Concrete5 is great for everything from simple websites to custom, complex, applications. The peer-reviewed marketplace offers out-of-the-box solutions that save plenty of time and cost less than developing on your own with many add-ons available for free. Community support is fantastic with user forums and projects, including an e-Commerce solution that is robust and inexpensive to run with no monthly fees (seriously, the best e-Commerce package you're going to find). Sites can be deployed quickly with minimal costs and end-users can be trained often in minutes instead of hours or days. The platform is secure and allows fine-tooth permissions control. Internationalization is handled too for those that need to display their sites in multiple languages. Self-hosted and Concrete5 hosted options are available and maintenance is usually easily managed at the user-level.

Without question, Concrete5 is the perfect mix of power and usability to allow sites to be deployed quickly at a reasonable cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There can be a learning curve and the technology used in the background has grown more complex over the last few years. This is not to say that it can't be used by those with less technical knowledge, just that like with any CMS there is a learning curve and some occasional pitfalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More intuitive approach to creating content (on the actual page). Has the plugins and templates I need without having to navigate through a jungle of choices of questionable quality. Periodic deals on add-ons, and an ease of experimenting with add-ons makes it easy to grow familiarity and skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User forum could use a shakeup. After existing for so many years it can feel cluttered and not well organized. The transition of sites from the original architecture wasn't seemless, but the newer platform structure was a major improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So easy to use from an end-user standpoint, all of our clients have always been blown away with how easy it is. And easy to build and customise from a dev point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue is that it's not as well supported with add-ons/plugins as other CMS competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The community that comes with Concrete5 is truly amazing and all of it has come a long way in only a few years.It has a great community and just enough expansion capabilities to make it work for most application scenarios. We use it internally for process management and ticket management. We also like how easy it is to use and change to suit our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sure, it doesn't have the reach of say a WordPress in terms of expandability, but it has just enough to get the job done. The documentation could be a little better and it isn't currently as well know. But, it is still a great platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

The concrete5 community is knowledgeable, supportive and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation has previously been criticised but this is improving steadily and Portland Labs recognise the need to continue this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Concrete5 CMS is written by those who love clean, secure code. Especially if you are wishing to write your own PHP code for special requirements, C5 is really the most solid and affordable solution out there! Also there is good support outside of the community as well, eg. Stackoverflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The marketplace is smaller than other CMS like Wordpress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy: installation, configuration, customization and to do improvements. A great community that help everyone in trouble (if hapens). Tons of add-ons and great numbers of theme options (could be more, but is ok). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A few options to customize a theme on core system and few themes selling on market place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ConcreteCMS is very customizable, and its inline editing is the best I've seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the Marketplace is lacking some add-ons that can be found in other CMSs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Concrete5 is constantly growing and developing CMS that delivers all you need for any CMS-project. It also can be used as a framework and can be easily extended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It deserves be known more ;-). Also I am looking forward for a new certification and training program plus a parter section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.