Magnolia CMS - The Single Tool that Lets You Use All Others More Efficiently!
November 30, 2021

Magnolia CMS - The Single Tool that Lets You Use All Others More Efficiently!

Jonas Lesy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia

By working together with Magnolia CMS, our company manages to deliver some of the best content management experiences for our customers. They continue to shape the composable DXP world as we know it today. We can seamlessly integrate many of the different external tools our customers have with Magnolia CMS without too much effort. From managing assets in external DAMs to displaying product information retrieved from already-owned PIMs, centralization is key. They manage to allow you to optimize and boost the reusability of any type of content a customer may have. Their recently released PaaS solution also offers a lot of flexibility and we're happy to be one of the first teams to work with/on it.
  • Customer support
  • Communication
  • Innovation
  • Documentation
  • Training
  • A few more options for image manipulation in their DAM would be nice.
  • Their new PaaS partially takes CI/CD struggles out of our hands.
  • Magnolia allows us to take scalability to another level. In a matter of minutes, a new instance can be set up.
Their user interface is very nice and user-friendly. Since the release of Magnolia 6.0, their UI is on another level. Everything is easy to find by using their find bar. Even development-wise, by being open-source out-of-the-box, code can easily be adapted to implement the feature you just can't seem to create yourself.
By being a composable DXP, Magnolia really delivers when it comes to speeds and integration. If there's any module that you don't need, you can just exclude it from your instance. Behind the scenes, [there is also optimization] mechanisms available, like caching to boost page loading speeds. Integration with other systems is easily done by the use of APIs. When this is needed for multiple projects, a simple Magnolia module can be created for it.

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

Magnolia is well suited when you have a lot of different types of content. From images to products, from blog articles to FAQ sections, Magnolia's app system allows you to manage them in a very structured way. If you're looking for a DAM management tool, Magnolia might not be what suits you best. However, you could use an external DAM system (which has more asset-specific features) and connect it with Magnolia.

Magnolia Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
6
Admin section
9
Page templates
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
7
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
10
Bulk management
6
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
10
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
8
Role-based user permissions
10