What users are saying about
Contentful vs Plone
27 Ratings
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Based on 27 reviews and ratings
22 Ratings
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Based on 22 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Plone ranks higher in 4 feature sets: Security, Platform & Infrastructure, Web Content Creation, Web Content Management
Security

9.0
Contentful
90%

10.0
Plone
100%
Plone ranks higher in 1/1 features
Plone ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions

9.0
90%
5 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure

7.7
Contentful
77%

10.0
Plone
100%
Plone ranks higher in 2/2 features
Plone ranks higher in 2/2 features
API

7.0
70%
5 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language

8.5
85%
3 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Web Content Creation

7.2
Contentful
72%

9.3
Plone
93%
Plone ranks higher in 7/8 features
Plone ranks higher in 7/8 features
WYSIWYG editor

7.3
73%
4 Ratings

9.0
90%
5 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness

9.0
90%
4 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Admin section

8.0
80%
6 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Page templates

7.6
76%
4 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Library of website themes

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

5.0
50%
4 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design

7.2
72%
2 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Publishing workflow

4.0
40%
6 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Form generator

7.0
70%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Web Content Management

6.9
Contentful
69%

9.4
Plone
94%
Plone ranks higher in 5/5 features
Plone ranks higher in 5/5 features
Content taxonomy

6.0
60%
5 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
SEO support

8.1
81%
4 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Bulk management

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions

4.1
41%
4 Ratings

8.0
80%
4 Ratings
Community / comment management

9.0
90%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Plone is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

8.0
Contentful
80%
7 Ratings

10.0
Plone
100%
12 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

8.3
Plone
83%
10 Ratings
Usability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Plone
100%
1 Rating
Performance

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Plone
90%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
Web Marketing Manager
Lively, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Plone
The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
Principal - Soliton Consulting
University of WashingtonComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Pros
Contentful
- Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
- High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
- Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
Digital Strategist
Sherpa Design Co.Design, 1-10 employees
Plone
- Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
- Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
- Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
Owner
Studio ZOOInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
Contentful
- The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
- The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
- It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Lead Developer
SaaSquatchMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Plone
- Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
- Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
- Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
Software Engineer
Ancestry.comComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Contentful
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0
Contentful Editions & Modules
Edition
Community | Free |
---|---|
Team | 489/month |
Enterprise | Custom |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Plone
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Plone Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Plone
Plone 8.3
Based on 10 answers
I no longer use Plone because I got an internship in the web development field and my current place of employment uses their own content management system that they created. After getting to know other CMS's and similar software and comparing them to Plone, I would enjoy using Plone again in the future, but there are more complicated software that I'd like to learn as I progress in my field of study.
Social Media Intern
BrownBoots Interactive, Inc.Higher Education, 11-50 employees
Usability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Plone
Plone 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small
IT Specialist
University of JyväskyläResearch, 1001-5000 employees
Performance
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Plone
Plone 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
Technical Manager
KitovuInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Contentful
Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
SEO Specialist
BambooHRComputer Software, 201-500 employees
Plone
Among the open source CMSs Plone is most reliable to develop large and complex application because is codebase is maintained with an object oriented approach where each parts is strictly independent from the others. So you can deeply customize it and it is still secure and efficient. We have not had the same experience with other CMSs that were great in doing their jobs, but could not be easily customized. At least with the same productivity as Plone.
Chief Technology Officer
Redomino S.r.l.Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Contentful
- Positive: faster changes and new associates can easily navigate without prior training/knowledge of CMS to make content updates
- Negative: Our website manager/provider can keep certain abilities (like changing specific images) so they can charge a fee for making the change
Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC
FirstService Residential New YorkReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
Plone
- Before Plone there were couple of dozens of web editors. Now it is in the hundreds. That leads to more information on the websites and more accuracy.
- Through the good SEO properties of Plone, our content is more easily found on Google compared to some of our competitors.
- Plone being an Open Source product there hasn't been any license payments for a decade.
Information Systems Analyst
University of JyväskyläResearch