Likelihood to Recommend Suitable if you are part of small to large scale companies or web-houses which have PHP developers and frontend engineers with some budgets. [Also suitable if] you or your client want to build a website that requires some features or uniqueness [and needs] some customization and freedom. Additionally suitable if you want this project to be DevOps based project or if the project requires very tight security and is inside of a closed network.
Read full review TYPO3 is great if you need to connect some systems in company to work together: like ecommerce + CRM + ERP + MRP and build an Extranet for partners/dealers where they can order your products, see particular BOM (bill of material), paid/unpaid invoices and use email marketing on top of it. You can do it but keep in mind that you will need a dedicated hosting, well organized admin(s) and some handwritten code. For simple blog TYPO3 is also a good choose, but WP would be better I think.
Read full review Pros As a dev, the Page object (coupled with page attributes, nav menus and page lists) makes structuring a website or web app a dream. The separation of page templates from page types also helps, the former being about layout while the latter is more conceptual. As an admin, you pretty much have as much control as the developers of the site decide to give you. The versioning system allows admins to roll changes back and work on changes before publishing them. The permissions system is exceptionally powerful, allowing roles and/or individual users to be included or excluded from each permission. The attributes system allows pages, files and users to be given custom properties of various types (e.g. text, image, colour). Read full review open source - do what you want, and even if you dont know how to do it - someone will do it for you more secure than others (Joomla, WP, Drupal) - thanks to dedicated Typo3 Security Team modularity and diversity - a lot of plugins/extensions workflow and user roles - feel free to build a workflow templates ie. for documents routing assets management - no matter is it a video, audio or text file, you can REALLY manage it. typoscript language - sometimes JS is not enough Read full review Cons Allow end users to clear cache when updating pages. Needs a few more built in forms. The CMS is not multilingual by default. Even though I managed to 'hack' it so, it would be nice to have it included. It'd be nice to make use of custom PHP modules through shortcodes more straight forward. It seems the hooks are a bit contrived. Read full review compared do Wordpress - far less community support when you run a simple blog - it is simple as piece of cake. But if it is a large news site, with many user roles, extensions and permissions - it may be hard to find an admin that will organize and keep that stuff working. server resources: so you want performance and speed with all that modules enabled? make sure that you have dedicated server in most cases. WP works much better here. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Its a very solid, very consistent package that never lets you down or leaves you frustrated. It gets a 10/10 because its so much better than anything else currently available. It also gets a 10/10 because, even if not compared to others, it does not leave you wanting for features or functionality. It is an excellent piece of software that will answer almost every CMS need.
Read full review Usability I have used it on over 30 projects in the past 3 years and it's still a pleasure to work in. Doesn't always have all the answers, no CMS does, but I still find it very easy to use from prototyping to working to final project. Also there is no problem working on a localhost then moving to a live site, like there is with
WordPress . It's my go to app in my CMS quiver.
Read full review Reliability and Availability Since it's not tied to a central server (other than for authorizing updates and assigning licenses to specific sites), it's available pretty much 100% of the time.
Read full review Performance The site works extremely well, the front end flies, searches and form submissions are very fast indeed. The reason its a 9 not a ten? the back end can be a little slow at times, and this is unfair, because for the backend to be so amazing, it has to do a huge amount of work!
Read full review Support Rating Concrete5 is open-source and has an incredibly strong, polite, and supportive community. You can get an answer to nearly anything you want to do with Concrete5 by googling for it, searching the Concrete5 discussion forums or stack overflow, or posting your question to the forum. Members are very courteous and do not look down on those with less knowledge. And answers are always quick, informative, and supportive.
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Read full review Implementation Rating Build off of an existing theme to speed up the creation of custom designed themed. Bootstrap is a good one but there are many others that are probably much simpler to build from than the Bootstrap one was. Make sure you host on a Unix/Linux server so you don't have to install PHP or MySQL separately. It's just smoother on those platforms.
Read full review Alternatives Considered WordPress at the time was riddled with security breaches in the news and while Concrete5 was smaller (and therefore a smaller attack vector), after eleven years of use, Concrete5 has only had one published incident with an add-on that resolved within hours and with excellent communication. You can talk to the CEO and the CTO (or the rest of the team). They are very engaged and you're working with a small company of people who care, not a call-center with people just waiting to go home.
Read full review more complex and elastic revoke system (undoing changes for multi-administrator systems) PHP/JS and TypoScript language LTS - long ter msupport (bugfixes and updates) usage rights and permissions (much more advanced thatn in WP/Joomla ) separation of design and content (in WP also but here is complex) many plugins to integrate with external systems several portals may be operated from a single admin/install Read full review Return on Investment Concrete5 is the customer-facing side of our business. It's where we host the site that potential customers see before they choose to purchase and create an account with us. We are able to keep that site clean, user-friendly, and with a lot of available options for customers to interact with thanks to Concrete5 The ability to have multiple users and admins for the site means that we all members of our team can go in and create new content, fix or troubleshoot issues, and edit the site easily. Our CRM isn't directly integrated with Concrete5, so when customers go to make a purchase with us, they have to leave our Concrete5 site. Read full review + 1 platform that handles connections to 11 external systems (CMS, CMR, ERP, MRP, accounting, controlling, email marketing etc.) + still lower TCO than commercial systems (Oracle, Microsoft) + LTS - long term support - can provide you an updates or bugfixes - resource consuming (forget about shared hosting in large projects) Read full review ScreenShots