
Craft CMS Developers
Our expert team of web developers design and develop websites using the Craft content management system on a daily basis — we are a Craft Verified Partner and it’s our go-to CMS of choice.
We’ve built 100+ Craft CMS websites
Whether you want to develop a new Craft CMS website from scratch, or need ongoing support for an existing website, our team of Craft developers is here to help.
“Good Work’s passion and talents are undeniable, and their team is staffed with those ready to help at a moment’s notice with empathy and understanding.”
— Leif Brostrom, PBS
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Deep Craft CMS Expertise
A few quick highlights about our Craft CMS expertise.
- We have worked with Craft CMS since 2012
- We are a Craft Verified Partner
- We have 7 full-time Craft CMS developers
- We regularly speak and write on the subject
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 to use Craft is nearly every time we launch a new website. While we've always been complimented on the website we build, we now receive praise on the CMS 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, look no further than Craft and its extensive list of features for your next website development project.
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A thriving development community
With over 200 official Craft Partners and thousands of developers around the globe, Craft CMS currently powers over 80,000 websites and is far from proprietary.
- StackExchange: 9,400+ members, Craft’s Stack Exchange Q&A site is where developers get help and help others with Craft CMS questions.
- Discord: 6,300+ 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, and while it's a small feature, 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 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.
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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 can'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.
The history of Craft CMS
Craft CMS is the brainchild of Pixel & Tonic, a software development company based out of Bend, Oregon founded by Brandon Kelly. Originally the creators of premium ExpressionEngine add-ons such as Matrix, Playa and Wygwam, Pixel & Tonic set out to build a new CMS in the Fall of 2010 (originally called "Blocks"). As of June 2021, there are over 80,000 websites running Craft CMS.
Craft is a content-first CMS that aims to make life enjoyable for developers and content managers alike.
— craftcms.com
Craft won the Best CMS for Developers award by CMSCritics, and it was voted Best CMS for Small to Midsize Business and Best WordPress Alternative in CMSCritic’s People’s Choice Awards, among many other awards. Today, Craft powers websites of all shapes and sizes, including forward-thinking household names like Netflix, PBS, Sonos, Ikea and the Associated Press.
The team at Pixel & Tonic adds new features, improvements and bug fixes on a weekly basis. View the Craft changlelog for up-to-date release statistics.
Craft CMS dates & milestones
- 2010
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Development of Craft (“Blocks”) started shortly after Greg Woods talk on editorial design on the web at EECI 2010 in San Francisco
- November 13, 2012
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Craft Public Beta launched
- June 4, 2013
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Craft 1.0 launched
- April 1, 2014
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Craft 2.0 launched (not an April Fools joke)
- December 1, 2015
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Craft Commerce 1.0 launched
- January 31, 2017
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Craft 3 Public Beta was announced, and the official 3.0 release should launch sometime in 2017 / early 2018
- December 5, 2017
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Craft 3 Release Candidate was announced
- April 4, 2018
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Craft 3.0 launched
- January 15, 2019
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Craft Commerce 2.0 launched
- September 19, 2019
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Craft 4 and Craft Cloud announced at Dot All 2019
- January 28, 2020
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Craft Commerce 3.0 launched
- August 4, 2020
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Craft 3.5 official release
- January 26, 2021
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Craft 3.6 official release
Developer resources & tutorials
If you’re a web developer looking to dig into Craft, here are a few useful links to get you started.
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Awesome Craft CMS
Created by one of our own, this is the official curated list of awesome Craft CMS articles, resources and other shiny things
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The Good Work Blog
Articles and videos for people who make and manage Craft websites
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Craft Link List
Craft CMS links and news delivered directly to your inbox
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Mijingo Craft CMS tutorials
Get up and running with Ryan Irelan’s epic Craft tutorials
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Straight Up Craft
Articles, plugin marketplace and resources
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Craft CMS Stack Exchange
Community run Q&A and support
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Craft Cookbook
A collection of task-oriented recipes for commonly used Craft CMS scenarios
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You can also join the Discord group and find local community meetups on the Craft CMS Community page.