Craft CMS Developers

Why we ❤️ Craft CMS

Craft’s out-of-the-box custom field types, content structures, easy-to-use control panel for content editors and elegant templating for developers make it one of the most powerful and flexible content management systems on the market.

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  Our clients love it

  Our clients tell us how simple and easy that Craft is just about every time we launch a new website. Before Craft, we were complimented on the websites we built, now we’re complimented on the websites we build and the CMS that we build them on. Clients handing out CMS specific praises was virtually unheard of before Craft. Now it’s a regular occurrence. If you want the ability to do more with your websites and are tired of security hacks and other CMS shortfalls; Craft has a wide range of features for your next website development project.

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  A thriving development community

  With over 180 official Craft Partners and thousands of developers around the globe, Craft CMS currently powers over 70,000 websites and is far from proprietary.

  • StackExchange: 8,200+ members, Craft’s Stack Exchange Q&A site is where developers get help and help others with Craft CMS questions.
  • Discord: 4,900+ members, the official online community and chat room for Craft CMS developers.
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  Content flexibility

  Rather than having one generic ​“entry” content type like most CMS platforms, Craft CMS breaks entries into three different categories, or ​“Sections” as they call them: ​“Singles”, ​“Channels” and ​“Structures”.

  Singles

  Singles are for one-off pages like a homepage or about page. This feature is small but it’s a crowd favorite. Historically, content managing one-off pages has been slightly awkward and with Craft CMS it makes perfect sense.

  Channels

  Channels are for repeatable content like news, blog posts or even an A-Z dictionary — content that’s usually ordered by date or even alphabetically.

  Structures

  Structures are for repeatable content that you want to control the order of. Think employees on a team page, or maybe a list of services on your service page. Once you wrap your head around this, it’s a huge selling point for Craft CMS.

  Globals

  Craft also has ​“Globals”, a place to store content that doesn’t quite fit into an entry type. Globals are used for content like primary phone numbers, your company address or even social media links. These snippets of content might be used a few times throughout your website but don’t necessarily belong to a particular page or entry.

  Custom field types

  Lastly, the Craft CMS field types, specifically Matrix Fields, allow you to manage complex, editorial style pages without the need for coding. Here’s a complete list of Craft CMS field types. There are also plenty of custom fields available in the Craft Plugin Store.

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  Live preview

  Right out-of-the-box, Craft’s live preview feature is second to none. It’s important for content editors to see the effects of their content changes before going live, and live preview allows you to do just that, in real time, directly from Craft’s control panel.

  View an extensive list of Craft’s features at http://​craftcms​.com/​f​e​a​tures

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  A premium platform with an open source foundation

  Craft is built on mature open source frameworks like Yii and Twig, and is extensible through plugins as needed. Yii is a fast, secure and professional PHP framework that launched in December 2008, and Twig is an elegant templating language for PHP that came out shortly after in 2009.

  This makes Craft unique in that we’re getting the foundation of mature open source frameworks packaged into a premium, paid product. It’s important to note that this also makes Craft extensible if need be to a wider development community than just Craft developers.

  So, for the unique situations that Craft doesn’t handle out-of-the-box, we can create custom plugins or purchase them from the official Craft Plugin Store.

  Learn more about Craft CMS.

Developer resources & tutorials

If you’re a web developer looking to dig into Craft, here are a few useful links to get you started.