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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Making a Multisite in Pimcore

Each time you create a website, you need to take time to create the environment, install plugins, and configure all the other Pimcore settings. Moreover, we also need a hosting space, which means extra costs. This is an activity that we have to do each time we are going to create a website, but we would reduce the impact of this activity on each website creation.

For example, think about a scenario where a customer has 10 websites, maybe one for each brand of the company. With the digital exposure that each company has nowadays, it is a plausible use case. Even if we can create a bundle that can be used to port the common components between websites, having separate websites still involves overhead. From the user's point of view, having 10 different websites to admin is very hard to manage.

The solution for this common situation is still Pimcore itself. The Multisite feature lets us manage multiple websites in the same instance, reducing hosting...