--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Helpful software to manage website for you or your clients. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Drag and drop features. Easy to use. Quick to understand. Easy editing. Freedom of design **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Many steps are involved to create a new element. Sometimes drag and drop doesn't work. Concrete doesn't work if versions differ. Error messages are not very understandable. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Simple but effective software to manage your or clients websites. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier to edit the website without much effort. Maintenance is very easy. Designing is creative. ### 2. Excellent. Been using C5 for 9 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Very easy to customise and users love the user experience **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Some customizations rely on quite a bit of heavy uplift. In terms of setting up blogs for example. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Get using it. Its fantastic. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly corporate websites allowing no specialists the chance to manage online content ### 3. Easy for user and develipers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Mvc Architecture. Theme design is very easy. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Last five years the framework is getting heavier **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Try it. It is powerful. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast development ### 4. A powerful CMS which provides scalable development and easier to understand **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** 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 about Concrete CMS?** 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 of instance, versioning as well. Community needs to be more powerful and active to provide add ons. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create website for clients using singles pages and page type, page templates and most of all integration. ### 5. 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. ### 6. a better option for webdesign **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John W. | Entrepreneur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** the fact that designers can enter the platform at their skill/comfort level. you can build in WYSIWYG, blocks, or code-edit methods, from a single interface. the instant on-server versioning is awesome. It is not as restrictive as other WYSIWYG platforms, and it is proprietary to a server space (you can use it as WYSIWYG on your own server/hosting). bootstrap brings uniformity to repetitive work. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** you have to install it for each website created, so there is an installation per domain in a hosting package. You have to log in/out per website, and multiple installations in design mode on a single server are consuming resources, vs if a single install could handle multiple sites within a hosting package. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** running on shared hosting will likely be too slow for daily use, but it will give you an idea of the abilities you would gain. a VPS server is best, but keep in mind, multiple sites require multiple installations of concrete5, they do not yet have a multi-site management feature. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** speed of production, faster disaster recovery (restoring after botched code), ability to achieve hand-coded capabilities that other WYSIWYG platforms do not allow for. xara didnt allow for drilled down settings, and weebly of course was only used on their server space. we were able to un-can and un-cork with concrete5. ### 7. Pretty user friendly and fast, but not as diverse as more popular platforms **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor B. | Managing Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** The speed and simplicity of the platform is where it shines. It's also easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Looking at form inquiries is more challenging than it needs to be. Since it is not as widely used as, say, WordPress the support and plugins are limited. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've used it as the content management system for smaller websites. Easier to implement is a positive - saves time and money. Faster than bulky CMSs. ### 8. Quick review on Concrete5 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Concrete5 comes with a big jump. From the ground up developed as a blogging software. Concrete5 was originally created as a way to quickly and easily design and build a website. The platform has enough functionality out-of-the-box allowing to build any kinds of websites as well. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** While Concrete5 is considered to be very easy, some steps can be more detailed, and vary depending on the specific theme or plugin you are using. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Concrete5 provides its users with many add-ons as well. However, they are offered via the built-in Marketplace controlled by Concrete5, and thus tend to have less compatibility problems. ### 9. A beautifully simple CMS platform for dummies. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Once installed the design and front-end functionality is perfect for any experience level. Templates and extensions are easy to install and use. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Since the newest version, there have been fewer new extensions which is a shame. But most basics are there. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Consider using an external dev team for set up of the platform. At points, it was quite fiddly. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem is having a drag and drop CMS platform for clients that they can expand as needed without relying on a service like squarespace. ### 10. Good CMS but scales really badly (for a big corporate site) **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William C. | Développeur web Full Stack, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** The easy to configure WYSIWGs and drag and drop feature **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** The complexity and how badly it grows for bigger websites/apps **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content management system for a website we were building at my past company ### 11. User friendly live editing straight out-of-the-box, for almost EVERYTHING **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramon L. | CEO, Allround webdeveloper, Events Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** The live editing (and its ease of use) for every page is THE best thing concrete5 ships with. Go to a pageyou'd like to edit and add/change parts of your page - using Blocks. A page is build with multiple Blocks and you just click on a Block to do an action (edit/delete and many more). Each Block has its own fields to change, let's say a "Testimonial" Block with a "Name", "Image" and "Text" field. Change a Block, save the page and afterwards you have full versioning of changes you made to the page. So you can revert to any given date/point of time! **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** The somewhat small community, since WordPress is THE biggest CMS and most people "heard" WordPress is good and they only want that. concrete5 is a little gem that has only been discovered by a small group of people and needs/deserves more attention. Since the community is not huge, the amount of plugins/addons/themes isn't that big either. So it can use a bigger crowd! **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Try it out if you haven't yet. Don't go with the "everyone uses WordPress, so I should too"-hype, since you probably haven't heard how many times people have had their WordPress site hacked. Its plugins mostly have vulnerable code in it, that you need to update every week (and check if everything is still working the way it should with the new update). In general, concrete5 doesn't have/need these weekly security updates, since it's pretty much secure all year long (decent up-to-date coding). Alos, certainly take a look at Block Designer for concrete5 if you are not familiar with creating Blocks yet (or if you're a designer and want to do something fancy with Blocks). It's for sale in the concrete5 marketplace and could potentially save you hours of frustation :) **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** With concrete5, you don't have to explain your clients on how to edit a site/page. Once they are familiar with the very basics, they can do their thing. Just go to the page where you want to edit something, and click on a so-called "Block" to edit it (a page is a collection of blocks). Now sometimes a site needs blocks that did not ship with the CMS itself, so I've created "Block Designer". You can easily create any block you'd want and realize that what you needed for that design the designer made for the client. Saves a lot of coding for me as a developer, but also helps the non-developers (working at whatever company or doing a website for themselves) doing something that actually needed developing. You can create anything you'd like with concrete5, it's not just for blogging, or just for "basic" websites. You can create eCommerce with it, a social media platform or whatever you can think of. ### 12. great user friendly and simple CMS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael L. | User, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** concrete 5 has a great user interface and allows different levels of control for each user **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** not much to report, it fulfilled all my needs and tasks **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** seamless transfer of content for website ### 13. Works well, does exactly what I need it to. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Decent photo editor built in, well organized, easy to use. Well suited for even the most non-tech person to use. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Occasionally an issue with a lag between editing a photo and then it showing correctly on site. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining our website as well as integrating our student and parent portals with the website. ### 14. Has it all and extends to everythig I ever needed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** It is easy to use for (tech-unsavvy) users and still extendable for developers. Its robust core provides a lot of functionality out-of-the-box and the recent step from version 5.6 to version 7 cut off a lot of old code with all its possible problem of security breaches. Not only do I like the products itself but also the philosophy of the team developing it. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** It is relativeley unknown despite its high quality. It seems like many people measure the quality of a CMS by the number of free add-ons that are available for it, even though this is a hint that the CMS itself does not do much. Many want their website built with one of the popular CMSes or Web Builders because they've heard of them before, which I really would not advice to do. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Go look at it, you will not be disappointed. Don't be scared off by the relativeley (compared to WP) small amount of free add-ons it is a GOOD thing that concrete5 does not need much of them because of its strong core! **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've built everything I needed with concrete5, from booking systems, shopping carts, e-learning systems for schools. Beautiful, fast and robust websites are easily built. ### 15. Very flexible CMS for Designers and Devs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Very flexible system with a lot of built-in tools like inline editing, page versioning, built in blocks like image-slider, forms, seo-features, flexible theming, layout-columns in pages, user-permissions and roles. Secure and robust core! One of the coolest things is to build custom blocks for controlling the look and feel and giving a simple and flexible solution to a site editor. **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** The community isn't big enough to push things. I mean its a cool software and the small community is very helpful. But it could really get bigger. Second: The great bunch of tools takes some time to get used to. The more features - the more complex it becomes to get into this gem. **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Take time to learn with a smaller project. And contribute in the community. It's fun and you will lrean a lot. **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multilingual websites with a lot of custom design. ### 16. Concrete5 Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Becky R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Concrete CMS?** Ease of use, changes are quickly visible to users without having to publish first **What do you dislike about Concrete CMS?** Lack of support for older versions and lack of available plugins **Recommendations to others considering Concrete CMS:** Hard to get support, but very easy to use **What problems is Concrete CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing easy to edit websites for our clients ## 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?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-23+08%3A53%3A46+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=35c544f5-ff9d-4f5b-bc41-12c3ec6c88f8&secure%5Btoken%5D=28b319d0418561570c12e25752b50e162019d17a6d31a4f6a75c650f263dd31e&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 **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 / Integrations **Agentic AI - Web Content Management** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Concrete CMS Alternatives - [WordPress.org](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9,382 reviews) - [HubSpot Content Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-content-hub/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,888 reviews) - [Drupal](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (405 reviews)