No release this month the team has been heads-down on some bigger projects and will be back with updates soon. Here's everything else.
In the meantime, the community has been busy: three new marketplace add-ons worth knowing about, a football coaching site that shows off Concrete's permissions system in a way most people don't think about, and two genuinely exciting AI projects from longtime community member. Let's get into it.
New in the Marketplace
Three add-ons worth knowing about this month, presented by John the Fish.
First up is Embedded Vimeo Video by Brad Fogstrom. A block for adding Vimeo-hosted video to any page, with Vimeo-specific controls including orientation, title, byline, portrait, autoplay, looping, mute on load, and background mode. Video size is responsive and fits anywhere. One thing worth knowing: overriding Vimeo's default settings only works if the video itself allows it on the Vimeo side. If your block settings aren't sticking, that's likely why, not a bug. Free in the marketplace.
Next is AnveVoice by Adar Kant. This adds an AI voice assistant to your site that works in 50+ languages, 24/7. It works both ways: visitors speak naturally, the assistant responds. The AI is trained on your site's content and can answer questions, help with navigation, and fill forms. You'll need a free or paid AnveVoice account to make it work, but the Concrete package itself is free and there's a demo site to try before you commit.
The third is Dashboard Favorites Manager by Francisco Petroni. John the Fish's take: just install it, don't think about it twice. Concrete's dashboard is large and bookmarking frequently used pages matters. The core bookmarking is fine; managing those bookmarks has always been less than ideal. This package fixes that. You can live search pages, bookmark from the results list, bulk delete, reorder, import and export favorites, see full paths when two pages share a name, and access everything quickly from an optional toolbar star button. Free, on GitHub, and already highly recommended.
Site in the Wild: Technical Football Tuition
Technical Football Tuition is a coaching platform built around the idea that most players never get properly taught the technical fundamentals of the game. The creator has put together a structured curriculum organized as chapter-by-chapter online webbooks covering everything from first touch to game technique development. This is not a blog or a highlight reel. It's a serious educational resource with a lot of content to manage.
What makes it a useful Concrete showcase is the permissions setup. The site runs three tiers of access: free content anyone can browse, registered-only content that gates at login, and a full webbook library unlocked for subscribers. Coaches can buy subscriptions that cover their entire roster. All of that is handled entirely within Concrete's built-in permissions system, with no third-party membership plugins involved. The site owner manages who has access to what without needing a developer every time something changes.
From the Community: Atlas and the Concrete CMS MCP Server
Hissy from Macareux (formerly Concrete CMS Japan) posted two related projects in the forums that are worth your attention if you're thinking about AI and Concrete.
The first is Atlas, a framework built to let chat agents retrieve content from different CMSs. There's an adapter specifically for Concrete CMS. Install it on your site and your AI agents can retrieve data from it in a structured way, with Concrete's permissions respected. If you've ever tried connecting an LLM to a CMS and immediately hit questions like "how does the AI know who's logged in?" this is the kind of solution that handles that.
The second is a Concrete CMS MCP server, a separate project also from Macareux. Connect it to your agent and you can manage Concrete content through the agent directly. Both projects are in the forums. Check them out and let the team know what you think.
Community Thanks
GitHub activity this month came from janscarton, moriaiy, nayemkh, ccyclonic, patrickkasie, JeffPaetkau, digitmaster, broreece, mlocati, vmc874. Thank you all for submitting issues and keeping the project moving.