HEADLESS CMS
Build Headlessly, Edit Visually
Run your entire digital ecosystem with freedom and control. With a multi-tenant, tech-agnostic architecture and powerful visual editing tools, dotCMS empowers technical and content teams alike to build, manage, and optimize content globally, on any stack, and at any scale - without compromise.
The Modern Headless CMS
What Makes dotCMS Headless + Visual
A Headless CMS separates your content from the presentation layer, enabling fast front-end development on the framework of your choice.
dotCMS goes further. With our Visual Headless approach, your development teams get all the flexibility of headless while still allowing content teams intuitive, no-code control.
Visual Editing Meets API-First Architecture
- Universal Visual Editor: Drag-and-drop layouts, live preview, and in-context editing — no IT tickets required.
- API Everything: RESTful and GraphQL APIs for content, layout, search, and assets.
- Freedom to Build: Use any front-end framework. Empower development teams to move fast.
Build once. Use anywhere.
Built-In Governance & Compliance
- Granular Permissions: Role-based controls down to the component level.
- Multi-step Workflows: Approvals and reviews tailored to your organization.
- Audit Trails & Version History: Every action, documented.
Eliminate risk — without slowing down
Enterprise Scalability
- Multi-Tenancy: Isolate sites, brands, or regions — all from a single platform.
- Flexible Deployment: Cloud, On-Prem, or Cloud as a Service (CaaS).
- Composable by Nature: Integrate with your DAM, PIM, analytics, and more.
From 10 sites to 1,000+
Faster Time to Market
- Shared Content & Templates: Reuse across teams and sites.
- CI/CD Ready: Use dotCLI to support automated builds and deployments.
- Built-In Personalization: Deliver tailored experiences at scale.
Launch digital experiences in days, not months
Platform Capabilities
Everything You Need to Build, Scale, and Manage Content
dotCMS gives your teams the tools to model content, support any front-end, automate workflows, manage governance, and scale globally - all from a single platform.
Content Modeling
Content modeling helps you define content types, their attributes, and how they relate, ensuring consistency and efficiency. With dotCMS, your content stays structured and reusable, making it easier to manage, validate, and deliver across any channel.
Front-End Framework Support
Build with the framework that fits your project best, whether it's React, Angular, Vue.js, or something else. dotCMS gives developers the freedom to create a fully customized front-end while ensuring a seamless, unified user experience.
APIs & Webhooks
dotCMS’s REST and GraphQL APIs gives developers full control over content, assets, workflows, and layouts, all through a flexible, API-first architecture. With compact JSON responses, it's easy to access, update, and manage content programmatically, making integration seamless across any tech stack.
Universal Visual Editor (UVE)
Edit content visually, even on JavaScript-rendered pages. dotCMS’s Universal Visual Editor (UVE) brings a true WYSIWYG experience to headless content, allowing non-technical users to edit pages on remote web apps and headless websites without needing help from a developer.
Multi-Tenant Support
Easily manage multiple sites, applications, and brands from one platform. dotCMS’s multi-tenant architecture lets you handle separate content environments with different front-end frameworks while keeping everything organized in a single CMS.
Multilingual Support
Deliver content in any language with dotCMS’s built-in localization tools. Whether you're expanding globally or personalizing content for different regions, you can manage translations and create a more engaging experience for all your audiences.
Headless CMS Resource Center
Learn what’s new, what’s next and what’s possible with dotCMS
Your go-to resources for the latest headless content strategies, insights and guides.
Headless CMS Resources
- 4 Mar 26
Java 25 is Here — Try It Today
Give your dotCMS a test drive on modern Java. Our new Java 25-based containers are live, easy to spin up with a single Docker command, and already showing faster startup, leaner memory use, and a stronger security footing. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to try the `java-25` images locally, what to expect from the upgrade, how to rebuild your plugins in a few minutes, and why we’re asking you to kick the tires now, long before Java 11 support sunsets.
Where compliance meets innovation
Success stories from teams building what’s next
Real teams. Real outcomes. Explore how organizations modernized their digital stacks, reduced operational load, and delivered better customer experiences with dotCMS.
dotCMS Helps CarFinance 247 Speed Into the Modern Era
CarFinance 247 is one of the largest car finance brokers in the UK. With dotCMS’ help, they updated their outdated website and made it easier for marketers to update content without getting developer assistance.
Before dotCMS, we were wasting a small team of developers on website maintenance. With dotCMS Cloud, we have completely freed up our development team and no longer have to worry about bandwidth, security, upgrades and patches-- dotCMS takes care of all that.