Stay away unless you are a government website
September 27, 2018

Stay away unless you are a government website

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jadu CMS

The worst CMS I have ever used. We use Jadu as the CMS for our college. We have multiple uses throughout the college. It is suppose to be used to organize our departments and content. It is years behind every other CMS I have every used (in my career I have used quite a few CMSs). It is expensive and to be frank, open source options like Drupal and WordPress are a much better option.
  • The one thing Jadu does well is organize your own content well.
  • Jadu has one of the worst database setups I have ever used. If you want to grab content that needs at least 2 categories you are out of luck.
  • It is not flexible at all. A simple thing link create menus with drops downs cannot be done without extensive code.
  • It is extremely slow. Loading pages on the page end takes up to 30sec.
  • The support team are nice guys, but we find ourselves waiting several days for a response to an issues and it doesn't seem like they know what they are doing a lot of the time.
  • Bugs, bugs and more bugs.
  • Jadu have forced us to spend more time figuring out new ways around it database. We have actually turn to updated json files by hand because of how bad the system is for widget.
  • Jadu has cost us a lot of time just waiting for pages to load.
Jadu is miles behind these and many other CMSs. The others are much more up to date with their code and ease of use. The ability to customize other CMSs is much easier and the code structure actually makes sense. Jadu was selected because it had a portal out of the box.
Personally speaking Jadu would only be good for a government style website that is just text. It is not suited for anything else. It's lack of flexibility and amount of extra code need for simple task just does not make it suited for a company looking for a solid CMS option.

Jadu CMS Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
3
Code quality / cleanliness
1
Admin section
2
Publishing workflow
1
Form generator
3
Content taxonomy
1
SEO support
1
Bulk management
1
Availability / breadth of extensions
1
Community / comment management
1
API
3
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
2