Content Management, Technologies
- September 3, 2008
CMS compare : Concrete5, Wordpress, Silverstripe
This article makes a quick comparison of 3 popular PHPÂ Content management Systems :Â Concrete5, Silverstripe and Wordpress. While Concrete5 and Silverstripe are two real content management frameworks, Wordpress is hugely popular as a blogging platform and each new version brings new feature that make it perfectly usable as a CMS, provided you install specific plugins such as PageMash.
Among these 3 popular content management solutions, each on has its own specific features. In a few words
- Wordpress is perfect for community based content websites
- Silverstripe is perfect for basic page management in a multiple level hierarchy, with limited user rights and priviliege system
- Concrete5 is ideal for large organisations with complex user groups and workflow schemas
what they have in common : features we compare
- unlimited hierarchy structure with drag and drop reordering
- a visual form editor
- flexible data schema for tables and records
- wysiwyg editing with advanced media management
comparison table
| WORDPRESS 2,6 | CONCRETE5 | SILVERSTRIPE 2,2 | |||
| Page Management | |||||
| inline editing | YES | YES | YES | ||
| drag & drop pages reordering |
PageMash plugin | YES | YES | ||
| template
management |
site wide + code based | page types + template / per page | per page type (code based) | ||
| programmatic content type | *** | ****** | ***** | ||
| version control | YES | YES | YES | ||
| version compare | YES | YES (requires python) | YES | ||
| File / media upload | |||||
| unlimited file size (swfupload) | YES | YES | YES | ||
| wysiwyg form maker | YES cforms2 plugin |
YES form page type |
YES
userDefinedForm |
||
| validation | YES | NO | YES | ||
| CAPTCHA protection | YES | NO | NO | ||
| form confirmation message | text editor | NO | wysiwyg editor (additional field in page) | ||
| entry list | YES flexigrid |
YES basic HTML – no delete button |
YES basic html – no delete button |
7 Responses to “CMS compare : Concrete5, Wordpress, Silverstripe”
Thanks for doing the review. Note that SilverStripe provides CAPTCHA-like protection out of the box through integration with Akismet (akismet.com) and a “maths question” like those shown our website, e.g.
http://www.silverstripe.com/you-got-us-into-the-cms-award-finals-now-vote/
There is then a CAPTCHA module you can add to your projects, see http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=modules:recaptcha
By Sigurd Magnusson on Sep 4, 2008
Hi Sigurd, is the captcha available in the userDefinedForm page type form builder ?
By admin on Sep 4, 2008
Concrete5 also provides captcha protection out of the box.
By Remo on Feb 19, 2009
THANK YOU for this useful review !!
There are quite a lot of users trying to find a CMS where one can concentrate on adding content rather than spending weeks on tuning the soft and coding addons.
Although Wordpress is more blog orientated, these 3 CMS target on easy learning curve and interface and that’s really great !
Btw, Concrete5 and Silverstripe seem quite similar (at least when you see their dashboard), could be interesting to have a more detailed comparison about these 2…
By HelloNingbo on May 11, 2009
In summary would you say that Concrete5 is a worthy contender for building decent CMS sites?
By Cybernautix on Jun 6, 2009
Depends on your needs and it’s pretty hard to reach a conclusion based on 12 factors.
By Kent on Oct 21, 2009
This is out of date. concrete5 supports much of what it says cannot be used, here.
By //de on Feb 15, 2010