Compare Concrete5 vs. Spress

Concrete 5 is a long running content management system. It is known for it's user friendly interface and with it's recent iterations has moved to adopt Symfony components.

Spress is a static site generator built with Symfony Components. The tool is versatile and uses familiar technologies such as Twig, Markdown and the Symfony console.

• Ease of use
• Extensions marketplace
• Reasonably sized community

• Low learning curve
• High performance
• Unparalled security with static HTML

• Product versioning can be confusing
• Not many examples for complex implementations
• Multilingual architecture not top notch

• Limitations when working with dynamic data
• Limited userbase
• Lack of basic functions people expect from a CMS (feedback forms, etc.)