Concrete5 Content Management System Review

May 21, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

concrete5 is a content management system, built in PHP, that makes it easy for anyone to run a website. It will save the planet.

It’s super friendly. You edit as you go like Google Pages, but anyone can build out a whole site that does cool stuff by just pointing and clicking. If you can write on a computer you can update your website with c5. It’s intuitive: just point, click, and edit in place. By making it so easy to use, people feel comfortable experimenting with their site. That’s freedom of expression and we like that a lot.

It’s powerful for developers. It can be easily extended in any number of ways. It wasn’t some news or blogging application we just called a CMS and released quickly. It is a toolbox we spent 5 years working on as a commercial solution to our own problems as web developers, before giving it away in 2008. You can build any type of website you want out of c5 without compromise.

It’s dependable & stable. It has been around, runs on a LAMP stack and it handles sites with hundreds of thousands of visitors with no problem. Its block-permission-template structure actually works very well. It’s not written in some language that doesn’t scale, it’s OOP, uses a database abstraction layer, all the stuff a developer would expect.

Download: Concrete5