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Umbraco CMS

Overview

What is Umbraco CMS?

Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by…

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Pricing

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Umbraco Free

$0

On Premise

Umbraco Cloud Starter

$45

Cloud
per month

Umbraco Heartcore Mini

$49

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://umbraco.com/pricing/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

How to add link to web page with Umbraco CMS "Link" component

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How to edit link with Umbraco CMS "Link" component

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How to remove/delete link with Umbraco CMS "Link" component

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Housing Hive: Everything you need to know about the Umbraco CMS

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How to add link to document with Umbraco CMS "Link" component

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Umbraco CMS — "Link" component DEMO

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9
Avg 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.5
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.7

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.2
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Umbraco CMS?

Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS available on the latest .NET version.

The Umbraco CMS aims to give users full control of a website and its features. They offer 2 products on top of the core features of the CMS:

Umbraco Cloud For Umbraco projects with Azure Cloud hosting, automated upgrades, and streamlined workflows.

Umbraco Heartcore is a headless CMS option with fully managed APIs, GraphQL support, and CDN.

Why use Umbraco?
The solution boasts flexibility and it is designed so the website's look and feel are exactly as desired. With open-source code and open APIs, the user can integrate, extend and scale the website to fit exact needs.

For content, Umbraco features and workflows are built into the CMS to give content editors and marketers the best possible editing experience. It is presented as capable, out-of-the-box, and to meet specific requirements developers can customize the backend.

The vendor states their main goal with Umbraco is to give users a platform that offers the freedom to do and manage things in their own way. Every project has different needs and requirements and instead of packing a system with options and buttons that may or may not be relevant, Umbraco tries to keep it neat and open.

Umbraco CMS Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: .NET

Umbraco CMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Umbraco 8 backoffice UIScreenshot of Umbraco 8 side by side multilingual editingScreenshot of Umbraco 8 Content AppsScreenshot of Umbraco Cloud project overviewScreenshot of Umbraco Cloud environment overview

Umbraco CMS Video

Umbraco The Friendly CMS

Umbraco CMS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Kentico Xperience, Sitecore Digital Experience Platform, and Drupal are common alternatives for Umbraco CMS.

Reviewers rate WYSIWYG editor and Code quality / cleanliness and Publishing workflow highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Umbraco CMS are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Umbraco our 2nd and final choice

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2019
JW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Umbraco CMS
5 years of experience
We create our website, so it is used by the whole organization and all our potential customers. We manage Umbraco CMS by a person in the marketing department, and a little work is done by developers. We also change Umbraco a little to suit the needs required by the marketing department as very important.
  • customization
  • good prepared SEO
  • integration with other software
Cons
  • a little more ready templates
  • e-commerce integration out of the box
  • easier URL configuration
As I write, Umbraco is very good in customization, also customization by programmers, but sometimes it needs quite a lot of knowledge to develop something. It is also very scalable and it is the best CMS framework in .net programming. There is not too much competition in this area, though maybe I would like to have a little bigger community
Web Content Creation (8)
76.25%
7.6
WYSIWYG editor
50%
5.0
Code quality / cleanliness
70%
7.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
70%
7.0
Library of website themes
70%
7.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
90%
9.0
Form generator
90%
9.0
Web Content Management (5)
78%
7.8
Content taxonomy
90%
9.0
SEO support
90%
9.0
Bulk management
70%
7.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
80%
8.0
Community / comment management
60%
6.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
70%
7.0
API
80%
8.0
Internationalization / multi-language
60%
6.0
Security (1)
70%
7.0
Role-based user permissions
70%
7.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • It's a .net solution and we program in .net so it was faster
  • thanks to their good SEO, we have more leads
We chose Umbraco because of their technology, and it was better than our previous CMS, Orchard, which was too complicated even for programmers. Orchard was very good but to develop something it required a really strong knowledge of this framework. In Umbraco it seems to be easier, and on top of that our marketing team like it more

Very simple but complete, Umbraco CMS will help you organization to go online in a very short time.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 27, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Umbraco CMS
1 year of experience
One of the client of my company will migrate several web site to Umbraco CMS. For now we are in a learning phase and start to test the workflow with Umbraco and several plugins like Ucommerce and uSync. Our client would start to migrate one or two sites and their application first, and they intend to migrate other of their applications and web sites later.
  • Easy to learn. If you know ASP.NET MVC, using Umbraco is straightforward.
  • Full use of the Framework MVC.
  • Very short time to market.
Cons
  • Conflict management if two or several users modify the same page or object in the same instance.
  • It would be great if the CMS came with two or more starter kits: very simple site, corporate site and maybe one with a simple e-commerce functionality.
  • Integrate a minimum continuous integration/continuous deployment functionality.
  • Umbraco CMS is well suited for a small and medium size company and organization. The time to market is not long.
  • Umbraco CMS is less appropriate for large scale web site or application, especially if there are a lot of content managers and writers who work simultaneously on the web site.
Web Content Creation (8)
62.5%
6.3
WYSIWYG editor
80%
8.0
Code quality / cleanliness
80%
8.0
Admin section
70%
7.0
Page templates
90%
9.0
Library of website themes
40%
4.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
50%
5.0
Form generator
N/A
N/A
Web Content Management (5)
52%
5.2
Content taxonomy
40%
4.0
SEO support
90%
9.0
Bulk management
N/A
N/A
Availability / breadth of extensions
70%
7.0
Community / comment management
60%
6.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
40%
4.0
API
N/A
N/A
Internationalization / multi-language
80%
8.0
Security (1)
80%
8.0
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • With Umbraco CMS, our company can now work with a different type and size of client.
  • The learning curve to develop a web application is very short. The time to market is then insignificant.
  • Umbraco is free and open source.
  • The community behind Umbraco CMS is large. If you need help, the forum is very active and there are several places where you will be able to ask for help.
  • If required, a professional and enterprise supports also is available.
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