Build with dotCMS

dotCMS empowers marketers, developers, and DevOps teams to create, manage, and deliver content-driven experiences across all digital channels.

Developers

Access powerful SDKs and APIs to build custom integrations and extend dotCMS functionality.

Content Teams

Create and manage content types, draft and publish content, and control the admin panel with ease

Content Types

Adding and Editing Content

Using the Block Editor

Page Editor

Experiments and A/B Testing

DevOps

Optimize performance, enhance security, and leverage CDN capabilities for seamless content delivery.

Performance Tuning

System Requirements

Docker

CDN

Configuration Best Practices

DEVELOPING

Build with the framework you want!

Choose how you want to build with dotCMS — using a headless approach with modern frameworks or server-side rendering with full features templating.

Headless Development

Prefer a decoupled approach? Use dotCMS's headless CMS with SDKs to build modern, scalable apps while managing content centrally.

React

Next.js Javascript SDK

Server Side Templating

Take advantage of dotCMS's powerful templating engine to build your site directly within the CMS. With Velocity, the frontend lives alongside the backend, making it easier to manage your content and templates in one unified platform.

Velocity Scripting Velocity User's Guide Velocity Developer's Playground

API & Playgrounds

Don't worry, they're not complex. Use our developer-friendly REST APIs to manage content, assets, and workflows programmatically across your digital ecosystem.

Get started with dotCMS REST APIs

GraphQL Playground

Interactive GraphQL query editor and schema explorer

REST API Playground

Test and explore REST API endpoints in real-time

Image API Playground

Experiment with image transformations and optimizations

Authentication

Authorization:

Bearer <your-api-token>

Request Body

{
  "contentType": "Blog",
  "title": "Getting Started with dotCMS",
  "author": "John Doe",
  "status": "PUBLISHED"
}

RESOURCES

Want to know more?

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Troubleshooting Headless Universal Visual Editor integrations

Integrating dotCMS’s Universal Visual Editor (UVE) into a headless application? This guide covers common issues like API errors, CORS restrictions, and editable region configurations, providing practical solutions for a seamless editing experience.

Dynamic Logging in dotCMS: Enhancing Runtime Flexibility

Logging is an integral part of any enterprise-grade platform, and dotCMS is no exception. dotCMS introduced the capability to dynamically change logging levels at runtime using a REST API.

dotCMS Quick Start Guide for Developers

Are you a developer who's new to dotCMS? This day-one quick start guide is for you! It covers everything you should know as you get started developing with the platform.

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