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CMS Development Services We Offer
CMS Development Consulting
Our consultants analyze your current content workflow, website structure, publishing process, user roles, technical stack, and business goals.
Then we help you choose the right CMS approach among WordPress, Drupal, headless CMS, or a fully custom CMS.
Platform-Based CMS Development
WordPress, Drupal, Joomla or any platforms you want, we customzie themes, plugins, modules, and bespoke editor experiences built on top of these established platforms.
Headless CMS Development
We design, build, and customize headless CMS deployments on Strapi, Sanity, Contentful, Payload, Storyblok, and more.
We Include content modeling, custom plugin development, editor UI customization, and front-end integration with React, Next.js, or any other framework the project uses.
Custom CMS Development
Our development team designs and builds content management systems from the ground up, including content model, editor, workflows, APIs, integrations, AI features tailored to a specific business.
CMS Migration Services
We migrate content, media files, URLs, metadata, users, permissions, databases, and SEO settings from legacy CMS platforms, spreadsheets, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, old designs, or custom systems to a modern CMS setup.
CMS Integration Services
Connecting your CMS with the tools your business already uses or 3rd-party platforms.
For example: CRM, ERP, ecommerce platforms, LMS, analytics tools, marketing automation systems, payment gateways, search engines, AI tools, and internal applications.
CMS Support and Maintenance
Ongoing maintenance, security patching, dependency updates, and small feature additions we all provide after launch. Structured as a monthly retainer with defined hours and SLA, so the maintenance phase has a predictable cost line.
Enterprise CMS Development
For multi-brand publishers, large e-commerce operations, and regulated industries, we build CMSes that handle multi-locale content, complex approval workflows, audit logs, and compliance reporting (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS where required).
E-commerce CMS Development
We build content management system around product catalogs, transactional content, and merchandising workflows.
For example: Shopify and WooCommerce customization; Headless commerce integrations (Sanity + Shopify, Strapi + BigCommerce).
Modules We Develop and Integrate to Your CMS
Content Editor
Rich text editor, block-based editing, reusable content blocks, custom fields, preview mode, content scheduling, and structured content management.
Admin Dashboard
A clean dashboard for editors, marketers, admins, developers, and managers to manage content, users, workflows, reports, and system settings.
Content Modeling
Custom content types, fields, taxonomies, relationships, categories, tags, metadata, reusable components, and content variants.
Role-Based Access Control
User roles, permission groups, content-level access, workflow-stage permissions, admin rights, editor rights, reviewer rights, and environment-based permissions.
Workflow and Approval System
Draft, review, approve, publish, schedule, archive, rollback, notification, and multi-step approval workflows for content teams.
Media Management
Image uploads, video handling, file storage, folders, metadata, compression, resizing, CDN delivery, and digital asset management integration.
SEO Management
Meta titles, meta descriptions, slugs, canonical URLs, redirects, XML sitemaps, schema fields, image alt text, and content performance tracking.
Multi-Language and Multi-Site
Localization workflows, translated content, regional content variants, multi-brand websites, and centralized publishing across multiple domains.
API-First Content Delivery
REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, webhooks, content delivery APIs, preview APIs, and integration endpoints for websites, apps, and third-party systems.
Search and Content Discovery
Full-text search, filters, tagging, internal search, Elasticsearch, Algolia, Meilisearch, and AI-assisted content discovery.
AI-Assisted Content Tools
AI content generation, summarization, translation, tagging, SEO suggestions, internal linking suggestions, brand voice checks, and content quality review.
Security and Compliance
RBAC, MFA, SSO, encryption, audit logs, backup, secure APIs, access control, data retention, and compliance-ready content workflows.
Our CMS Development Process
Discovery
Review your current CMS, content structure, publishing workflow, user roles, business goals, integrations, pain points, and growth plans.
Mapping
We map content types, editorial workflows, integrations, AI features, and security requirements with your team. Output is a written spec the rest of the project works against.
Design
Design simple admin screens for editors, marketers, reviewers, developers, managers, and administrators, ensuring the CMS is easy to use in daily work.
Architecture
Plan the database, APIs, CMS architecture, security model, hosting setup, third-party integrations, migration approach, and content delivery flow.
Development
Back-end first, then editor and admin UI, then integrations. Sprints with bi-weekly editor reviews keep the interface usable for the people who will actually live in it.
Testing
Test content workflows, permissions, APIs, integrations, performance, security, SEO settings, migration accuracy, and editor usability.
Deployment
Launch the CMS, configure production environments, set up monitoring, train your team, and support editors during the first stage of live usage.
Maintenance
Updates, bug fixes, security patches, performance tuning, new features, integration improvements, and long-term CMS support.
Why Choose Relia’s CMS Development Services?
The Stack Behind the Success
Frequently Asked Questions
- A WordPress CMS website can cost around $5,000–$30,000.
- Drupal or open-source CMS development can cost $15,000–$80,000.
- Headless CMS development often ranges from $30,000–$150,000.
- A custom CMS can range from $30,000–$250,000+, depending on features, integrations, migration, security, and complexity.
- A simple WordPress or open-source CMS project can take a few weeks.
- A headless CMS or custom CMS usually takes 3–6 months.
- Enterprise CMS projects with migration, integrations, multi-language support, and custom workflows can take 6–12+ months.
Yes. Relia can migrate content, media files, metadata, URLs, users, permissions, databases, SEO settings, and legacy records from your current CMS to a new platform.
Not always. WordPress is better for many blogs, marketing websites, and small business sites. Custom CMS is better when the business needs unique workflows, complex permissions, deep integrations, high scalability, or full control over the content system.