TrustRadius Insights for Umbraco CMS are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Flexible and Customizable Design: Several users have praised Umbraco for its design layout flexibility, allowing for easy customization of the website's appearance. This feature has been mentioned by a significant number of reviewers, highlighting Umbraco's ability to meet diverse design requirements.
High Level of Control: Reviewers appreciate the high level of control offered by Umbraco, enabling them to customize various aspects of their website such as data management, product pages, and entities. This capability has been consistently highlighted by multiple users, emphasizing Umbraco's versatility and adaptability to different business needs.
User-Friendly Interface: The simplicity and ease-of-use of Umbraco's user interface have received positive feedback from many reviewers. Users find it intuitive and straightforward to navigate through the system, assign different roles to team members, and keep the site updated with the latest information. Multiple customers have commended Umbraco for its user-friendly interface that promotes efficient content management.
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Umbraco CMS Reviews
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One of the client of my company will migrate several web site to Umbraco CMS. For now we are in a learning phase and start to test the workflow with Umbraco and several plugins like Ucommerce and uSync. Our client would start to migrate one or two sites and their application first, and they intend to migrate other of their applications and web sites later.
Pros
Easy to learn. If you know ASP.NET MVC, using Umbraco is straightforward.
Full use of the Framework MVC.
Very short time to market.
Cons
Conflict management if two or several users modify the same page or object in the same instance.
It would be great if the CMS came with two or more starter kits: very simple site, corporate site and maybe one with a simple e-commerce functionality.
Integrate a minimum continuous integration/continuous deployment functionality.
Likelihood to Recommend
Umbraco CMS is well suited for a small and medium size company and organization. The time to market is not long.
Umbraco CMS is less appropriate for large scale web site or application, especially if there are a lot of content managers and writers who work simultaneously on the web site.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
Other than helping to implement Umbraco for some of our clients, we use Umbraco CMS as an alternative to WordPress for a couple of our microsites. We typically only consider Umbraco for our clients (and teams) when they have one or more tech-savvy resources to help instruct and troubleshoot issues when they come up.
From a business perspective, Umbraco is very flexible (and open source). It allows for more freedom in design and data architecture (vs WordPress). For some clients, that is a necessity.
Pros
Umbraco has a lot of design/layout flexibility.
Umbraco provides a lot of control for customization.
You can maintain your data (product, page, entity) in a structured way.
Cons
Umbraco can initially be challenging for new users with limited or no development experience. After initial installation, there is a lot more work required to 'see' a site.
Umbraco isn't stable. For example, even on a fresh new site sometimes you'll get errors when trying to save something in the admin panel. It's not common, but it happens often enough to be annoying.
No out of the box contact forms. Umbraco sells their forms plugin that we've used in the past, but the plugin is disappointing. It isn't well maintained and it's very buggy. Making a new contact form with the paid plugin can take a lot of time to get everything right (fields, validation, confirmation emails, etc). This is especially frustrating for new users.
Documentation / resource links frequently 404. Umbraco seems to change their site URLs often enough that, when you encounter an issue, you're likely to find a number of bad links in Google's search results. This makes it difficult to research solutions to a problem.
Posts often go unanswered or without resolution in their community support forums. Hopefully this will improve as the community grows.
The update process is clumsy at best. Many people are familiar with the simple WordPress upgrade button for the core and plugins. This doesn't exist at all for Umbraco. Instead, you'll need to select specific files to overwrite and potentially update any old code references.
Migration between development environments is clumsy. Umbraco offers a premium plugin to address this because, as they state on the premium plugin page, deployments are "complicated, headache-inducing"
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Umbraco CMS when clients need design flexibility, more tailored content management, and structured data. Umbraco CMS is not for clients with little to no budget for technical/developer assistance. We don't recommend it for most small companies because they don't have the budget to maintain (read: troubleshoot and work around bugs) a platform like this.
Umbraco is used for custom projects (websites) for various clients. It is used as as framework (ASP.MVC 4) and content management system. It allows fast development of new websites, created from scratch. It allows non-professionals to create and manage content. Unlike PHP-based Drupal, Umbraco is based on ASP.Net and well fits into our company infrastructure.
Pros
Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding.
Doesn't require back-end programming.
Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site).
Clear admin tool (especially in version 7)
Fast.
Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code.
Cons
Courier plugin, used for staging is not always working well. Tool is used to push changes (database and some files) between stages of website (dev QA staging production, or whatever the configuration is set by developer. The tool is not 100% reliable.
Rare incidents of publishing error.
Doesn't have build in support for SASS, LESS, ..., so if one of those is used, needs to be done outside admin tool.
Small community of developers
Little documentation, video tutorials are not free
Not many plugins for extended functionality
Likelihood to Recommend
Umbraco is suitable when you need a clean code website with CMS or something that will work well on mobile devices. It is very scalable, [can even be ] used for a large website (100+ pages). When a company relies on ASP.Net environment, this is the CMS to go with.
