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What is Concrete CMS?

Your team will enjoy using a site built with Concrete CMS. You'll spend less time training people, and less time having to fix things yourself. As an open source framework you 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 active community can help you finish building an amazing product using Concrete.

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Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Concrete CMS is an open source platform allowing a team to manage a complicated web presence with ease.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) is an Open Source Content Management System for teams. You can run a secure website your content contributors will love using with Concrete CMS. Concrete is a platform that grows with your needs.

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

As an open source framework you 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 you quickly deliver amazing solutions using Concrete CMS.

Join fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, individuals and governments using Concrete CMS


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Seller
concrete5
Year Founded
2003
HQ Location
Porland, OR
Twitter
@concrete_cms
4,946 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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2 employees on LinkedIn®

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Dan K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Flexible, User Friendly, and Developer Friendly"
User-friendly for user Modern PHP Development Very flexible in what can be developed using the framework - from blocks for an editor to quickly a...
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Alexander S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The only CMS you need. It also happens to be the best."
Working with concrete-cms for the last 12 years made me appreciate this CMS the most of all of the popular ones out there. In page editing and easy...
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Kurt K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"all in one package which has been in development for over a decade"
Ease of use for content creators. It is an excellent framework for creating almost any website/application for developers. You can tell that the de...
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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Having used WordPress, Joomla, Squared space, Wix and moany other CMS's this is the best i have ever used.

It has everything you need out of the box, it is feature rich and you rarely need loads of plugins. It was built for the user, its simple to use but also has a complex core that you can build off should you want to use it as a development platform.

The code is well commented, well structured and easy to expand. There is a good community of developers and designers with a good forum and slack group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

There isn't much to dislike, the lack of ecommerce is an issue but there is a very good plugin for this that is well supported. some of the documentation can be lacking but there are enough people in the C5 community should you need the answers. Also it is very easy to contact the creators of this CMS should you want exact information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:

Get it, install it and you will never look at or need another CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is now my go to CMS, I don't need to keep going and installing updates to keep it secure like WordPress, none of my site have ever been hacked. The feature set out of the box is perfect and you don't need to get loads of extra plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Concrete is a very powerful yet easy-to-use CMS. We use it both for our intranets and public websites.

Its multilanguage features help us connecting to our worldwide customers.

Thanks to its great permission model, we grant our resellers access to specific parts of our websites, and since it's so easy, they don't even need any training!

Last but not least, it's very extensible, and its codebase is very clean and robust: coding for it is a joy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

The documentation is a bit lacking, but since Concrete is very easy, you won't miss it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connect to our customers, promote our products, connect to our resellers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Love C5. Been using it since 2013. Easy and runs smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

Too few updates, features and developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Intuative system my collegues easily can manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Concrete5 is a very good and reliable cms tool. It is very useful for developers as well as end-users. It provides a drag and drop feature with responsive layouts which makes this tool very efficient to use. The developers can edit the layout by coding also. It provides more than 1000 add on functionalities which makes it more attractive to use. Concrete5 community support and forums are very helpful and useful. Also according to our organizational requirements, we can easily manage access control which ensures the privacy of the project. It provides multi-language support with integration with other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

Concrete5 provides fewer built-in forms which basically restricts some of the client requirements. There is less documentation provided for concrete5 which is a big negative point. The user interface can also be improved and can be made more friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:

Concrete5 is a very good alternative to WordPress and it has more amazing layouts than other cms tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

With concrete5 we have solved many problems such as we can now give more time to back-end functionality compared to frontend as many amazing layouts and templates are provided by concrete5. No major maintenance is required as everything is prebuilt which saves a lot of time and effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

I've been using Concrete CMS in the last 5 years actively. It's a perfect fit for fast prototyping, headless projects, API-s, small projects (website in a weekend) and also for large-scale project (I have a project with huge traffic and constantly ongoing activity) and this CMS fits like a glove. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

No such thing. It's the combination of all the things I like to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:

Try it, feel it, dig into it, play around with it. Maybe it will catch your attention as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm using it for all types of projects, fast prototyping, small (one weekend) and large (2 years ongoing) projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Safety of the CMS, ease of use, rapidity of the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

Things I cannot do, like getting rid of the concrete5 message at the bottom of the pages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Safety and problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DK
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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

- Ease of use for clients, most of the editing can be done on the front end, a couple of clicks and you are editing your website.

