Umbraco CMS Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.7 out of 10

Score

6.7 out of 10

Community insights

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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.

Reviews

12 Reviews

Best CMS for .NET Developers

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Umbraco CMS for a customer who wanted to move from WordPress to Umbraco. We used Umbraco to migrate existing blogs, also built modules to create product marketing pages. We also leveraged Umbraco's multilingual capabilities to create localized versions of the website for customer's European and Asian markets.

Pros

Custom page management with document types and templates
Excellent razor support for scripting
Multilingual support
Easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor
Fast page load times and efficient in-built caching
Role-based access control

Cons

Umbraco hosting on AWS cloud and containers
Official support with Amazon S3 for media management
Quality (dive deep) tutorials on YouTube

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMS is best suited for developing content-rich websites that require dynamic pages with extensive customization options. It's even great for .NET developers who want to use their existing expertise rather than learning WordPress or other CMS platforms.

Would not recommend Umbraco for small business websites with simple content needs where the complexity of Umbraco might be overkill.

Verified User

Engineer in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Umbraco is a No Go

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco is used as the main website for one of the business units. With that being said, it was used for the whole organization as a core point of content for technical documents and reference materials for our product. It addressed the problem of not having a functional website and met security needs.

Pros

Very simple content management.
Secure, no hacking because no one knows how to use it

Cons

Not user friendly.
Need to be a programmer to do anything cool.
Not compatible with common digital marketing applications.
Very cumbersome, blocky.
Horrible user interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

I didn't like Umbraco at all. It was already in place by someone who didn't have an SEO background. I evaluated an upgrade from Umbraco to Wordpress or Hubspot CMS and definitely beyond a doubt Umbraco couldn't compete. I have been for years easily updating content in CMS including currently working in Ruby on Rails and in my perspective, Umbraco is one of the worst. It would never be a choice for anywhere that cares about SEO and being found on the web for marketing. Maybe it's ok for an internal library or something but I wouldn't waste my time.

Lori Jerome

Digital Content Manager in Marketing at Premier Building Systems (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Couldn't and wouldn't live without Umbraco.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 1, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Attityde ApS, Silkeborg we develop all our customer solutions with Umbraco. If the customer demands anything else, we send them away! From giant to tiny companies, and through the use of Umbraco, our projects are always a success thanks to the flexibility of Umbraco. 500+ Umbraco sites and counting... Even our own website, intranet, and special products are based on Umbraco. We would be able to provide the same fantastic solutions if it wasn't for Umbraco... and we wouldn't want it any other way.

Pros

Content Hierarchy/tree
Media section
Plugins (Custom made)

Cons

Out of the box web-templates

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco is well suited if you want to host the website yourself or if our customers want them on their own server. It's easy to get started though our own instance-system were we can spin-up customer sites within 4 minutes.

If you just want to have a borring-wp-a-like site that looks like everything else on the internet, Umbraco is not the best solution. It's more time consuming to get a proper website up and running.

Janus Kamp Hansen

Developer in Information Technology at attityde.dk (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Umbraco is the friendly CMS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco is really what it says, a friendly CMS.

It is nice and easy for developing web sites and has many very good features.

Pros

The ease to use compositions (= interfaces)
Media handling, Image scaling
The user interface

Cons

Umbraco Heartcore is too expensive

Likelihood to Recommend

Whenever there is a need for a small/medium-sized web site Umbraco CMS is a good choice. For larger multi-language sites there are probably better choices.

Jerker Edenborg

System Developer in Engineering at Net Relations (501-1000 employees)

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10 years of experience

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Real world experience with Umbraco

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a web development company and we set clients up with Umbraco.

Pros

Templating
Code editing
Back office usability

Cons

The update process is HORRIBLE!
Every release has bugs. NOT ONE release is BUG FREE!
Fixing issues quickly. We often have to wait over 30 days are months for something as simple as a media picker to be updated.

Likelihood to Recommend

I like using Umbraco, but the update process is a PIA compared to WordPress. We have clients on WordPress and try to sell them on the idea of switching, but the maintenance to update Umbraco is a road block. Our clients don't have to pay to have their WordPress site updated. There are bugs in every release and the release schedule is mind numbing. Almost every other week there is a new release and with 20 web sites in Umbraco, it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with the maintenance and bill our clients for something that should have worked to begin with. Umbraco is more like a hobbyist CMS and is not quite ready for prime time. I would pay for a CMS to be bug free. The cloud option for Umbraco is not an option for us and honestly I find it impossible for the cloud option to be updated "automatically" while professional developers have issues with simple updates.

