Developing Web Apps with Magnolia
July 05, 2021
Developing Web Apps with Magnolia

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia
To begin with, Magnolia is not used in whole of our company or other departments. I am a software/web application developer. Given that I had the decision making power over what tool we should use for CMS and SEO management for a website, I went with Magnolia for our use case.
Pros
- SEO management is quite automated and powerful. I lacked knowledge of SEO as a backend developer but the tool made my life much easier.
- The headless CMS is awesome. It allowed me to use Magnolia as a central data warehouse for my web app.
- Analytics and traffic monitoring offers great way to research which components are gaining traction a and what needs to be improved.
- It also has payment systems built in. I did not use it but it shows how complete of a software suite it is.
Cons
- Feature deprecation: There have been cases where some of the features I used were gone or changed in newer releases. This made updating website code mandatory and hence increasing the cost.
- Difficult for beginners. Especially not from technical background.
- Saving time on common web development activities such as SEO, content delivery and marketing (newsletters).
- Negative: Initial training might be required in some cases.
Do you think Magnolia delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Magnolia's feature set?
Yes
Did Magnolia live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Magnolia again?
Yes
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