The thing what I like the best on eZ is the way of display contents and the API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the documentation (even it's better than before :) ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can achieve anything. Anything! The integration with Symfony was a stroke of genius. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of moving parts. It sometimes feel like building a spaceship and flying it at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration of Symfony2 was a great move Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the community repos are not getting enough love Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ offers a great content model which allows you to tailor the system to your needs. Unlike other CMS platforms eZ is both multi-lingual and ready for multi site projects without assuming web to be the only content channel. This is a clear advantage to many other solutions which require plugins. One of the best reasons for chosing eZ Publish 5x or eZ Platform is that it fully supports Symfony. Other platforms are using this, but not full stack.

One of the best things about rendering the content is that you are free to design your own views , meaning your content can be output in different ways and this can be done consistently. Reuse of content is easy and all data is stored independently of your presentation format, meaning it can be easily exported or offered by other solutions via APIs for instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The hybrid stack is a great idea, but has been tough to work by. One of the challanges has been that it has taken some time to get the necessary features supported. The idea of having a mixutre of architectures is not the best, although it does offer existing customers a clear path to transition to the new system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* flexible content structure

* multi-language support

* multi-site support

* easy to customize Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CMS is powerful and has a lot of feature ready to use but it's also complex and it will take before you start liking it as a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many things that one can love eZ Publish for... My feeling is that the majority of the good things that we appreciate about the CMS today result from the fact that the software had been designed, coded and evolved the way it should have been done, in a very mature manner. Simple as that, yet so rare for so long and in so many open source projects. Stability, extensibility, robustness, security, flexibility, extensive use of best practices in terms of content management, content model as well as code organization and application architecture - all gracefully negotiated and combined together, at least since around legacy version 3.5.x which was the eZ Publish beginning for me about 10 years ago and now additionally amplified with Symfony2. It all makes eZ Publish a very solid, reliable code and project base. After all these years I am still enthusiastic to work with it.

To name few things I like about eZ Publish in particular:

- great, mostly very consistent PHP-level API and codebase (although I can’t deny awaiting the legacy code drop),

- it is great for prototyping and negotiating content and information architecture,

- with Symfony2 framework on board, it is even more robust,

- it is a Content Management Framework rather than just a CMS, there’s really little ground for confusion with most of popular open source products,

- it does help to shape and enforce high content culture within an organization and editorial team,

- it has great a community of enthusiast and experts,

- it is open source - you are able to discover all the awesomeness and adopt it to your own liking and needs and also contribute from time to time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The content model doesn’t seem to evolve too much anymore.

The general adoption of eZ Publish on our market doesn’t change at best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This CMS is a full-featured, all bells and whistles, all-you-need, and then some, kind of beast. Many advanced features that are clunky and hard to use on other CMSes (multiple languages, document versioning, .doc and .pdf autoi ndexing), are just a click away with this app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ is not that easy to develop. To start, it is a dual app/framework thing. It comes with a whole app already working, but there's a huge API to build whatever you can dream of, and everything is customizable. It needs some time to learn all the corners. And docs are sometimes on the basic side, addressed to the ninja-level developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many thing I like about eZ. First of all its open source which offers more innovation and efficiency when implementing web solutions on top of it. At the same time the end client has, optionally, enterprise level support to lower the risk. Furthermore, eZ has a great architecture with 2 important pillars: extensible content model for channel agnostic content management and separation of content and presentation. It has several API-s that offer easier integrations and customisation. It is based on Symfony2 PHP framework which offer almost unlimited ways of extending the core. It is known for its upgradeability (taking care that the product can be upgraded smoothly when needed) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The weakest point currently (Q1 2015) is the editor experience which is based on the old administration interface (the concept dates back from 2003 or so). The long awaited new editorial interface is in the works so we should have more appropriate experience for editors during 2015, finally.

Also, the learning curve is high, but it is a consequence of the fact that it not a simple CMS, it has many features and traits, and it is possible to do the same thing in many ways. So eZ might be better described as a Content Management Framework. Documentation (especially for beginners) is not very rich which contributes to the steep learning curve. This is changing recently as newer versions of eZ are based on Symfony2 which offers plenty of resources for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most Professional CMS we have been working with.

Don't be confused, wordpress is nice, simple and fast. But this is in a whole different level, once you learn ezpublish you have a CMS platform where you can create big and fast performing sites with a very pro API that you can extend and integrate.

Based on symfony 2.X makes ez publish a perfect choice for us as we already invested in learning symfony platform inner workings.

The contend edition is very simple, you either gives them access to the site admin section (which is more daunting for beginners or just the frontend editing toolbar )

Database design is exquisite, if you have a DBA around he will love it.

Mobile ready from the beginning and the API is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steep, steep learning curve. Don't download this project to make a website during the weekend.

Even some simple things take a long time to do. Don't even try to change a single parameter in the database like you will do in wordpress, here database design is so relational (maybe 3rd or 4rth degree of normalization) that you need a good understanding of the design before trying to do that.

Being symfony based (version 5 and up) made the system very robust but you need to really understand what you are doing, otherwise you will feel lost.

Community is lagging behind wordpress and other CMS.

*EDIT (24/2) - Ezpublish is not yet fully migrated to symfony so some components are not yet there and there is an ezpublish_legacy bridge, bear this in mind, try to go for the latest version and upgrade often while learning so you don't have to learn some legacy stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I prefer of Ez Publish is the Security and the Stability. I am working with EzPublish for more than 5 years, I never had security problems. Even without update the CMS for years you will be safe of hacking. I started to implement this tecnology in Chile. In the agency I am working all website was done with Joomla and Wordpress and the agency was suffering hacking everytime. Joomla and Wordpress need you to be always attentive of new versions. All websites was rewrited with ezpublish and nowadays we can focus 100% on developments improving the quality of our solucions. Of course, this is only THE best think I like with ez but i could talk about ez for hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that there is no automatic update of the CMS. All have to be done manually and this is really annoying. (at least with the ez comunity version). I also dislike the fact that it is not possible to extends an existing class (talking about "content class", not about PHP class) (Employe is a Person, Director is a Person, both should have comon field ... ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.