Why choose CraftCMS?

What do content editors enjoy about CraftCMS?

Our clients love creating content using the intuitive, user-friendly control panel. The feature-rich interface allows content editors to manage and publish content efficiently without technical expertise.

Live Preview

Content editors can preview their changes in real-time, ensuring that the final output matches their expectations. This feature in particular always wows clients the first time they see it. They can see exactly how their content is rendered in the browser as they create.

Versioning

Craft automatically tracks changes to content, allowing editors to revert to previous versions if needed, providing a safety net and peace of mind. Editors can save drafts, and also name them for future recall. Furthermore, the Craft system keeps track of any changes made to live entries while drafts are in progress. It allows editors to dynamically merge the latest live content into their workflow before they publish. .

Image Editing

Built-in image editing tools allow for basic image manipulation without needing external software. What’s more, Craft comes with a unique focal-point editor that allows editors to specify the focal point of images before they’re cropped by the system for frontend display.. This helps ensure that images displayed on the website are always perfectly cropped. No more team photos with heads clipped off at the top!

Workflow

Unlike most content management platforms, Craft comes with simple workflow features out-of-the-box. Editors can share obfuscated links to draft content  prior to publishing. This makes the whole share and approval process much more efficient.

Custom interfaces

When we build CraftCMS websites for our clients, we always customise the interface for each section and entry-type. If required, we add short  instructions and helpful tips using the Craft field layout designer. This is particularly helpful for new users familiarising themselves with the CMS. It also reduces ongoing CMS training requirements.

Performance and speed

The Craft admin is blazing fast! A number of our clients have moved away from slow, bloated, theme-based sites that take forever to load and are a chore to manage, especially when under time-pressure to publish fresh content.

What do IT departments like about CraftCMS?

CraftCMS is renowned for being a secure platform with an excellent track record when it comes to security.

Open source codebase

The CraftCMS codebase is open-source and  is reviewed regularly by third-party security researchers. They manually inspect the code and also use automated audit tools. Teh developers of CraftCMS also work with security experts to  learn about  and adapt to new attack vectors.

CraftCMS security incidents are rare. However, as seasoned CraftCMS developers we like to keep track of any security-related incidents and improvements. We are notified of any security advisories or critical releases as they are published. We then roll out any required updates to our maintenance clients to keep their websites and systems secure.

CraftCMS 5, the latest and greatest version  takes security to the next level. The platform now includes enhanced security protocols, built-in data encryption, and improved measures to combat vulnerabilities.

Key security features of CraftCMS include: parameterised queries to prevent SQL injection attacks, CSRF token validation to prevent CSRF attacks, Rich text field HTML purifier to strip potentially malicious code, mcrypt and blowfish password hashing for password encryption. There are many more security features documented in the CraftCMS security FAQ.

Why do marketers choose CraftCMS?

Marketers are choosing CraftCMS for a variety of reasons.

Flexible content modelling

Craft’s content-first approach with flexible content modelling allows marketers to structure content in a way that makes sense for their campaigns and strategies.  This enables them to create diverse content types and tailor the presentation to different channels and audiences.

SEO Friendly features

Craft CMS offers built-in SEO features and seamless integration with popular SEO plugins like SEOmatic. This enables marketers to optimise their content for search engines, improve visibility, and drive organic traffic. Seomatic is our goto plugin for CraftCMS SEO. We install and configure it with dynamic sitemaps, open graph tags, tracking scripts, robots.txt, custom HTML meta tags, global SEO defaults, with additional options to customise the SEO  for each entry if required.

Speed and performance 

For marketers focussed on conversion, CraftCMS is the ideal platform. The CraftCMS architecture is efficient by default. However, it can also be supercharged with another of our goto plugins Blitz cache.  It provides static page caching for lightning-fast CraftCMS sites with near instant pageloads. These days, speed and reliability is really important for marketers, especially when it comes to Google Search console performance and a website's core web vitals scores. CraftCMs and Blitz cache can help improve google pagespeed scores that in turn help improve a website’s performance in Google’s search index.

Headless CMS

CraftCMS can be configured as a headless CMS. Content can be published via the graphQL API to any front-end framework. This allows marketers to distribute their content to more channels, maximising reach. Examples can be microsites, landing pages, mobile apps, social media platforms and content aggregators, newsletters, digital signage, IOT devices among others.

CraftCMS is a versatile and powerful CMS that is well-suited for a wide range of users and applications. Its combination of user-friendliness, security, and flexibility makes it a popular choice for businesses of all sizes.

Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in exploring CraftCMS for your next project.  We can discuss your requirements and demonstrate how it can benefit your organisation.