All October CMS Reviews
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Bozhidar
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
The best Laravel-based CMS
To make our web site about HR agency. There is a lot of SEO options, a lot of modules that can help you not start everything from 0
PROSIt`s very easy to use. The CMS is very flexible and intuitive. I`m using October since it was free, but for now is very affordable to pay and I continue to use the CMS. Strongly recommend to my developer friends.
CONSIt`s very easy to use it. I`m integrate the CMS in several different ways: From web site about road assistance, furniture site, HR Agency
Reason for choosing October CMS
Because is more stable and security!
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Because is more stable and security!
Adam
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
A good choice for a long time WordPress user
Overall they're somethings that our customers found not so convenient to switch from (visual editing ect) but the new ones we implemented this software for were happy to use it.
PROSThe ease of use of the software, a clean codebase that enables you to develop further features with more ease and with great readability. It's Laravel based so you get access to a lot of plugins that you can use.The team develops new set of useful features each new version - features that the users vote on OctoberCMS portal.
CONSSometimes the updates breake the current installation also because it's based on Laravel it can require you to switch to new PHP version when updating - which in itself isn't bad, but can require an code update to fir some changes in newer PHP versions.
Reason for choosing October CMS
Price tag and we did try it before.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
The previous software was bloated and getting slow, plus the availability to break thing by the customer in an easy way
MIchal
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2022
Good for some purposes
ease of use by end user, tailor, simplicity
CONSdocumentation - not so many tutorials on tailor or how to make own plugins
Reason for choosing October CMS
i thought it will be easier to extend
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Because i want to be free in changes
Stefan
Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Easy to customize and to use CMS
- highly customizable with Tailor - easy to create custom pages, with twig and PHP support - easy to use as content manager, simple navigation - very flexible
CONSNot many specific plugins for some scenarios, not many themes Little bit hard to get into, but thats with every CMS
Alexandre
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2022
Best CMS I've seen in the last decade
I'm an experienced web developper, more than 15 years of experience. Worked with Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla... October CMS is the best experience I could see since I do that Job.
PROSMost of the things are intuitive. No need to install 50+ plugins to have base features. Theming is awesome, and you save lot of time compared to a standard laravel application. In fact, it allow us to do tailor made websites for the price of a template based wordpress website (ok, just a little more expensive).
CONSSome elements are a bit less well designed or missing. The most missing feature to me is a page builder that would allow customer to edit their landing page content in a visual way. Or the file management widget that is confising between fileupload and media manager.
Reason for choosing October CMS
It's based on the laravel framework (PHP) which is the language I know the most.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review, Alexandre!
Replied November 2022
Martin
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Best CMS system for the PHP (xAMP stack) based on Laravel
I am working with October for over 5 years, I converted from Wordpress CMS, because it was a really pain in ass. At first it wasn't hard to learn principes, and overall it is a much better and faster experience than wordpress.
PROS- Easy of use, - Fast learning curve,- Based on Laravel - Page speed - Improvement team is not sleeping and doing very good work
CONSThere is no disadvantage for me now. Team is doing great work. Every problem was fast solved by the team. Also portal and talk at octobercms are doing great job for octobercms improvements.
Reason for choosing October CMS
I've tested a lot of CMS products, but October is based on Laravel, which is for me best PHP framework.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Wordpress is very bulky, slow and very hard to administrate web sites. Plugins and themes are complicated and overkill to use it together.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great review, Martin!
Replied November 2022
Viktor
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
One of the best solutions for web projects
We have been using the last three years for small projects for clients. Small portals, corporate sites, business card sites.
PROSArchitecture, clean code, nothing superfluous, clear plugins, easy ability to write your own plugins and expand functionality. Convenient theme template engine.
CONSThe marketplace is still poor. I would like more ready-made good additions.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Ease of writing additional functionality without any problems.
Joe
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
October CMS is Best!
We're able to develop features extremely specific to clients' use cases with ease--it's a pleasure!
PROSThe documentation is straightforward for newer developers and for that reason it's easy to integrate into team development.
CONSIt's hard to find things that we don't like about October CMS.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
It was too difficult to develop very custom features with WordPress and at the time the overall architecture was antiquated. We still develop with WordPress for those clients who demand it, 9/10 projects we reach for October.
Yan
Government Administration, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Why I Use October CMS in my Project
I really love the plugin infrastructure, it gives me so many options to build what my office needs.
CONSI really hate when I need to customize how the User Interface component interact in Backend, althouth I rarely got this challenges. Let me give the example: when I need to create Point Of Sales Backend UI, I have 2 number fields and need to updating the other field based on these fields. Add then discount, tax fields etc.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
OctoberCMS gave me based platform to start any web based app I need.
Rostyslav
Real Estate, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
OCMS is perfect
I create various sites for: real estate, restaurants, hotels.
PROSHighly customizable and extensible code and architecture
CONSEverything is perfect. There are enough of features, especially in v2 and v3.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Other CMS are poorly customizable if needed to extend admin panel or third-party plugins. It is possible to create a site of any type on OctoberCMS and create any functionality. Almost any whims of the client.
Devin
Design, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2022
Amazing Software, Integrates well with my workflow
Overall, this software has helped me build many many sites. It's been a breeze integrating it into everything I build.
PROSEase of setup, configurability, responsiveness of the team, and ability to adapt to any workflow
CONSThe documentation is sometimes missing on things that you can do with it.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Ability to completely control the code.
