Item: Umbraco CMS
Rating: 5
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a web development company and we set clients up with Umbraco.

Pros and Cons

Templating
Code editing
Back office usability

The update process is HORRIBLE!
Every release has bugs. NOT ONE release is BUG FREE!
Fixing issues quickly. We often have to wait over 30 days are months for something as simple as a media picker to be updated.

Return on Investment

We like using Umbraco, but the update process is an real issue.

Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new feature of the CMS.

Likelihood to Recommend

I like using Umbraco, but the update process is a PIA compared to WordPress. We have clients on WordPress and try to sell them on the idea of switching, but the maintenance to update Umbraco is a road block. Our clients don't have to pay to have their WordPress site updated. There are bugs in every release and the release schedule is mind numbing. Almost every other week there is a new release and with 20 web sites in Umbraco, it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with the maintenance and bill our clients for something that should have worked to begin with. Umbraco is more like a hobbyist CMS and is not quite ready for prime time. I would pay for a CMS to be bug free. The cloud option for Umbraco is not an option for us and honestly I find it impossible for the cloud option to be updated "automatically" while professional developers have issues with simple updates.

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