Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

The technical support and creative thinking to achieve the goal.

It can be challenging using some of the older versions to easily create features that are pretty standard today.

Event details and easy for the user to find and utilize.

Mura is a full featured CMS, which is to say, it can handle the complexity of enterprise level websites. From user permissions to a custom page types, contact forms, multiple site administration, etc. It's modern, extendable, and has a really responsive team behind it. It's CFML based, which might be a negative for PHP developers, but is a fantastic for CFML teams, because you can customize and extend it as needed. I also like that it is a mature product that is still under active development.

Disclaimer; Users of the CMS would likely not experience these as issues; this is more from a developer perspective. While reviewing the code, to see if we would be utilizing it internally, there were some design decisions, both on the front and back end, that we found questionable. Additionally, like a lot of older, full-featured content management systems that were designed to handle a wide-range of use cases, the code felt bloated in places.

We were looking for a full featured, customizable, CFML based content management system (CMS). The end goal was building and supporting a fast, modern website, and making it easy for our content/non-tech team to manage the site. While we ended up going in a different direction (custom, in-house CMS), Mura certainly does fit that description. It's a fantastic product.

I like the ease of use and the ability to manipulate the tables easily

The handling of photos can be problematic. It's sometimes difficult to get the right padding and spacing in the wysiwyg

I build most of our webpages on several sites. I do product development. Mura has made it possible for me to work faster because I don't have to wait for a coder to get things done.

It is easy to customize Mura to fit the needs of your company. You can easily extend or connect it to an external API to render pages based on the result of an AJAX request. I was very surprised I could do that and pair it with query strings to get exactly what you want displayed on a page an it took me only one afternoon to accomplish. Also, the fact that I can put cfml code in my templates is simply awesome. I am not a Cold Fusion developer, but I got that done pretty fast. Mura's SEO capability is also pretty good. I got a customer's site to easily show on first in all search engines using the SEO stuff in Mura. Good work!

The text editor has been improved a lot, but CK Editor already had its days. It would be great to switch to something that's React based. I would also love to have database bindings for SQLite. I also still can't figure out how to use Mura's API features to return the page body using an AJAX request. I wish there was a feature that allowed me to embed components into a theme. The only way to do this now is probably with a site bundle.

I run a non-profit website and one customer website with Mura. SEO is really great! I was very unhappy when my organization decided to switch to Mura, but at that point we had static websites still made with FrontPage, but over the years, Mura grew on me. I like it much more now, so much that I use it for freelance projects as well.

Easily and effectively design web pages, no need to write lengthy code for that.

Thought it has mobile friendly layouts, I felt bit challenging to use it.

I used it for web development.

If power appeals to you, then you are in the right spot. It is extremely powerful and provides a ton of customizations options for a CMS.

Not the most visually appealing templates available. Most have to be hand generated.

Used as a backup CMS

I am very new to Mura and have only been using it for the past few months. I still have a lot to learn, but so far I like that this CMS is a true CMS and not just a blogging platform. There are a lot of powerful personalization capabilities and it doesn't seem to be difficult for non-tech users to navigate.

The Mura community is a bit small and it would be nice if the the online documentation was more detailed (granted there is already a lot of Mura docs available, but it is still very difficult to find what I need and often the docs don't have the answer) . As a brand new user, I've been relying on the online documentation and community google forums in order to learn, and I often end up having trouble finding exactly what I need. The admin interface also feels outdated, and there is a shortage of well designed templates.

I use Mura to build and design custom websites for both for-profit and non-profit clients. I am still unsure of the benefits Mura has compared to other CMS.