Concrete CMS Reviews

Summary: I found ConcreteCMS nearly 10 years ago, and have watched it morph from a decent usable CMS into a technically brilliant platform that you can build just about anything on, with each iteration it just gets better. Clients love it as it's so easy to learn how to use, literally click on edit click on some text and bang you are editing your website. I really enjoy using ConcreteCMS and seeing the plans for version 9 and beyond I cant see that changing any time soon.

Positive: Very flexible for developers, built on a modern solid code base, that is very extensible.
End-users find it simple to use as all editing is done on the front end.
The override architecture is superb, I don't know any CMS that does it better.
Comes jam-packed with useful stuff out of the box.
Great set of tools for managing SEO.
Extensive permissions model, granular control of who can do what and where.

Negative: Community forum feels a little clunky at times, but there is a new one on the way (Discourse)
Docs are all there and quite detailed but need better organisation, but that is also in the works.

Summary: Overall this site is perfect on getting the source code for a program that would be hard to find anywhere else.

Positive: A great way to find a program that has its source code available to the general public, with tons of different categories.

Negative: Some times a program will be outdated with no recent updates.

Summary: 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.

Positive: Easy to use.
Great code base for developers.
Packed with features.
Secure.
Works out of the box.
Doesn't need loads of plugins.

Negative: People keep trying to compare it to WordPress when its in the next league to that.

Summary: Ease of access and great customer service!
I highly recommend this to anybody looking for a quick buck.

Positive: Email updates are great and ease of access through email is a bonus.
Best user interface to use and awesome customer service!

Negative: There was absolutely nothing that i did not like in terms of the software and user interface, also customer service was great!

Summary: Its a great choice when it comes to content management.

Positive: Easy to integrate, good for scaling content management, the best part is the market place where you can get other plugins to integrate with your application.

Negative: Needs more channels for support needs more options apart from slack where messages get lost.

Summary: Concrete5 is a great CMS. I find it easy to use and easy to alter to meet my requirements. Hopefully people will come to learn that this CMS is better than all of its rivals and it will get the credit and support it deserves.

Positive: This CMS is by far the easiest to use for end users. The WYSIWIG editor and block construction system is intuitive and easy to pick up. When I create websites for end user no training is required as a small word file containing user instructions is all that is needed. WordPress is only just catching up to Concrete5's standards but at the cost of a much slower comparative WordPress website.

Negative: The documentation has been poor in the past but this has been acknowledged by the Concrete5 team and they are now trying to address it. As Concrete5 is not as popular as Wordpress the number of addons/plugins is a lot smaller.

Summary: I adopted concrete5 after an end-user trial. With a variety of well known and lesser known CMS in their fresh install state, I asked a group of users to register an account and then add a page with some text and an image on it. concrete5 came out top by a long way.

Positive: A well engineered CMS. Managed marketplace for extensions. Everything you need from one location. Convenient for off-the-shelf solutions and for developing custom solutions.

Negative: Whilst concrete5 has its own forums, the primary means of quick support is Slack. Posts on Slack get lost in time, hence support information that others could benefit from is lost. With each new release, the infrastructure increases in complexity and leaves the documentation further behind.

Summary: Overall a great experience, as it helps to create well responsive content for all platforms and devices.

Positive: It allows creating easy mobile navigation menus for the developed websites and integrates all content and data very well.

Negative: Handling portal and editing content through mobile devices is difficult.

Summary: Concrete 5 is easy to use and have good customer support if anyone face issues. Designs and themes are great and fresh.

Positive: There are plenty of addons available to customize the content in your way and also give notifications for automatic addon updates. Designs are wonderful with themes available freely on Concrete 5.

Negative: Some knowledge and guidance needed for adding hyperlinks on sites.

Summary: My experience with the product is positive and it has lot of features to fulfill all my requirements regarding building sites and content management.

Positive: It is well balanced and clean software for content and web management and related stuff. The sites are well designed by using Concrete 5 tools and customizations and built with the functions to comply all modern devices and browsers.

Negative: Multitasking and checking in cross platform sites is little hazy.

Summary: My overall experience is great with Concrete 5 and it has been a great survivor for me to complete my assigned works get done within few clicks.

Positive: The most fascinating thing while using concrete 5 is that, it handles most of things automatically and all content editing, designing and management work is completed within few clicks.

Negative: There are few addons which I didn't get to work as desired. But it is perfect with most of the addons.

Summary: Overall in quality and services, it is the best content management solution for the developers and new entrants in the field.

Positive: If anyone is looking for a good quality content management solution product , then Concrete 5 is obviously a best choice to try. It has best themes and built in addons to make all your web designing and content management easiest.

Negative: Multiple hosting is not managed well for more number of sites.

Summary: There are multiple addons and themes available with Concrete 5, which are very useful for the designing of websites as per your requirements and needs. Overall a wonderful product.

Positive: Concrete 5 has been part of my software catalogue for a long period now and it is the best content manager with lot of addons and editing tools availability.

Negative: The only thing which I would like to see is more themes and fonts availability.

Summary: Concrete 5 has every aspect covered needed for the good content management solution. We can easily edit and manage our websites by using this software.

Positive: Using Concrete 5 we can create any design and content in the way we like by using personalized themes, style editors and chosen fonts without any special tech knowledge.

Negative: The available themes and editing options are great but little limited.

Summary: One of the best content management software with lot of tweaks and advanced addons in offer. People must try Concrete 5.

Positive: There are many software available in the field of content management and web development, but Concrete 5 is the best among all and provides more advanced and unique features for the purpose.

Negative: Some more third party addons needed to be added for better compatibilities.