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Insights and best practices to help you plan, create, and manage content that connects with your audience.
- 9 Mar 26
AI Content Governance for Content Teams: A Practical Framework
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
- 9 Mar 26
7 Business Benefits of Content Governance Done Right
Discover how strong content governance drives faster time to market, reduces compliance risk, and ensures brand consistency for compliance-led organizations managing content across dozens of sites.
- 8 Mar 26
AI Search Made Easy
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
- 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.
- 3 Mar 26
Driving Content Innovation: Our 2026 Roadmap
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026
- 1 Mar 26
Headless dotCMS Quick Start : Introducing dotCMS create app CLI
Learn how to bootstrap a headless CMS project with Next.js using @dotcms/create-app CLI. Skip documentation overload and render your first content in minutes.
- 20 Feb 26
Content Style Editor: Visual Design Control Inside Your CMS
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
- 13 Feb 26
How to Implement a dotAI Site Search Widget in dotCMS (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step guide to implementing a dotAI site search widget in dotCMS. Learn how to create secure API tokens, configure VTL files, add AI-powered search to pages, and customize indexes for better content discovery.
- 13 Feb 26
Building Your Corner of the Web: Discovering dotAI
Learn to configure and implement dotAI in your dotCMS environment for enhanced content creation, automation, and intelligent search functionality.
- 10 Feb 26
DXP vs CMS in 2026
Choosing between a DXP and a CMS is not about labels. It is about finding the right balance of experience capabilities, governance, and cost for your enterprise. This guide breaks down the DXP vs CMS landscape, compares leading platforms, and explains why many organizations land in the middle with an enterprise CMS approach.
- 5 Feb 26
Debugging dotCMS: A Practical Checklist (Logs, Cache, API Playground, Network)
Debugging dotCMS is less about panic and more about knowing where to look. This guide walks through the most reliable places to check when something feels off, confusing, or just plain stubborn.
- 2 Feb 26
How to Choose a Multilingual Content Management System (CMS)
Discover how to select the best multilingual content management system (CMS) to enhance your global digital strategy. Learn about essential features, localization benefits, and how to maximize SEO, user engagement, and conversions.