#1 most frequent
United States of America
35.0%1,841 installations of 5,259
What is Concrete CMS?
Concrete CMS (formerly Concrete5) is a free and open source, PHP built content management system for content on the web and also for intranets. It is optimized to support the creation of online magazines and newspapers.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
1 / 4
Screenshot of In-context editing is simple to understand
Top Performing Features
Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 7.9
Admin section
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
Category average: 8.1
Page templates
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
Category average: 7.9
Areas for Improvement
Availability / breadth of extensions
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
Category average: 7.5
Community / comment management
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
Category average: 7.5
Library of website themes
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
Category average: 7.3
Who Buys & Uses Concrete CMS
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9.3%491 installations of 5,259
#3 most frequent
Switzerland
8.2%432 installations of 5,259
Amazing and really well thought out CMS. Works out of the box!!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazing and really well thought out CMS. Works out of the box, easy to setup and is packed with features so you don't need loads of plugins. Great for editors and very good for developers to build off. The code base is excellent. This has been design with the basic user in mind, the UX and UI is very well thought out and being able to edit content within the page without having to go to a backend is very valuable. The team behind this CMS is constantly improving and updating it but not just fixing bugs, really user improvement. The community that supports it is vast and there is always someone on the forums to help you out.
Pros
- Works out of the box.
- Packed with Features.
- Simple to use with brilliant UX/UI.
- Great code base to work with.
Cons
- Some documentation can be confusing.
- Not enough people using it.
- Has no ecommerce.
Return on Investment
- Less time spent updating software for security bugs.
- No need for expensive hosting.
- Less time training my clients to use it.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Joomla!, Squarespace and Wix
Other Software Used
Joomla!, WordPress, Wix
Want a super easy and solid swiss army knife of a website, use Concrete CMS
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for our public-facing website, and we use it to deliver a range of website solutions for our clients. I offer it to my clients because I know I can create easily maintainable and extensible sites for them and be confident that they can become quite self-sufficient in a short amount of time.
Pros
- create and publish user-defined database content
- easy and intuitive for site editors *and* developers
- standards compliant and highly secure
- was built from the ground up to be a versatile and robust development environment
Cons
- reinvigorate and grow the (addon) developer community
- expand and refine the documentation/education program
- grow brand awareness
Return on Investment
- easy to sell because of ease of use and ability to offer a solid solution to any request
- the ease of extensibility has made it simple to upsell features
- we only develop in Concrete because other options are too costly in the long run
Alternatives Considered
WordPress and Drupal
Other Software Used
Figma, ClickUp
Feature packed, intuitive to use
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Concrete CMS for our website and for our clients. We host 120+ websites that we have developed over the past 7 years. Projects range from simple brochure sites to eCommerce, through to highly bespoke sites, where we have created lots of new functionality.
Pros
- Easy and intuitive for site editors
- Standards compliant code
- Up to date and secure
- Limitless, easy to extend
- Lots of functionality out of the box
Cons
- Documentation could be more extensive
- Need to grow community to encourage developers to sell more in the marketplace
- Build brand awareness
Return on Investment
- Easy to sell due to how intuitive the Concrete CMS is
- Being a specialist in a fairly unknown platform can lead to the easy acquisition of clients who already use Concrete CMS
- Low search volume for Concrete5 means we still take on more general web design work
Alternatives Considered
WordPress
Other Software Used
WordPress, Joomla!
Concrete CMS has nicelly choosen it's name, Concrete is really concrete
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I'm using Concrete CMS for almost all kinds of web-based software I build. It's a real swiss knife. I've made a website, e-commerce, ERP, and many management tools with it. it's a very nice project base. I always have the facility to teach how to use it to the project's users, it's very intuitive.
Pros
- in context editing
- plugin programming
- web security
- modification with mouse
Cons
- i don't see
Return on Investment
- 90% of my work is based on
Alternatives Considered
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce), MODX, WordPress, TYPO3 CMS Website Development, Odoo and GLPI
Other Software Used
Odoo, Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce), WordPress
Concrete CMS is your ultimate choice of CMS!
Pros
- Permission and workflow
- Ease of adding features by Symfony and composer
- Large enterprise intranet
- Big enough global community
- University websites
Cons
- Community
- Hosting service
Return on Investment
- Easy to develop new features
- Worrying [about] security less
- Very complex permission model
- Sometimes too complex to manage permission
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Joomla! and Movable Type
Other Software Used
WordPress
