Why We Built DegDitor CMS for Sylius: Solving the Content Gap in Sylius
If you’ve ever worked on a Sylius project, you’ve likely run into this problem:
“Sylius is great for eCommerce logic — but where’s the CMS?”
While Sylius provides an excellent headless and modular architecture for building custom eCommerce experiences, it lacks a native content management system. For many development teams, this becomes a bottleneck — especially when the project also needs marketing pages, blogs, landing pages, or dynamic brand storytelling.
That’s where DegDitor CMS comes in.
The Problem: Great Backend, No Content Layer
Sylius is built on Symfony and provides a clean, scalable, and flexible eCommerce engine. However, it deliberately avoids bloated features, including a built-in CMS. This means:
- No native page builder.
- No WYSIWYG editor for dynamic pages.
- No easy way for marketers to manage content without developer involvement.
- No structured way to create and organize custom landing pages.
- No SEO-friendly fields for rich content management.
In many projects, developers are forced to:
- Integrate third-party CMSs (like WordPress, Contentful, or headless CMSs).
- Build a custom CMS in Symfony (costly and time-consuming).
- Hack around Sylius’ “StaticContent” (minimal functionality, not scalable).
The result? Increased complexity, longer time to market, and poor marketer experience.
The Solution: DegDitor CMS
DegDitor CMS was created to fill this gap — a native CMS plugin for Sylius that allows content management without sacrificing developer control.
🔧 Key Features
- Visual Editor: A page builder built into the Sylius Admin Panel.
- Structured Content Blocks: Define and reuse content components like Hero sections, testimonials, product showcases, etc.
- Custom Attributes & Fields: Add dynamic, localized fields to your content blocks with support for text, images, color pickers, sliders, links, etc. - see Developers docs for more infos
- SEO-Friendly: Meta fields, slugs, and configurable page / category path prefix.
- Extensible by Developers: Define your own block types and validation rules with Symfony-native config.
- Multi-lingual by Default: Built for international eCommerce.
Why Sylius Needs DegDitor (When Magento and Shopware Already Have a CMS)
One of the biggest criticisms of Sylius has always been its lack of a built-in CMS — especially when compared to its main competitors:
- Magento (Adobe Commerce) comes with Page Builder, a drag-and-drop interface that lets marketers build and manage custom pages without writing code.
- Shopware offers its own CMS module, including layout management, content blocks, and rule-based personalization — all baked directly into the core platform.
These features make Magento and Shopware more appealing to businesses that need to launch content-rich sites, quickly test campaigns, or localize customer journeys.
And while Sylius excels in developer flexibility and clean architecture, it has historically lagged behind in content management. This limitation often forced teams to cobble together workarounds, increase time-to-market, or depend too heavily on developers for simple changes.
That’s exactly why DegDitor CMS exists — to close this gap without compromising the strengths that make Sylius great in the first place.
With DegDitor, Sylius projects finally gain parity with Magento and Shopware when it comes to content and page management — while retaining superior customization capabilities.
Who Is It For?
DegDitor CMS is built for teams using Sylius who want to:
- Empower marketers and content editors without constant dev support.
- Accelerate the launch of landing pages, campaigns, and blog content.
- Avoid messy integrations with external CMS platforms.
- Preserve the Symfony/Sylius philosophy of extensibility and modularity.
Developer-First, Marketer-Friendly
Unlike traditional CMS plugins that get in the way, DegDitor is designed to be:
- Composable: Blocks and layouts are treated as first-class Symfony citizens.
- Frontend-agnostic: Use it with Twig, Bootstrap, or your headless frontend.
- Decoupled: Content and presentation are separated cleanly.
- Quick to integrate: Install via Composer, configure with YAML or Symfony service tags, and start building.
Marketers can finally update the homepage, build a seasonal promo, or localize the "About Us" page — without asking a developer for help.
Closing Thoughts
DegDitor CMS brings structured, dynamic content editing into the Sylius ecosystem — without compromise.
If you love Sylius for its flexibility but hate building CMS features from scratch, DegDitor might be the missing piece of your puzzle.
Built by the team behind Fifty Deg. Because content and commerce shouldn’t be at odds.