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Craft CMS

From struggling with your CMS to publishing on your own.

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Three situations we encounter every day.

Why choose a Craft CMS partner?

  • Every content change goes through a developer

    A text change requires a support ticket and a three-day wait. As a result, your site lags behind what you actually want to say. In Craft, we build the content management system around how your editors work, so they can publish content themselves.

  • You’re fighting against your own CMS

    Your system dictates how your content looks instead of the other way around, so every exception becomes a detour. Craft doesn’t have a standard structure you have to work around: you build the model that fits your organization.

  • Your site relies on plugins that no one maintains anymore

    You’re running twenty plugins, three of which are no longer maintained, and no one dares to update them anymore. With fewer separate components and your own data model, you’ll have a system that will still be maintainable five years from now.

Craft as the engine behind your website

A website isn’t truly finished until the day you stop using it. Everything before that is ongoing development, and whether that goes smoothly depends on the system underneath.

Craft CMS is the engine that makes that possible. It doesn’t impose a structure, so your content follows your organization’s needs rather than a template. For editors, that means an admin interface that feels intuitive without needing a manual.

This site runs on it itself. That’s no coincidence: we prefer to build on a system we use every day and whose limitations we know.

What We Do with Craft

We start with the content model: which pages exist, which components are recurring, and who manages what. That model determines whether your site will scale with you in three years or whether you’ll have to start over, so we take our time with it.

Next, we build the front end and the integrations with your other systems, and we configure the admin interface to fit your editorial workflow. Roles, permissions, and previews are all part of this, because an editor who’s afraid to publish won’t use the system.

If you’re migrating from another CMS, we’ll transfer your content and your SEO value. The real work lies in rethinking the structure, not in the transfer itself.

Three organizations with websites that follow their own unique structure.

Our Work with Craft

  • Biemans

    Online B2B market leader in sports awards

  • Universiteit Utrecht x Eco Giving

    Implementation of an Omnichannel E-commerce Platform with Shopify

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Three things you’ll notice in our collaboration.

Why choose Redkiwi as your Craft CMS partner?

  • Your team publishes content on its own

    Your editors publish content themselves, without any intervention and without needing a manual. Every month, we go over what’s needed, and you decide what gets built. You stay in control; we make sure the system can support that.

  • Independent advice

    We’ll also advise against Craft if another system is a better fit. If you need an online store, you’ll end up with Shopify or Magento. Redkiwi partners with multiple systems and earns nothing from that choice.

  • We use it ourselves

    This site runs on Craft and is managed by the same team that builds your site. We know the system’s limitations because we encounter them every day. You’ll work with a dedicated specialist who knows your platform.

Frequently Asked Questions About Craft CMS

01/ What makes Craft CMS different from WordPress?
Craft is a blank canvas: there’s no default structure you have to work around. You build the content model that fits your organization. That requires more thought at the start but results in a management environment where your editors can work without a manual.
02/ Can I migrate my existing site to Craft?
Yes, including the content and SEO value. Most of the work isn’t in the transfer itself but in rethinking your structure, because you’d rather not carry over a model that evolved alongside an old system.
03/ Can Craft CMS work in headless mode?
Yes. Craft delivers your content via an API to a separate front end, such as Next.js. Whether that’s a good idea depends on your situation: it offers freedom and speed, but requires more maintenance. We’ll discuss the pros and cons with you beforehand.
04/ Does Craft CMS support multiple languages and countries?
Yes. Craft is built to support multiple sites and languages side by side, with a separate structure for each market where necessary. You can specify for each field whether it varies by language or is shared across languages.