API-FIRST CMS
Unlock the Power of Headless CMS
Dynamic digital experiences are possible with dotCMS’s powerful APIs, unmatched flexibility, and enterprise-grade security. Your marketing and editorial teams won’t have to rely on IT to seamlessly create, manage, and publish content, and you’ll scale effortlessly to meet growing business needs.
How It Works
Create, update, and retrieve content and assets with ease. Pull personalized content to deliver amazing experiences across devices.
Content Modeling
Content Modeling
It all starts with the content model. Our drag-n-drop UI allows you to quickly build rich content with all content types including text, location, dates, media, rich text editor, snippets, relationships and more.
JSON Data
JSON Data
Marketers and business users can create and manage layouts and templates in a full editorial environment and deliver as JSON to any device or application.
Presentation Layer
Presentation Layer
New devices and touch points are emerging all the time. Our content as infrastructure philosophy allows you to be ready for whatever comes next.
Key Benefits of dotCMS Headless CMS
Not all headless solutions are made equal. Using dotCMS headlessly can bring organizations tremendous value by providing several benefits, such as:
Developer Flexibility
Headless CMS solutions are API-driven and framework-agnostic. Developers can choose how they deliver the front-end of their website or app, using whichever front-end framework makes sense for their projects. They have the freedom to tailor experiences based on the channel, whether it’s for web, mobile, IoT, AR/VR, or other emerging technologies. Developers may also use their preferred programming language or technology to design the front-end and presentation layer. The overall benefit of this flexibility is being able to completely customize the user experience.
Scalability
Scaling content and managing traffic has proven to be difficult for small businesses and large corporations without suitable resources. dotCMS’s headless CMS platform allows businesses to successfully handle an influx of content and traffic without compromising content creation. Additionally, our platform enables users to conveniently scale across different regions, use cases, and campaigns. This feature aims to optimize customizable content and ensure it reaches appropriate audiences at desired times.
Omnichannel Delivery
Content creators, content editors, and developers are encouraged to work together to produce high-quality work. Our headless CMS offerings can publish this work anywhere in real-time using APIs, instead of being tightly coupled with a single frontend presentation layer. Users can easily deliver content across all channels, such as websites, web applications, AR/VR, voice UI, digital signage, and more.
Core Features at a Glance
dotCMS is dedicated to making managing content and sharing it across multiple channels easy with advanced headless CMS solutions. The features of our content management system include:
Universal Visual Editor (UVE)
This feature allows users to make changes to content in a WYSIWYG editor-like experience, even if they are rendered with JavaScript frameworks. With this tool, users can edit pages on remote web apps and headless websites, further simplifying visual editing for headless content.
Content Modeling
Content modeling refers to breaking down content into types, defining their attributes, and understanding how they relate to each other. This feature helps ensure that content is consistent and meets the organization's needs. It can also help improve the user experience, save time and effort, and prevent mistakes.
With a headless CMS from dotCMS, your content is stored and managed separately from how it's presented to users, helping to structure and validate content.
Multi-Tenant Support
Users can manage multiple sites/applications with different frontend frameworks using our headless CMS. This architecture is useful for managing content for multiple tenants, each with its own isolated authoring environment.
Frontend Framework Support
This feature allows users to use their preferred framework or library to create a website's visual structure, such as React, Angular, Vue.js, and others. The flexibility in choosing a development tech stack further enhances customization opportunities for a more unified user interface.
REST API
The REST API feature of our headless CMS provides a way for users to access and update work in a content repository. This feature provides users full control over asset management, layouts, workflows, and content through the API with compact JSON. This speaks directly to developers who need robust and flexible API-first architecture.
Multilingual Support
Businesses that operate on a global scale or that accommodate customers in different parts of the world can publish content in multiple languages with granular localization support.
APIs
dotCMS includes native REST APIs which enable you to create, read, and manage almost all types of objects within the dotCMS system through a RESTful interface.
Get Inspired
Discover how technical teams have leveraged dotCMS
dotCMS Helps CarFinance 247 Speed Into the Modern Era
CarFinance 247 is one of the largest car finance brokers in the UK. With dotCMS’ help, they updated their outdated website and made it easier for marketers to update content without getting developer assistance.
Before dotCMS, we were wasting a small team of developers on website maintenance. With dotCMS Cloud, we have completely freed up our development team and no longer have to worry about bandwidth, security, upgrades and patches-- dotCMS takes care of all that.