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What is Concrete CMS?

Concrete CMS, previously known as concrete5, is an open-source content management system designed for collaborative teams. It empowers users to create secure and visually appealing websites that content contributors find enjoyable to work with.

Its user interface emphasizes in-context editing, making it as user-friendly as a word processor.

As a result, you’ll spend less time on training and troubleshooting. The open-source framework facilitates the development of intricate applications, incorporating essential features like workflow management, file organization, and scheduling tools. Additionally, Concrete CMS boasts a marketplace filled with themes and add-ons that can enhance your project and streamline the development process. This versatility ensures that you can tailor your site to perfectly fit your needs.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$0
Price Overview:
Open source, or we can host it for you.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Integrations

Offers API?:
Yes, Concrete CMS provides an API

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Company Facts

Company Name:
PortlandLabs Inc
Date Founded:
2002
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
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Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Webinars
On-Site Training
Support
Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese (Mandarin)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Welsh
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Concrete CMS Categories and Features

Website Builder Software

Auto Update
Content Import / Export
Drag & Drop
Invoices
Landing Pages / Web Forms
Newsletter Management
Online Booking
Online Store Builder
Pre-built Templates
Real Time Editing
SEO
Survey Builder
White Label

Content Management System

Audio Content
Customizable Templates
Document Indexing
E-forms
Full Text Search
Image Editor
SEO Management
Text Editor
Version Control
Video Content
Website Management
  • Reviewer Name: Icecomm T.
    Position: IT Administrator
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
    Feature Set
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Concrete agile CMS

    Date: Feb 17 2021
    Summary

    The experience of deploying the CMS solution from Concrete 5 was overall amazing and tireless effort.

    Positive

    I like the ease that comes with the setup process involved while newly installing the concrete 5 CMS environment.

    Negative

    Concrete 5 platform is really amazing but has limited plugins and themes.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Engineering Executive
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Managing users on website is super easy

    Date: Apr 22 2021
    Summary

    Overall content management solution is well advanced and versatile through Concrete 5. Anything we need to run a prime website can be managed easily through this CMS.

    Positive

    Best product to manage users of the website and all related traffics on the content pages. Easily one of the versatile and detailed CMS in the market.

    Negative

    Notification area is need a little improvement and instant notifications doesn't work properly sometimes.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: IT support Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Well worth Content manager

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    Securing the name in the big market is a great achievement for any software, and the features and tools offered by concrete 5 justifies its market position.

    Positive

    It is a great content manager with versatile and unique features in offer. Concrete 5 has the ability to turn any content and site into worthy and eye catching site by its designs and proper layouts.

    Negative

    Site management and content designing is reliable and easy through this tool without any issues or problems.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: System Engineer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Reliable CMS

    Date: Apr 22 2021
    Summary

    It is best and CMS for the noobs with little knowledge about website development and management, as it provides many easy tools with existing templates and designs to use straightaway.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 makes things easy for the website management and development phases. It has the advanced editor to customize the content on your websites according to the need of the users and clients.

    Negative

    It is usually hard to work on multiple developers under one CMS system.

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  • Reviewer Name: Cameron W.
    Position: Project Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
    Feature Set
    Layout
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Build your site as you wish

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    My use of Concrete 5 is more on the part of editing and customization of site content, and I would say that my experience with these functions is great so far.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 brings the way to customize your sites and their look in the way you like it as a huge number of addons allows to broaden the overall functionality and content management.

    Negative

    There are few little issues with the dashboard management, but those doesn't effect the overall progress and working of the software.

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  • Reviewer Name: Sarah M.
    Position: Content Writer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Layout
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Keep the content intact

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    If anyone is running a complicated content on their websites and need a complete manager with lot of customization options, then he/she must try Concrete 5.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 keeps all your content and web stuff intact with full backup support and security. We can manage our content remotely with dashboards on remote devices too.

    Negative

    The things Concrete 5 can do are all perfect and without any problems.

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  • Reviewer Name: Micheal R.
    Position: Communication Assistant
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 5,000 - 9,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Successful Tool for Site Management

    Date: Feb 19 2021
    Summary

    concrete5 has made the whole process building sites effective. Again, concrete5 speeds the entire processing capacity of a website, through an easy management capability.

    Positive

    concrete5 is a confident tool, which helps in managing the content of Sites, from the Calendar, the SEO, and workflow, file management, and many more.
    concrete5 also, ensures that a site can quickly process the content or the files in it.

    Negative

    In terms of ease, while executing the site, concrete5 requires some perfection, like online training.

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  • Reviewer Name: Laurie O.
    Position: IT Engineer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Handy product for web developers

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    It is the best web developing product I have used and it is easy to use for any developer with basic knowledge.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 is a handy and very helping product for the web developers as it has detailed and easy tools for creating websites and managing them afterwards without any difficulties.

    Negative

    Web development is extremely easy with this wonderful product and no issues faced in that.

