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Technical Guides
- 8 Mar 26
AI Search Made Easy
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
- 1 Mar 26
Headless dotCMS Quick Start : Introducing dotCMS create app CLI
Learn how to bootstrap a headless CMS project with Next.js using @dotcms/create-app CLI. Skip documentation overload and render your first content in minutes.
Afaq Javed
Developer Relations
- 10 Feb 26
DXP vs CMS in 2026
Choosing between a DXP and a CMS is not about labels. It is about finding the right balance of experience capabilities, governance, and cost for your enterprise. This guide breaks down the DXP vs CMS landscape, compares leading platforms, and explains why many organizations land in the middle with an enterprise CMS approach.
Jason Smith
Co-founder
- 5 Feb 26
Debugging dotCMS: A Practical Checklist (Logs, Cache, API Playground, Network)
Debugging dotCMS is less about panic and more about knowing where to look. This guide walks through the most reliable places to check when something feels off, confusing, or just plain stubborn.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
- 19 Jan 26
Scaling dotCMS: Lessons from Building PartnerCMS as a UX-First Layer
Scaling to thousands of partner sites isn’t just an architecture challenge — it’s a usability one. Learn how Solvisse built a UX-first control layer on top of dotCMS to give partners safe editing freedom without sacrificing governance or brand control.
AI in CMS
- 9 Mar 26
AI Content Governance for Content Teams: A Practical Framework
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
- 8 Mar 26
AI Search Made Easy
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
- 13 Feb 26
How to Implement a dotAI Site Search Widget in dotCMS (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step guide to implementing a dotAI site search widget in dotCMS. Learn how to create secure API tokens, configure VTL files, add AI-powered search to pages, and customize indexes for better content discovery.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
- 13 Feb 26
Building Your Corner of the Web: Discovering dotAI
Learn to configure and implement dotAI in your dotCMS environment for enhanced content creation, automation, and intelligent search functionality.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
- 2 Feb 26
Power Up Your Content Operations with dotAI
Stop drowning in metadata, translations, and tagging busywork—let dotAI handle the tedious stuff so your team can focus on what actually matters.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
Content Management
- 9 Mar 26
AI Content Governance for Content Teams: A Practical Framework
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
- 9 Mar 26
7 Business Benefits of Content Governance Done Right
Discover how strong content governance drives faster time to market, reduces compliance risk, and ensures brand consistency for compliance-led organizations managing content across dozens of sites.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
- 20 Feb 26
Content Style Editor: Visual Design Control Inside Your CMS
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
- 2 Feb 26
How to Choose a Multilingual Content Management System (CMS)
Discover how to select the best multilingual content management system (CMS) to enhance your global digital strategy. Learn about essential features, localization benefits, and how to maximize SEO, user engagement, and conversions.
Inna Bosenko
VP, Marketing
- 15 Jan 26
Intranet for Healthcare: 8 Key Benefits for Administrators
Healthcare organizations are outgrowing static intranets and scattered file systems. A modern, governance-first intranet helps administrators centralize policies, streamline communication, and maintain compliance across hospitals, clinics, and regions.
Product
- 3 Mar 26
Driving Content Innovation: Our 2026 Roadmap
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026
Freddy Montes
Product Manager
- 20 Feb 26
Content Style Editor: Visual Design Control Inside Your CMS
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
- 15 Jan 26
A UX-Driven Approach to Modernizing dotCMS
Modernizing a CMS isn’t about fixing what’s broken, it’s about leading its evolution. In this post, we share how dotCMS is taking a UX-led approach to future-proof the platform, aligning usability, scalability, and long-term product strategy to support what’s next.
- 11 Dec 25
2026 Engineering Update: Roadmap, Java 25, and Infrastructure Modernization
Announcing four upcoming modernization initiatives to the dotCMS platform: the full transition to an Evergreen release model, a major core upgrade to Java 25, migration from OpenSearch 1.x to 3.x, and the start of a journey to full IPv6 infrastructure.
- 26 Nov 25
How to fetch related content in dotCMS
Pulling related content in dotCMS shouldn't be complicated, yet developers often struggle choosing between GraphQL, REST APIs, or Velocity. We break down when to use each approach with real examples and practical decision criteria.
All posts
- 9 Mar 26AI in CMS
AI Content Governance for Content Teams: A Practical Framework
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
- 9 Mar 26Content Management
7 Business Benefits of Content Governance Done Right
Discover how strong content governance drives faster time to market, reduces compliance risk, and ensures brand consistency for compliance-led organizations managing content across dozens of sites.
- 8 Mar 26Technical Guides
AI Search Made Easy
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
- 4 Mar 26Innovation
Java 25 is Here — Try It Today
Give your dotCMS a test drive on modern Java. Our new Java 25-based containers are live, easy to spin up with a single Docker command, and already showing faster startup, leaner memory use, and a stronger security footing. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to try the `java-25` images locally, what to expect from the upgrade, how to rebuild your plugins in a few minutes, and why we’re asking you to kick the tires now, long before Java 11 support sunsets.
- 3 Mar 26Innovation
Driving Content Innovation: Our 2026 Roadmap
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026