dotCMS is an open source headless/hybrid content management system (CMS) that has been designed to manage and deliver personalized, permission-based content experiences across multiple channels.
- Open Source - available in both Community (GPL3) and Enterprise Editions
- REST & GraphQL APIs - instant endpoints for your all your content
- Visual Editing - Full featured page editing that works headlessly, in your SPA or for traditional page delivery
- Search Built in - dotCMS indexes all content and assets in Elasticsearch for real time search-abiliity.
- Personalization, Rules & A/B Testing - Empower your marketing teams with targeting and content optimizations.
- Cloud, Cloud Anywhere or Self-Hosted - Flexiable deployment works with your IT/cloud strategies.
- Feature Rich - Custom content workflows, scriptable APIs, push and static publishing, custom roles and permissions, osgi based plugin architecture. Do more with more.
dotCMS can can serve as a content hub and also as a platform for sites, mobile apps, mini-sites, portals, intranets. dotCMS is used everywhere, from running small sites to powering multi-node installations for governments, Fortune 100 companies, Universities and Global Brands. dotCMS can scale to support hundreds of editors managing thousands of sites with millions of content objects.
dotCMS is available as a docker image or as a cloud based product.
dotCMS comes in multiple editions and as such is dual licensed. The dotCMS Community Edition is licensed under the GPL 3.0 and is freely available for download, customization and deployment for use within organizations of all stripes. dotCMS Enterprise Editions (EE) adds a number of enterprise features and is available via a supported, indemnified commercial license from dotCMS. For the differences between the editions, see the feature page.
GitHub pull requests are the preferred method to contribute code to dotCMS. Before any pull requests can be accepted, an automated tool will ask you to agree to the dotCMS Contributor's Agreement.
For a complete list of requirements, see this page.
| Source | Location |
|---|---|
| Installation | Installation |
| Documentation | Documentation |
| Videos | Helpful Videos |
| Merge Queue | Merge Queue |
| Forums/Listserv | via Google Groups |
| @dotCMS | |
| Main Site | dotCMS.com |
