Magnolia is a product that allows a high degree of customization for both publishers and developers
January 10, 2022

Magnolia is a product that allows a high degree of customization for both publishers and developers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia

The company where I work has been a Magnolia partner for almost a decade. I started working with the product more than 5 years ago and since then I have been involved in many different types of projects, covering customers in areas such as tourism, aviation, and public administration. My work with Magnolia consists of developing the functionality needed by each of these customers, doing version migrations, and solving the problems that we encounter.
  • Ease of page setup for user editors
  • Personalization of content based on the characteristics of the visiting user
  • Open source makes developers' lives easier
  • Intuitive interface
  • Use of JCR limits the amount of content that can be handled efficiently.
  • The latest version has made it more complicated to customize content apps than in previous versions.
  • It has a steep learning curve for new developers.
  • Headless solutions without the need for development
  • Extensive configuration depending on the environment in which it is to be deployed
  • Problems with node corruption, disk space and JCR usage issues
Magnolia makes it easy to use for content editors, everything is focused on making it easy to use for this type of user. However, the learning curve can be steep and the concept of publishing can be complicated at first for certain types of users. As for the administrator or developer user, I see it as more complicated and the documentation could be improved.
Magnolia is efficient in loading pages and content as long as the content is structured in folders of less than 2000 items. Above these elements and with content that requires many properties, efficiency drops and can become slow. This is a limitation that has more to do with the JCR nodes than with the product itself.
One of the most important points that magnolia has over other products is the possibility of extending its functionalities. Being open-source, it is possible to inspect how everything is done and replicate it to change functionalities. In this way, many features that customers need and would otherwise not be able to cover are covered.

Do you think Magnolia delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Magnolia's feature set?

Yes

Did Magnolia live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magnolia again?

Yes

Magnolia is well suited for cases where Magnolia is going to be used to make web pages where an editor needs to make changes or edit the content on certain pages. In cases where you have a small volume of content and want to customize the content based on user characteristics. Also if you want to use it as headless. Magnolia does not fit when you want to use the CMS as a back-office or to manage a large amount of content that needs to be referenced as you would in a relational database. It is not suitable for content that is related to other content and has different types of content as children.

Magnolia Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
8
Code quality / cleanliness
9
Admin section
8
Page templates
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
4
Form generator
6
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
8
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
7
API
7
Internationalization / multi-language
8
Role-based user permissions
9