Give marketers control without adding to the developer backlog. dotCMS's drag-and-drop Universal Visual Editor lets teams create, edit, and manage pages themselves, whether content is delivered traditionally or headlessly.
The result: faster launches and more output from lean marketing teams, without adding headcount.
dotCMS pairs NoCode capabilities for marketers with an API-first infrastructure for developers. Every capability below removes a step that used to require a developer, so your team ships more on the same headcount.
Build the pages you need when you need them, without relying on developers.
Create and edit page layouts yourself with an intuitive drag-and-drop designer. Arrange rows and columns, apply classes and styles, and build rich content blocks with ease.
Make changes while editing content inline, allowing you to see changes in real time.
Quickly update content, add sections, change links, and more, all while editing the content in the context of the page - without needing to switch tools or submit a request to your developer.
Create content once and reuse it across sites and channels—so your team can update it in one place instead of managing the same content multiple times.
Build the pages you need when you need them, without relying on developers.
Create and edit page layouts yourself with an intuitive drag-and-drop designer. Arrange rows and columns, apply classes and styles, and build rich content blocks with ease.
Make changes while editing content inline, allowing you to see changes in real time.
Quickly update content, add sections, change links, and more, all while editing the content in the context of the page - without needing to switch tools or submit a request to your developer.
Create content once and reuse it across sites and channels—so your team can update it in one place instead of managing the same content multiple times.
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Yes. In the dotCMS Universal Visual Editor, marketers add, arrange, and edit page content themselves. They drag content from the Content Palette onto the page, reorder rows and columns in the Layers panel, and update common fields in the Quick Edit panel. What can go where is set by the page's containers and content types, which your team sets up in advance.
Yes. The dotCMS Universal Visual Editor gives marketers the same editing tools on a remote site or app as on a page dotCMS renders itself. Headless front ends connect through the dotCMS SDK, which has rendering libraries for React and Angular. Developers on other frameworks can build their own on the @dotcms/uve library. One dotCMS instance can serve different front ends for different URL path patterns.
Yes, when the page's approval workflow requires it. In the dotCMS Universal Visual Editor, the Workflow button shows only the workflow actions that apply, based on the workflow assigned to the page's content type, the step the page is at, and your permissions. An author whose role can't publish won't be offered a publish action
Yes, the Universal Visual Editor's Page Health panel includes a GEO scanner that scores a page from 0 to 100 on how ready it is to be discovered, cited, and surfaced by AI answer engines such as Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini, as well as traditional search. The score comes from 20 signal checks across citability, structured knowledge, content authority, and discoverability. An accessibility scanner audits the rendered page against WCAG 2.1 AA. Self-hosted dotCMS instances get the panel's links to third-party tools instead of the built-in scanners.
Yes. Preview mode in the dotCMS Universal Visual Editor shows the draft page on desktop, tablet, and mobile, in horizontal or vertical orientation. The editor also switches between the page's language versions and persona versions, and previews how the page looks in social media links and search results.
Yes. In the dotCMS Universal Visual Editor, the Future Time Machine lets you pick a date and view the version of the page scheduled for it. It works for content types that have a publish date field configured.
Yes, within the options your team defines. The dotCMS Content Style Editor lets authors choose style properties for individual pieces of content directly in the Universal Visual Editor, on both traditional and headless pages. The available styles are set per content type, and once that is configured, restyling needs no code.
Yes. The dotCMS Universal Visual Editor toolbar includes the page's rules, which drive personalization, and its experiments for A/B testing, so both are set up where the page is built. Experiments are off by default and are turned on through the Analytics App with dotCMS Customer Success.
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