--- title: Concrete CMS Reviews meta_title: 'Concrete CMS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 66 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Concrete CMS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 66 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Concrete CMS Reviews **Vendor:** Concrete CMS **Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 66 ## About 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. ## Concrete CMS Reviews ### 1. Concrete is only as strong as the mix. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David Z. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** What's not to like about Concrete5? It's intuitive, comprehensive in feature set, easy to set up, easy for clients to use, responsive, adaptable, and secure. The user community is supportive, helpful, and really, really smart. It has a lot of functionality built-in that you would need to add in apps like WordPress and Drupal. Licensing addons is unique because it is developer, not client, centered, so you could re-assign licenses and reuse addons and themes. So far, great! **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Unfortunately there is no substantial developer ecosystem, which makes a great product even better. Not enough themes and addons for working with multiple clients, no way to test addons prior to purchase, unless you purchase and then return the product (which would really annoy me if I was a developer). As a site designer, it would be to your advantage to be comfortable working with code. File Manager could use some streamlining and speed. Many templates and addons have been around for a long time, and may be in need of updating to meet current web standards. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** I used to build *all* my sites in Concrete5 version 5.6. That was when third party support was the most active. With the release of version 7 and continued in 8, that was severely reduced due to new addon requirements and some developers not wanting to re-write their products. In addition, Portland Labs had abandoned their eCommerce and discussion board addons, leaving some site designers high and dry, until the e-commerce function was added by the open source Community Store. I am hoping with the soon-to-be-released Concrete CMS (version 9), the third party situation will begin to improve again, I would be happy to return to the fold. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Promoting the facility, the many rehab disciplines available, the programs, and the staff, as well as registering first-time patients. We are able to process first time clients much faster now that they can fill out the required paperwork ahead of time and have it delivered to us prior to their initial visit. ### 2. Not what I expected **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio N. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Blocks are easy for non programmers to work with, and edit the page. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Some developer documentation is a bit obscure and out of the date. Also, there are not as many tutorials available as for some other platforms, which makes a job bit more difficult for certain things. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** I recommend it, but as I mentioned before, it might be a bit difficult to find the right developers to implement certain features. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was mostly using Concrete5 to build a custom website with small traffic that didn't require a lot of changes. ### 3. Flexible CMS ever **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil K. | Associate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** It's also similar to other's much flexible and good one. Also which is not a better option for the e-commerce work. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** most of the good packages are paid one only, need more active community **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple Web apps ### 4. User Friendly for End Users, not so much for IT **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Training the end-users on this software was pretty easy. We made a guide and everything seems to be running smoothly for the most part. We will occasionally get a question or two on something, but for the most part, everything seems to work fine! **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Using Concrete5 as an IT user has been a pain. It isn't too much of a negative, but uploading files doesn't seem to be as straightforward as it could be. However, as long as it works well for the end users, the software is doing its job I think. IT should have the skills needed to overcome any design flaws that might come with catering to the end user. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Concrete5, all web changes had to go through the IT department which would overload the staff and make request take longer to complete. With Concrete5, users can update their own websites after they go through our Concrete5 training. This has helped to make the Helpdesk more efficient as well. ## Concrete CMS Discussions - [How can I change the dashboard colors?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37850-how-can-i-change-the-dashboard-colors) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [View Concrete CMS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/concrete-cms/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+13%3A10%3A41+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bc9bc9ae-a857-43cb-88b7-7cef2cb33bfd&secure%5Btoken%5D=d02f0d63e613045497ae0e75cf2b9d038bad332799db7b5d836a5dc8e7873200&format=llm_user) ## Concrete CMS Features **Content** - Content Authoring - Rich Text Editor - Versioning - Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps - Approval Process - Content Scheduling - Asset Management - Internal Search - Content Repository - SEO Management - eCommerce Management - Forms Management - Campaign Management - Media Management - Drag & Drop Editor - Audio Editor **Design** - Breadth of Pre-Built Templates - Mobile - Branding/Themes - Customization **Platform** - User Community - SEO - Flexible Navigation Structures - User, Role, and Access Management - Enterprise Scalability - Internationalization - Dashboards and Reports - API **Agentic AI - Web Content Management** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Social Media Integration **Additional Functionality** - AI/Machine Learning - Reporting/Analytics - Collaboration Tools - Image Editing - Website Publishing Options - Chatbot - Content Publishing Options - Text Editing - Access Control - Website Accessibility Tools - Content Delivery - Content Personalization - Configurable Workflow - Generative AI - Alerts/Notifications - Video Editing - AI Copilot - Performance Testing - Activity Monitoring - Multi-Channel Distribution ## Top Concrete CMS Alternatives - [WordPress.org](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9,390 reviews) - [HubSpot Content Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-content-hub/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,889 reviews) - [Drupal](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (406 reviews)