Pedro
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Brazil keep using OctoberCMS ;)
I decide to work with October CMS in 2015 when I was reading about all features. I was on Rio de Janeiro Airport and I show to my partners in company. We implemented the CMS in 2015 and we don't have any major problems until today.
PROSThe administration panel. Amazing. Fast and flexible.
CONSThe October CMS is loosing compared to others CMSs on "Headless" approach.Build a Requests and auto documentation is the main key for us.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
The quick API headless setup got us.
Mihai
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Very nice work!
Solved everything i was challenged to do by my customers.
PROSEasy to use, quick development of new plugins.
CONSIn Media, missing a description of the image size detail. I have to open the file in a new tab to see that info.In backend, sometimes i need to group some fields in more that two columns (span: left|right|full).
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Offers me more speed in development.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review, Mihai!
Replied November 2022
Robin
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Framework that can be used for any product.
Even when you don't need the CMS functionalility at all, you can use OctoberCMS for any SaaS application, CRUD operations, etc.
CONSThere were some bugs in the beginning. But these are already solved.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
More simple, faster, easier for developers.
Joe
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2022
A perfect tool for web developers to build fully customizable and manageable websites
Montana Banana uses OctoberCMS to build the majority of complex websites that our clients require. While we do use other tools such as WordPress for lower budget "brochureware" sites, we use OctoberCMS for all of our larger budget projects with complex business logic, custom site flow, API backends, and integrations with other systems.We have been using OctoberCMS solely for our advanced projects since 2017.
PROSThe backend interface provided by OctoberCMS is their "killer feature." Our developers love the plugin structure and power provided by the system being Laravel based, and our project managers and clients love the backend CMS.
CONSSome of the boilerplate code and yaml files required to build plugins feels like it could be reduced.
Alexandru
Banking, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2023
Alex BSD
I enjoy it even when I need to do some workarounds just because the features and the final result are much better than the other CMS I've used.
PROSI started using it from an early version and it evolved so much with very nice features!
CONSFroala is ok overall, but I would like a better and more customizable richeditor.
Reason for choosing October CMS
Because of the ease of creating custom plugins and themes.
Stewart
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
great framework
I'm the CEO of a web development company. We have been using OctoberCMS for 5+ years and it is now one of our core frameworks that we use for custom web development. It has been a great tool for us.
PROSIt is the perfect balance of default features and flexibility to customize features when/where needed.
CONSI honestly have no complaints. My developers all speak highly of this framework.
Neil
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
October CMS is a dream to work with!
It's been a pleasure to work with, and as time goes on the updates to the framework just get better and better.
PROSThe speed and ease that October gives you to get cracking on with the things you want to!
CONSI don't think there's anything I particularly dislike about October - but ecommerce on something to track backend user actions like udpating model records, to build up an audit trail would be great.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
October being built on top of Laravel was a primary driver for us to make the switch.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review, Neil!
Replied February 2023
Simone
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Our definitive choice
After 23 years in website development using our own custom made framework we finally have found the software we missed. We are moving all our customers to this CMS and they're all happy.
PROSPerformance, scalability, continuous upgrade and growth, security
CONSNot so easy to understand at first sight, coding in it is not hard but you need to "get in October mentality"
Reason for choosing October CMS
Developers oriented, lightweight framework, not so big market share as WP, security vulnerabilities, customization possibilities
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Obsolescence, need to upgrade all our customers with more performance and security
Dariia
Verified reviewer
Retail, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
A good software product
I like that this product can be adapted to any request
CONSProgramming skills are required for effective implementation
Maksims
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
My thoughts about OctoberCMS
CRM and custom made websites where general plugins are either too complicated or not solving the desired needs. I've been with OctoberCMS since the very beginning of it.
PROSEase of creating any business logic possible with simple plugin creation
CONSThen 2.x plugin versions are no longer supported
Reason for choosing October CMS
Simplicity and low price.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
It was outdated and development wasn't that fast.
Thulana
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Great CMS Product
OctoberCMS is a fantastic platform for building websites and web applications. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive features make it easy for developers to create custom websites quickly and efficiently. The CMS also provides a robust set of tools for managing content, including a WYSIWYG editor and flexible page templates. The platform's modular architecture allows for easy customization and integration with other systems, and the large developer community offers a wealth of plugins and themes to enhance your site. I highly recommend OctoberCMS for anyone looking for a powerful and flexible content management system.
PROSI like this software because it's straightforward to customize and implement software solutions.
CONSThey need to improve their documentation.
Rolands
Program Development, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Laravel developer friendly content management system
We have built many things starting fron simple blogs to PWA for LMS and ecommerce storefronts using Shopaholic plugins
PROSThat it keeps up with Laravel framework updates.
CONSDocumentation is really good, but for beginer developers would be good to have more real code examples.
Reasons for switching to October CMS
Liked freedom and CMS features
Marek
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2022
pretty good laravel based framework
OCMS is a great framework for developers as well as for non developers. It has a plugin architecture that works great for feature reusability and overall cleanliness in the project.
CONSMore advanced things can't be find so easily in the documentation.
Alex
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Simple and fast development
Ease to use, and powerfull for custom projects.
CONSImprove and extend the documentation. Sometimes is difficult investigate how find the solution to develpoment problems.