- Modern codebase for developers

- Easy to extend and modify if needed, very flexible

- Secure

- Override architecture is well thought out and implemented flawlessly

- Block architecture is easy to understand and very powerful

- Responsive community and approachable development team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

- Marketplace is a touch small, not as many add-ons and themes as some of its competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Selling sites that a client can be left to edit themselves can be a perilous task, if you use a poor CMS you can guarantee you will be on the phone all day explaining how to use it. With Concrete5 I found that issue is gone, if your client can write an email they basically have the skill set to use Concrete5, fewer support calls means a happy developer and a happy client, couple this to a very robust permissions model and you have a great CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Concrete5 includes "workflow" to manage editing permissions on website for different users (you can choose who can see or edit what for each page of the website), an inline WYSIWYG editing features, easy forms creation and management.

Concrete is very easy to use, very easy to set up, also it is pretty comfortable, friendly and powerful.

You can choose any HTML template on the web and use it easily with Contrete5.

The experience of deploying a website from Concrete 5 was overall amazing and tireless effort.

The development team loves it because it's completely customizable and our users love it because of it's an immediate way to edit, maintain and grow the websites.

Concrete5 has a great set of tools for managing SEO too.

Concrete5 offers a good doc and videos to learn using it for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

Everything is good to me, I could say that Concrete5 has limited plugins and themes but you can adapt it to your needs and you can develop addons easily.

The marketplace is smaller than other CMS like Wordpress but you can find the essential you need and more.

It would be great if more people know and use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I needed a good and fast to learn CMS to make a website quickly, I have done this thanks to Concrete5. I can edit the website fast and easily every day to keep the website up to date.

Thanks to Concrete5 i managed to replace an old website in less than 10 weeks working on it only few hours a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Comprehensive editing tools for site owners.

User-friendly and intuitive interface.

Extendable architecture for developers.

Solid community forum for asking questions and getting free & paid help.

Good number of 3rd party add-ons and themes to extend the core features.

Regular news updates from core team about platform improvements and strategic direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

Average quality and depth of developer documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:

I've been using this CMS since 2009 and over a decade later, I'd still choose it again in a heartbeat. The team behind ConcreteCMS is always pushing the platform further, and taking bold, brave steps to make it a world-class system. As a developer, it's a breeze working with ConcreteCMS. The elegant architecture makes it easy to create complex add-ons and functionality that is clean, fast, and future-proof. Take the time to give it a try and see how it performs for you, and after a few weeks you'll be like me and it will never be able to look back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

An easy way to publish beautifully formatted and structured content easily.

In addition to the security and performance benefits, ConcreteCMS makes managing large websites painless and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Concrete CMS?

Concrete5 is simply best of-class content management and website development platform. It's ready to use right out of the box, and it completely extensible and customizable as much as needed. More over, our clients love working on their sites for day-to-day updates and site management. Concrete5 runs on any Linux (LAMP stack) server that would support Drupal, Joomla, WordPress or any of the other platforms.

Our clients love working on their Concrete5 powered websites. Whether it's adding articles to the news room, sharing brand assets, updating employee profiles, or posting job openings to for their HR departments. It's not uncommon for our clients to grow their sites >50% in size during the first year after launch.

If your web team is tired of dealing with CMS training issues, you need to consider Concrete5. If your technical team and host are tired of dealing with website security issues, you need to consider Concrete5. If you're pulling your hair out over frequent update patches required to keep your CMS platforms secure, you need to consider Concrete5 as the primary platform to grow your business, build great sites and make clients happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?

It's really hard to find something to dislike about Concrete5. Concrete5 is a strong, flexible, secure platform that works on small websites or giant data driven web applications. The biggest thing that I dislike about Concrete5 is that it does not have the name recognition of other website platforms. I hope this review helps other people learn about Concrete5 and give it a try on their next project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:

Setup a Dev site and give Concrete5 a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

My firm builds designs, develops and builds brands, Concrete5 is our go-to web solution. There are a number of benefits including how much our clients web-team like managing through the Concrete5 in-context editing. Other benefits include superior security when compared to other CMS platforms, and limited need for software updates and patches for security reasons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.