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Overview

Concrete CMS

4.5

(54)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Concrete CMS

Concrete CMS is an Open Source Content Management System for teams. Run a secure website your content contributors will love using with Concrete CMS.

The user experience is built around in-context editing. It’s as easy to use as a word processor.
Users will spend less time training people, and less time having to fix things themselves.

As an open source framework the software can build complex applications as features like permissions, workflow, file management, calendar, forms, SEO and so much more are built right in. A marketplace of add-ons & themes and an active community can help users quickly deliver effective solutions using Concrete CMS.

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Concrete CMS Pricing and Plans

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Concrete CMS Features

Popular features found in Web Content Management
Content Personalization
Content Publishing Options
Drag & Drop Editor
eCommerce Management
Multi-Channel Distribution
SEO Management
Website Accessibility Tools
More features of Concrete CMS
Access Control
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Approval Process Control
Asset Lifecycle Management
Calendar Management
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Configurable Workflow
Content Library
Content Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Customizable Templates
Design Management
Digital Asset Management
Document Classification
Document Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Electronic Forms
File Management
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Image Editing
Landing Pages/Web Forms
Media Library
Metadata Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Language
Pre-built Templates
Preview Functionality
Real Time Editing
Search/Filter
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Tagging
Template Management
Templates
Text Editing
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
Website Management
Website Publishing Options
Workflow Management
WYSIWYG Editor

Concrete CMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

70%

20%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.3

Olivier S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Concrete5 simply the best ^^

i'mm using ConcreteCms for all website, e-commerce, content management, proffessionnal software, intranet back end. I can do all with it, then i do :)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

maning thing to say the content and page manaegament, the block system flexibility, the page's management, the easy way for the design development, and so on

Cons:

perhaps the docs not completely done for new version

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

12 years ago it was the best for in context editing, and it's always the case in these days

Liv G.

Verified reviewer

Sports

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2019

Concrete5 Easy to use

It's easy and fast to post, edit, and update. The menus are comprehensive and simple and makes keeping your site running easy.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's intuitive - the block system is much easier than Wordpress. This power is in the simplicity - but you can make it as complex as you need with add ons. It's much easier to organize your site with Concrete5, also.

Cons:

There may be fewer add ons than Wordpress options? But I can't say for sure.

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

The block system, and the menus. Wordpress has such a steep learning curve, concrete5 is far easier to get your footin.

Kelly F.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Obsolete

We were happy at the outset of our Concrete5 journey, but it didn't last long making us feel we were thrown into the ocean wearing concrete shoes as support was no longer available to fix problems on our site. Needless to say we did not have our website rebuilt in Concrete5. None of the vendors with reasonable rates even recommended using this platform for creating a website.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

When our website was first built in this software we were thrilled. It was truly an upgrade from our former site. We could fairly easily make updates and changes. The website looked good, was mobile responsive (though not without issue) and was able to handle some plug-ins for some of the things we needed our site to be able to do.

Cons:

Our site was built on a version that was already on the fast track to becoming obsolete. This was something we did not know, I'm not sure if the vendor we selected to build our site new that it was about to expire. At any rate, we had spent thousands of dollars to get this beautiful site and once it expired in 2019 we had no option but to start again from scratch. Costing our organization a great deal of hard earned donations.

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

We switched so that we could more easily manage the website from any device by logging in whereever we were. We are having our new site built in Wordpress.

Ikechukwu A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Congrete5 CMS Review

Concrete5 has all features on one page, you dont have tol be moving allover looking for a particular feature or tool or function, they are all right there before you on you backend screen

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Powerful Backend Flexible CMS App and Date and admin Tools in one Place Integration in ways that is very smart and effective Use AI to provide insight

Cons:

Not Very Popular and needs alot of awareness to see the beauty

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

It has all functionality on one page and very flexible to use and beautiful and smart features and development blocks

Cor R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Best open-source CMS for PHP

Great for clients but they will need a ConcreteCMS developer to do the ideal setup.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of editing websites, small learning curve for our clients, much safer than Wordpress,

Cons:

Thre Ecommerce section is not finished yet

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

On page editing, not easy to hack, stability

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

ConcreteCMS much better and much more options

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to share your love of Concrete CMS!

