dotCMS is the leading Universal content management system powering thousands of digital experiences for over 150 customers worldwide.
With powerful visual editing tools, multi-tenancy and a tech-agnostic architecture dotCMS empowers technical and content teams to collaborate efficiently and deliver content globally, on any stack, and at any scale.
- BSL Licensed - Generous BSL 1.1 licensing terms makes dotCMS free to use in many cases.
- Universal Visual Editing - Full featured page editing that works both headlessly and for SSR content, in your SPA or for web page rendering and delivery.
- Multi-tenancy - Manage multiple sites in multiple languages, from microsites to brand sites to intranet/extranets or knowledge centers all from a single instance.
- REST & GraphQL APIs - instant endpoints for your all your content
- Search & RAG Built in - dotCMS indexes all content and assets in Elasticsearch for real time search-abiliity and facet based searches. dotCMS can also vectorize all content and assets, offering semantic content searching to power AI applications such as chatbots or knowledge centers.
- Personalization, Rules & A/B Testing - Empower your marketing teams with targeting and content optimizations.
- Cloud, Cloud Anywhere or Self-Hosted - Flexible 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 is available as a docker image or as a cloud based product.
dotCMS is licensed under the terms of the BSL 1.1 license and all features are free to use by companies, individuals and organizations whose total finances are below $5,000,000 USD. For more information about the BSL license terms, see the dotCMS BSL FAQ.
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 |