Feature packed, intuitive to use
July 02, 2022

Feature packed, intuitive to use

David Reeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Concrete CMS

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.
  • 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
  • Documentation could be more extensive
  • Need to grow community to encourage developers to sell more in the marketplace
  • Build brand awareness
  • 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
WordPress is a basic blogging tool that has been hacked into a CMS, it is not as intuitive or comprehensive as Concrete CMS. It requires more updates and it can be harder to locate settings that the user needs. However, as a business, the WordPress team has been very successful in grabbing huge brand awareness and market share, which is where Concrete CMS needs to compete in the future.

Do you think Concrete CMS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Concrete CMS's feature set?

Yes

Did Concrete CMS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Concrete CMS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Concrete CMS again?

Yes

It's very well suited to projects where the client will want to edit their own site and make lots of changes. Because it is so intuitive, clients tend to love working with it. Projects that use feeds and process large amounts of data, are probably better off having a Concrete5 front-end and a separate element elsewhere doing the heavy lifting, perhaps another Laravel application.

Concrete CMS Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
10
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
8
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
10
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
10
Bulk management
9
Availability / breadth of extensions
9
Community / comment management
9
API
9
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
10