Concrete5

User feedback about Concrete5

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? Highly scalable, especially from being a simple blogging tool for us. This is helping us create websites without consuming much time and without going through a lot of hassles. This is serving its intended web development purposes. Concrete5 has everything needed for creating different websites; right after installation. What aspects are problematic or could work better? Some tasks are more difficult depending on the integrations ...

Suitable for front-end users

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? Inserting blocks and on-page editing is super easy with C5. Our clients can pull those tasks off, regardless of them having no sufficient programming background. What aspects are problematic or could work better? Some of the themes load sluggishly. We’ve also observed that the quality of the plugins has decreased. What specific problems in your company were solved by this product? We have been helping clients migrate from other ...

Suitable for almost all websites today

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? The most popular benefit of C5 is its suitability for front end users. Making on-page editing is unbelievably easy. It lets you use customized attributes and codes to make more sophisticated websites too. What aspects are problematic or could work better? We have faced some problems when three or more developers work on the same site. It cannot seamlessly connect local and remote environments too. Moreover, it is not that suitable ...

Highly adaptable, but have experienced problems with the providing agency

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? Concrete5 is an open-source CMS tool. So, many developers have already created great plugins that users can easily search and use on their own sites. Concrete5 also lets us do any necessary tweaks on our websites, whether with the use of programming codes or with plugins. This makes it easier for us to customize our sites. What aspects are problematic or could work better? We can’t make the most out of our Concrete5 account. This is ...

Wonderful user experience when creating websites

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? Concrete5 is a lot better than other content management platforms. It helps me easily edit the sites I make. It also has plenty of plugins among other resources. The tool carries a lot of cool themes and designs too, and I can customize them depending on how I see fit. And I have lots of great experience from the support I receive in the forum for user support. What aspects are problematic or could work better? I am having some ...

Streamlines our content management processes

PROS & CONS What are the best aspects of this product? I’m already using C5 since it was newly launched, and I immediately noticed its unique on-page editing feature. Only C5 offers such kind of uniqueness among other options I know. I also had a smooth and easy learning experience back then. Plus, the user experience when building a website is terrific, since one can easily boost the themes from basic HTML codes. I love that I only need to insert a few lines of codes to make an edit box ...

Concrete 5 is easy to use

What do you like best? It has a very active community Easy to create workflows Easy to create custom plugins What do you dislike? More plugins could be added that are free What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Its a CMS and it allows customer to modify easily

Simple Straightforward CMS

What do you like best? I first used C5 years ago while it was fairly new in the market. What caught my attention then was the on page editing experience that was very new at that time as none of the other CMSs had implemented it. The development experience as well was brilliant. Creating a theme from your HTML built site was straightforward and required a few lines of code to make editable fields. The learning curve was a no brainer. What do you dislike? One of the issues back ...

Very flexible CMS, was limited by the agency managing it for us

What do you like best? Concrete5 being open source is a great asset for finding integrations that others already created for your website. Everything we wanted to do with our website we were able to, either by custom programming or integrations from the marketplace. What do you dislike? We had an agency managing our overall Concrete5 account and this limited us in what we were able to do. Recommendations to others considering the product: Choosing a CMS is very important. ...

A powerful CMS which provides scalable development and easier to understand

What do you like best? The best thing I find in concrete5 is how easier and scalable this CMS is. It allows you to create custom blocks from existing blocks with proper structure. You can create packages, write automated jobs and much more. What do you dislike? It takes lot of time during installation, and every new version adds more tables which makes sometimes installation failed in middle, like timeout issue. Most of the time we need to find work around. Need more work on stability ...