Verified User

Professional in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Very simple but complete, Umbraco CMS will help you organization to go online in a very short time.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

<ul><li>Umbraco CMS is well suited for a small and medium size company and organization. The time to market is not long.</li><li>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)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Umbraco our 2nd and final choice

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We create our website, so it is used by the whole organization and all our potential customers. We manage Umbraco CMS by a person in the marketing department, and a little work is done by developers. We also change Umbraco a little to suit the needs required by the marketing department as very important.

Pros

customization
good prepared SEO
integration with other software

Cons

a little more ready templates
e-commerce integration out of the box
easier URL configuration

Likelihood to Recommend

As I write, Umbraco is very good in customization, also customization by programmers, but sometimes it needs quite a lot of knowledge to develop something. It is also very scalable and it is the best CMS framework in .net programming. There is not too much competition in this area, though maybe I would like to have a little bigger community

Jakub Wilk

President & Co-Founder in Information Technology at Enovatio (1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Easy to use CMS

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Umbraco to build our company company website. It's a great tool and very easy to use, it allows me to [have] different roles from editor through to admin. The CMS is simple to use, each employee has been able to use it independently with very little training.

The system has allowed us to integrate our digital marketing into web pages, so for the end user, the process of completing forms is seamless.

We have been so impressed with the umbraco CMS that we currently use this tool to deliver [our] website to our customers.

The main reason we chose this tool was we wanted a site that could be updated and maintained by anybody, and we wanted to avoid having to wait for the development team to make a simple change to the site.

Pros

Simple to use
Different people can be assigned different roles
Easy to keep the site updated with the latest information, no technical knowledge needed
Accessibility features can be turned on

Cons

If you miss an update on the software, issues can happen if you jump to far ahead of where you are
Search could be improved on the site

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMS is the perfect tool for a company that is looking to keep their website updated. The simple to use tools and templates means updating and creating new pages is easy. The WYSIWYG editor is a nice feature, however, for accessibility, there should be some more guidance on what is suitable to be used on the CMS.

Debbie Marshall

Operations Manager at CDSM Interactive Solutions (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Umbraco CMS is great for publishing sites that want to use a .NET code base

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 29, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco CMS is the content management system for our entire website. It is used by the whole organization, but mostly the Content team, which uses it for publishing, and the Technology and Events teams. It addresses the need for a powerful, yet customizable management system that can host a wide range of content and media types.

Pros

Plugins - as an open source CMS, Umbraco is very customizable and flexible to the needs of the organization
Publishing - Umbraco has powerful tools for publishing
Media hosting

Cons

Speed for older sites - Umbraco content can load slowly if you have thousands of pages of content. Of course, this would not be a problem for simpler websites
Complexity - since the product is free out-of-the-box, it will take technical expertise to get Umbraco setup properly

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco is well suited for websites that are looking to do a wide range of activities that require complex technoligies. An example of this is a company with several different products or services. Umbraco would be overkill for simple sites that are mostly static. It is also difficult to find developers who have Umbraco experience, as it's market share is not all that high.

Jason Kelly

Data Manager in Information Technology at Foundation for Economic Education (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Umbraco CMS review and comparison to other CMS systems

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 14, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we have one client that uses Umbraco CMS. It filled their need of moving off of static HTML pages to a .NET CMS system that did not have prohibitive costs/licensing fees. The client only has one developer on hand, so this provided a way to democratize content updates across a larger user base.

Pros

Data architecture
Templating System
Permissions/Workflow
Updating system files from CMS admin

Cons

Migration of data between servers. There are tools that you can pay for that help facilitate this, but like any CMS system, there are still some tricks to getting it to work correctly.
Running as a Web Project instead of a Web Site. Umbraco does not run compiled code, but instead compiles it on the fly. I find this to cause some performance issues that would otherwise be resolved with a compiled code base.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMD is well suited for users looking for a .NET based CMS system without the high licensing fees that come with a system like Sitecore. It allows the developer to easily get up and running, model data, create front end templates, and get a framework of a site out quickly. It is also easy to extend the built in functionality with your own .NET libraries. For enterprise level users, Umbraco might not have quite enough juice to model and deliver content efficiently.

Alex Lada

Tech Director in Information Technology at Liberty Concepts (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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