Compare Joomla! vs. Concrete5

Joomla! is one of the big three PHP CMSes. Currently it uses only a single component from the Symfony project. Joomla remains a strong contender with a large number of users and extensions.

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.

• Large developer and user base
• Plenty of ready made extensions available
• Tried and tested basic concepts

• Ease of use
• Extensions marketplace
• Reasonably sized community

• Administration can be confusing
• Lack of focus, tries to do everything
• Codebase is a mix of old and new

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