Disclaimer: The roadmap contained herein consists of good-faith release estimates on a quarterly basis. However, none of the dates should be considered hard commitments.
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The problem with hybrid-headless CMS
The hybrid-headless CMS has always facilitated visual building of static websites, but beyond native theme layers and templating layers, such as universal JavaScript, hybrid-headless visual builders fall short.
Hybrid-headless CMSs have visual builders with rich in-place component editing, but only for static websites they manage.
The problem with pure headless CMS
The headless CMS, which grew quickly partially in response to the advent of universal JavaScript, relegated content teams to managing content solely as data without input into content’s appearance in presentation layers.
Pure headless CMSs lack visual builders with rich in-place component editing, and all such components become “black boxes” to editors.
Universal CMS: The next era of content management
The universal CMS empowers content teams and developer teams as first-class citizens on any stack, any technology, and any channel, restoring the equilibrium between personas that characterized the first CMS generation.
In short, one of the main things that we're really focusing on at dotCMS is enabling you to edit not just websites or static websites, but also to be able to do rich visual editing and visual building across a variety of channels and across a variety of technologies, whether that's mobile applications, digital signage, set top boxes over the top applications, extended reality such as augmented virtual reality.
Universally editable - Omnichannel and multimodal
Content teams can edit content destined for any channel.
Universally generable - Any content, any component
Content teams can generate any content, any component.
Universally developable - Any framework, any tech
Developer teams can bring any stack, any tech, any framework.
Universally deployable - Any infrastructure
Developer teams can use any infrastructure to host their stack.
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The Shift to Universal CMS: Integrating Flexibility and Functionality
dotCMS explains the end of the 'pure' headless CMS era and recognizes the need for Universal tools that cater equally to developers and content creators.