  • Perhaps not directly related to CMS but the Optimizely Data Platform seems overly complex. We need more expert support to even understand it's use.
It's been excellent for our information publishing
It has been able to be deeply integrated in delivering content to React applications
An older version was used for commerce, and it works, but a dedicated platform would have been a better choice
We rely on external support for template development which tends to be costly compared to simpler CMS platforms
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Optimizely CMS to create and manage both office and school websites. We have around 300 sites we manage in our organization. By being able to create and edit content quickly it allows us to be proactive in getting information to our students, families and staff members. We are also able to manage official documentation and share images and other content with all of our web editors which is a very nice feature. It allows our content to remain cleaner and more up-to-date.
  • Content sharing
  • Drag and drop for ease of editing
  • Drag and drop for new assets (pictures and files)
  • There should be a search option in the Projects list. Very necessary for people managing so many sites
  • There could be more reminders about picture dimensions.
  • More of a breadcrumb trail in the search boxes for assets and pages so it is easier to identify the source of the content since so many pages have the same name.
  • Adding at least a partial breadcrumb trail in the project overview area with the file name would be helpful.
  • Changing projects does not always work even though it looks correct. Users who change projects a lot can edit up putting tasks in the wrong project.
  • The preview defaults to the last published draft for school sites now vs the draft. Doesn't really make sense to not automatically be able to preview the draft of a page.
I particularly like the drag and drop feature for content use and page building. Utilizing that with the Recent gadget makes it very easy to build pages with already created content. Since many of our school based editors are full time teachers making editing much easier will help them a lot. The Opti platform being in one page verses the pop-up pages in the old Ektron CMS makes it much easier as well. I would give the platform a 10 except sometimes when I switch projects it looks correct but does not actually change. Also instead of giving me a "you are signed out" message sometimes it just seems to stop working. When I manually sign out and back in again it starts working correctly again. This is less of an issue for our school based editors but since I edit pages all day and have selected that I should stay signed in not sure why this happens. It could possibly be due to Google Chrome caching.
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