HEADLESS CMS

Build Headlessly, Edit Visually

Run your entire digital ecosystem with freedom and control. With a multi-tenant, tech-agnostic architecture and powerful visual editing tools, dotCMS empowers technical and content teams alike to build, manage, and optimize content globally, on any stack, and at any scale - without compromise.

dotCMS Headless Frameworks

The Modern Headless CMS

What Makes dotCMS Headless + Visual

A Headless CMS separates your content from the presentation layer, enabling fast front-end development on the framework of your choice.

dotCMS goes further. With our Visual Headless approach, your development teams get all the flexibility of headless while still allowing content teams intuitive, no-code control.

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Visual Editing Meets API-First Architecture

Universal Visual Editor: Drag-and-drop layouts, live preview, and in-context editing — no IT tickets required.
API Everything: RESTful and GraphQL APIs for content, layout, search, and assets.
Freedom to Build: Use any front-end framework. Empower development teams to move fast.

Build once. Use anywhere.

Built-In Governance & Compliance

Granular Permissions: Role-based controls down to the component level.
Multi-step Workflows: Approvals and reviews tailored to your organization.
Audit Trails & Version History: Every action, documented.

Eliminate risk — without slowing down

Enterprise Scalability

Multi-Tenancy: Isolate sites, brands, or regions — all from a single platform.
Flexible Deployment: Cloud, On-Prem, or Cloud as a Service (CaaS).
Composable by Nature: Integrate with your DAM, PIM, analytics, and more.

From 10 sites to 1,000+

Faster Time to Market

Shared Content & Templates: Reuse across teams and sites.
CI/CD Ready: Use dotCLI to support automated builds and deployments.
Built-In Personalization: Deliver tailored experiences at scale.

Launch digital experiences in days, not months

Platform Capabilities

Everything You Need to Build, Scale, and Manage Content

dotCMS gives your teams the tools to model content, support any front-end, automate workflows, manage governance, and scale globally - all from a single platform.

Content Modeling

Content modeling helps you define content types, their attributes, and how they relate, ensuring consistency and efficiency. With dotCMS, your content stays structured and reusable, making it easier to manage, validate, and deliver across any channel.

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Front-End Framework Support

Build with the framework that fits your project best, whether it's React, Angular, Vue.js, or something else. dotCMS gives developers the freedom to create a fully customized front-end while ensuring a seamless, unified user experience.

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APIs & Webhooks

dotCMS’s REST and GraphQL APIs gives developers full control over content, assets, workflows, and layouts, all through a flexible, API-first architecture. With compact JSON responses, it's easy to access, update, and manage content programmatically, making integration seamless across any tech stack.

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Universal Visual Editor (UVE)

Edit content visually, even on JavaScript-rendered pages. dotCMS’s Universal Visual Editor (UVE) brings a true WYSIWYG experience to headless content, allowing non-technical users to edit pages on remote web apps and headless websites without needing help from a developer.

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Multi-Tenant Support

Easily manage multiple sites, applications, and brands from one platform. dotCMS’s multi-tenant architecture lets you handle separate content environments with different front-end frameworks while keeping everything organized in a single CMS.

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Multilingual Support

Deliver content in any language with dotCMS’s built-in localization tools. Whether you're expanding globally or personalizing content for different regions, you can manage translations and create a more engaging experience for all your audiences.

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Headless CMS Resource Center

Learn what’s new, what’s next and what’s possible with dotCMS

Your go-to resources for the latest headless content strategies, insights and guides.

Headless CMS Resources

24 Mar 26
Migrating Your OSGi Plugins to dotEvergreen: Adapting to the New Index API
An update on infrastructural changes, information on a breaking change introduced that may affect some plugins, and a migration guide for those affected.
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.
4 Mar 26
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.
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.
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.

HEADLESS CMS

Build Headlessly, Edit Visually

The Modern Headless CMS

What Makes dotCMS Headless + Visual