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  • Reviewer Name: John L.
    Position: Consultant
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great for end users. Good for developers.

    Date: Feb 10 2021
    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: Raphael P.
    Position: Project Manager
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Layout
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A awesome tool for a better and inclusive web

    Date: Feb 25 2021
    Summary

    I build a lot of websites for different industries like medicine, construction, food, automation, real estate etc. The principal benefit is the time I save building with concrete5.

    Positive

    Easy: installation, configuration, customization and to do improvements. A great community that help everyone in trouble (if happens). Tons of add-ons and great numbers of theme options (could be more, but is ok).

    Negative

    A few options to customize a theme on core system and few themes selling on market place.

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  • Reviewer Name: Darren T.
    Position: QA Specialist
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good product of CMS

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: David Kendall K.
    Position: Web Developer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Layout
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Super flexible, great for end users.

    Date: Feb 16 2021
    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Project Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
    Feature Set
    Ease Of Use
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Customization of sites is easy

    Date: Apr 22 2021
    Summary

    Integration of websites with different layouts and platforms is great with Concrete 5 and makes the things easy for web developers and content managers.

    Positive

    It is easy to customize sites and manage web content with use of Concrete 5. There is no special tech or coding knowledge needed to create and manage content for newbies.

    Negative

    There are not much limitations in this product and works great for all content management solutions.

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  • Reviewer Name: Glyn J.
    Position: Managing Director
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
    Cost
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Powerful, easy-to-use website content management

    Date: Feb 19 2021
    Summary

    concrete5 is very well accepted by our clients who find the editing interface easy to use. We enjoy developing with concrete5 and the community is helpful and friendly.

    Positive

    concrete5 delivers a complete content management system including WYSIWYG editing, forms etc. without the need for extensions to accomplish basic tasks. That said, concrete5 also provides an excellent modern php framework for further development and the marketplace provides a range of useful AddOn components.

    Negative

    Documentation has previously been criticised but this is improving steadily and Portland Labs recognise the need to continue this.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Student (was a Dev)
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Yearly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
    Cost
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    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy to use, flexible, and quick setup.

    Date: Feb 16 2021
    Summary

    Concrete5 is one of the best CMS systems that I have used. It is easy to get started with, and has a lot of customisation options.

    Positive

    The flexibility was far superior over other CMS systems that I have used. I particularly like the HTML blocks, since I can add my own code into a site.

    Negative

    CMSs generally require more storage space and the use of a database than building a website by hand.

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  • Reviewer Name: Cherie C.
    Position: Data Specialist
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy to use

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    Overall I am very much happy to have this CMS , as the things are very well manageable for content and web development.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 is well designed and creative tool with all the addons and themes available at one place for easy designing of web sites and content configurations. The tools portal is well in line and easy to use.

    Negative

    The tools and portal is well organized and easy to use without any hiccups.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Content Writer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
    Feature Set
    Ease Of Use
    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy to use

    Date: Apr 23 2021
    Summary

    Overall Concrete 5 does its job of content management and development in best way and has much more extra features than the competitors.

    Positive

    Concrete 5 is great when you need to do in-context editing for your content and also the function of WYSIWYG content editor makes it one of the best and unique content management solution.

    Negative

    There is no issue found in Concrete 5 and it has performed well for my tasks.

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  • Reviewer Name: Lynette R.
    Position: Market analyst
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    Layout
    Ease Of Use
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Concrete5 review

    Date: Mar 12 2021
    Summary

    I don't build lots of websites really but as a user concrete5, I enjoy its editing features which make is a lot easier to customize one's website as per preference.

    Positive

    Its breadth of features enable customer's ease of use in installation, configuration and customization. This makes it worth its high value for money.

    Negative

    Concrete 5 is written in php and highly compared to WordPress and dislikes the idea of separate user interface.

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  • Reviewer Name: Chris K.
    Position: Network Support Technician
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It really is very good for a CMS

    Date: Feb 23 2021
    Summary

    I like the community and the software is very polished and runs fast. The overall look and feel is very good and professional. It is open source and free so you can see and modify the code as needed and add plugins where you lack a function for that build in.

    Positive

    I say that because all CMS's are quite complicated to run since it is more of a kitchen sink approach than a focused solution. But, Concrete5 hits all the right points for our solutions and we had it up and running fast.

    Negative

    Documentation can be lacking at times but the software is very well laid out and so easy to implement.
    Small add-ons market which is still okay because it gets the big things right and they are of good quality.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: IT admin and webmaster
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
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    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Very good and versatile CMS with unique features

    Date: Feb 22 2021
    Summary

    Concrete5 offers a good doc and videos to learn using it for free. You can adapt it to your need. You can develop addons easily.
    Read the online doc and you will be fine with Concrete5.

    Positive

    Concrete5 includes "workflow" to manage editing permissions on website for different users.
    You can choose any HTML template on the web and use it easily with Contrete5.

    Negative

    Nothing to say, everything is good to me.
    It would be great if more people know and use it.

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