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XP is very powerful and yet flexible. It is really fast, it scales. It's also a breeze to setup locally. That it is built and documented to be molded into your liking is something that helps us adopt it across a broad team of developers with different preferences. It's JavaScript core makes it just a matter of reading about the APIs to understand how things work. You can use the CMS for rendering, go hybrid (my preference), or all headless. The docs are solid and gets you up and running, the community is there to help. Enonic as a company feels more than willing to implement feature requests and bug fixes, its always been a very fast and pleasant communication with the core team. The core developers are active in the community, you get first-hand insights and advice. Frequent releases with each having a rather big impact for both editors and developers. A small but feature-full ecosystem, you'll find stuff on the market for most things you'll need. The Page Editor is nice, you edit parts of your page with drag-and-drop and editors love it. For developers the way you built apps feels solid, each file and folder has a meaning and you need to config next to nothing as long as you learn the structure. Enonic CLI is a great addition for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As all big platforms there's an overwhelming amount to understand and know about the platform to use it best. Feels like people tend to start using it in an odd way, making them gain less from the full potential. Docs can sometimes be too brief in some areas, or contain small errors that are hard to detect for the untrained eye. Getting expert developer help for longer times on the platform is very difficult. The Html-editor feels outdated where even Wordpress has been a smooth editing experience for many years, Content Studio's editor have very limited features in comparison. The Nashorn engine will be removed soon, it's been a pain point that everyone works around anyway. Also some long-missing features: you still can't do custom input types, custom html styles/classes in the editor, control where uploaded media goes, image handling is sub-optimal, can't schedule publishing of modified content, co-edit content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Enonic allocates an extended range pf digital experience tools that makes it easy to create and design websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Domain registration at Enonic is a bit expensive compared to Namesilo, but I point it via nameservers and DNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I was first introduced to Enonic XP7 when I was still attending Uni. The solution was easy to get into, as the stack uses languages and technology most are already familiar with.
Now, after having used XP for some years, I am still satisfied, and the product keeps on getting better. There's always something new and exciting getting released for their product, and I can't wait what the future of this product will be.
The staff at Enonic are easy to get in touch with, either on their forum or their Slack, and the community helps each other out with issues and problem solving.
I have briefly used similar CMS solutions, like Optimizely (formerly Episerver). They ship out a robust product, which is too grand from the start. XP on the other hand, takes less than a day to learn and begin developing in, without any unnecessary overhang. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As with everything, XP is not perfect.
The company and product have existed for years, yet some areas it's not as polished as one would expect it to be. I do miss having more restrictions on parts - how many are allowed on a page, or in which area you're allowed to place some, but not others. Also, there's a lack of configurability for the WYSIWYG-editor. I have found areas where I'd love to add custom fonts or styling to text, yet not being able to add new, just alter the existing ones. One solution of course would be inserting macros, but that's not the perfect solution to possibly inexperienced editors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the flexibility of the Enonic. You can choose from several approaches how to use the system. We, for example, take advantage of the Headless CMS, where our client part is created in Angular. The definitions of the content structures are entirely in our hands and can describe both simple and very complex data.
I like the market which Enonic offers, where are many useful plugins and projects prepared for downloading. I also like the Guillotine query editor which is provided by Enonic and where you can tune your GraphQL queries.
One of the real benefits is the Enonic support, which is always very fast and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We would appreciate setting the specific access rules to specific editors in Content Studio. Some people are responsible for a part of the content, but we cannot give them access only to the data they need to edit.
Sometimes the Enonic documentation is out of date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the UX which anyone with a tad of prior experience from blog systems and wordpress-like systems will reckognize. Important for an organization like ours that it is offered in Norwegian. That helps our editors a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I would like for it to scale traffic peaks on the servers better. Also it could be better at differentiating user levels, restrictions and access. We have a multi layered organization and need to use a different system to manage user access and authentication. I would urge Enonic to find solutions to hide or disable read only content from the cms. I understand that this may be an option in some content project, but has not been installed/developed on our site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've been using Enonic for close to a year now. From what I've experienced, I've seen a lot of capabilities. Everything that I needed to implement I have found a clean way to do, and when not natively, you can implement a Java extension to do what is required. It's an excellent and versatile development experience.
One really nice thing is that the support through Discuss forum and Slack works very well, and you talk directly to the skilled and friendly people who are developing the features.
The last thing that is worth mentioning is that the learning curve is not high. The idea of development is a bit unique, but once you understand it through the documentation, you can become productive with Enonic relatively fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- The docummentation is well written, but IMHO I believe that there is space to improve it with more examples;
- The community is not huge since It's not a wide known technology yet;
- There isn't a lot of apps in the Enonic market; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It´s easy to get the hang of Enonic XP. As a content editor, you get a sense of endless possibilities. You can use templates or build pages by drag-and-drop. Together with a good developer, you can make almost anything. In addition, there are several useful apps on Enonic market.
We use Enonic XP for our relatively small web platform and look forward to scaling up in the future.
I like:
- Issues management
- Image handling
- Version comparison
Also, the team at Enonic is fast to respond, polite, and always very thorough. You get in contact with them and the rest of the community through Slack and the user forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Some of the apps on Enonic market is quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Users can manage their own content for their website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No standard way to implement certain things, little example code or explenation from libraries which are not standard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Enonic is easy to set up, administrate, and easy to learn for new content editors.
It has a lot of flexibility and is fast to update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is still not possible to schedule already published content for changes. It would be great to be able to hide certain functionality, especially for content editors with few and very specific tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Adding new functionality to a site is quick and easy. XP makes for a flexible content tool, and allows us to build solid websites with a high level of self-reliance in our editorial staff. It integrates well with existing ecosystems. Having close ties with the developers and a short feedback loop is very valuable to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Using modern javascript tooling is possible but sometimes clumsy. We have React components working, and we use Typescript, Webpack, Babel, etc, but there is some overhead to the build pipeline. Build times are very fast out of the box, but after adding all the necessary layers needed to get these features working, we see increased wait times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The layer structure fits our international company structure well and fuels collaboration between content departments.
On the developer side I find that we have solutions to almost all of our wants and needs and it's well integrated with our visual profile.
I like the overall flexibility; from working with tags for our content, tasks between content editors, the site and search function are super fast, moving and sharing content. As a content editor the platform works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The layer structure makes all the pages from the parent page visible on the "child" pages. I know that they're working on a fix for this in a release coming soon.
I also miss Digital Assets Management, even though our developers have developed a similar function through the layer function which works almost just as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