Replied March 2024

Jim G.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Stay away from this

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

are there any? I have not been able to find them

Cons:

It is NOT A CMS - it's just a web tool. It was not worth the money.

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

I thought it was a good alternative to Drupal. It's not.

Tim C.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Painless CMS

It has made it possible to both create customer sites for clients in the past as well as maintain a highly functioning enterprise website today. The learning curve is manageable and the addons are, typically, well tested and reliable. It is the best development platform I've used to date.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

C5 allows you to set up either templated site frameworks or makes it fairly easy to adapt a scratch design to enterprise-level CMS. As a developer, I find set up easy and fairly intuitive. As a user and one who coordinates other users, I find it far superior to Wordpress in terms in managing and adding content. And, while no framework is bulletproof from a security standpoint, I've found C5 to be the best at preventing issues, easily backing up and easily restoring a site when stuff does happen.

Cons:

There's a bit of a lag between the software's upgrades and PHP updates. Like Wordpress, functionality is managed via plugins created largely by independent developers. As host update PHP versions, there is frequently a disconnection between functionality and available/installed "stuff." In other words, the core C5 app may well be functional with an updated PHP version but the plugins in use will, on occasion, not keep up. That leaves short period of scrambling to either fix it yourself or make due until the fix is made.

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

Cost and easy of use.

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

The ability to quickly and affordably customize in terms of both appearance and functionality, It keeps development costs down while making content easy to manage after launch.

Jeremy R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2019

concrete5 - The Best of Breed CMS

For me as a developer, concrete5 is a great base to build almost any project on. The extremely powerful attribute system lets you add custom categories so you can reuse tried and tested code for free. You can even add your own custom attribute types which can pull from other data sources. The built in user management system, complete with support for Oauth is one less thing you have to code.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a user, I love the in page editing features of concrete5. You simply click the edit button, click the content you want to edit, type in the content, save, publish and you're done. No messing about with the dark recesses of a hidden control panel. All that you need is right there in the page.

Cons:

As a developer, the documentation is sometimes quite a way behind the product itself or doesn't actually exist at all. This can be frustrating because the underlying architecture of concrete5 is built on the best of breed open source components, and to do things correctly without modifying the core can take time to figure out. It's usually pretty simple once you've figured it out though.

Reasons for choosing Concrete CMS

Joomla's control panel was frankly hideous. Wordpress is/was/always will be a security nightmare and the everything-is-a-post database is overly simplistic and hideous to work with.

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

Home grown CMS was too old to be of use and not as flexible, and had a much poorer user experience.

Verified

Reviewer

Graphic Design

2-10 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Excellent CMS!

Concrete5 made is easy for us to setup complete websites, including a built-in blog, for users who had little or no experience with blogging. Once we adjusted to the user interface and the customization methods, we were running smoothly in a very short time. Highly recommend it!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Concrete5 is like a breath of fresh air when it comes to content management systems. We have worked with WordPress for several years, but wanted to try something different. Concrete5 got the nod after some research showed that it is a solid platform with enough support behind it to make it worth our time and efforts. Setup is super easy and customization is pretty easy once you understand how it functions. Oh, and the fact that it isn't as popular as WordPress makes it almost a waste of time for hackers, so it's very safe.

Cons:

Because Concrete5 isn't as popular as some of the other CMS systems, it doesn't have nearly as many free plugins or addons. Most of the time, what you need can be found, but it might require purchasing what you want or hiring someone to custom-create it for you.

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

Concrete5 offered us a fresh platform that wasn't being targeted by hackers or malware.

Verified

Reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

User Friendly Website CMS

I was able to come into my position having past experience with WordPress and easily figure out how to use Concrete5.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like how modern and user friendly this content management system is. Many features are drag & drop so even a novice can create a web page, but there are robust capabilities that can be coded in as well.

Cons:

I would have liked other options for viewing files, specifically images. And increased ease of navigation through the back end of the website.

Reasons for switching to Concrete CMS

Switched jobs

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