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Plone

Overview

What is Plone?

Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.

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Plone has gained popularity across various organizations for its versatility and customizable features. Users have leveraged this platform …
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Plone - A Superb CMS

10 out of 10
March 01, 2014
Plone is the software used to manage the content on the entire University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's website. My place of work (the department …
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Popular Features

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  • API (5)
    9.0
    90%
  • WYSIWYG editor (6)
    8.0
    80%
  • Role-based user permissions (5)
    8.0
    80%
  • Code quality / cleanliness (5)
    8.0
    80%
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Pricing

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What is Plone?

Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.

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Product Demos

Publisher's Plone theme

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Ploneconf 2020: Getting Started with your Plone site

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Plone Workflow

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PloneEdu hangout: plone.app.toolbar, and how to build a workflow application

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collective.takeaportrait: face detection and webcam Plone demo

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Plone 4 Demo - How to manage content

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.5
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.8
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Plone?

Plone is a free and open source mobile and multichannel capable content management system built on top of the Zope application server. In principle, Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites. It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool. The strengths of Plone are its flexible and adaptable workflow, very good security, extensibility, high usability and flexibility. Its users are varied from large enterprises to small businesses, non-profits, universities, and governments. It is available on any platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.

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Reviewers rate Page templates and SEO support highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Plone are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Plone has gained popularity across various organizations for its versatility and customizable features. Users have leveraged this platform to create a wide range of solutions, including video publishing platforms, payment systems, customized forms, workflows, and integrations with other internal and external systems. Plone's solid and secure platform has made it a preferred choice for universities and organizations that prioritize security. The easy-to-use content management system in Plone allows for limitless customization options, making it suitable for both public websites and intranets. With robust and flexible permission management, users have precise control over access permissions on every page. Plone is widely used by universities like the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and the University of Jyväskylä to manage the content on their entire websites. It enables multiple users to collaborate on editorial work effortlessly. For over a decade, Plone has been extensively utilized to deploy websites, intranets, document management systems, and collaboration portals for clients. Its scalability, complex workflow configuration, permission management capabilities, external authentication system integration, and content revision tracking are highly valued by users. Plone serves as a powerful tool for effectively communicating a variety of content types such as strategies, goals, best practices, whitepapers, and instructions. Moreover, it has proven to be an efficient solution for developing help pages related to ICT products, reducing the need for additional help desk support. The reliability and versatility of Plone have made it a popular choice among both public administrations and private companies in building solid e-government solutions without incurring additional license fees. Users appreciate how easy it is to learn and use Plone from the perspective of the final user.

Usability for Content Editors: Plone's usability for content editors has received high praise from users. They appreciate how it eliminates the need for a separate admin interface, making it less confusing. Users find it intuitive and efficient to edit or create content directly in the relevant location. Modeling Specific Workflows: The ability to model specific workflows is considered one of Plone's greatest strengths by many users. They commend its flexibility in assigning different roles and permissions to staff members for different sections of the site, resulting in better content management and control. Theming Capabilities with Diazo: With the introduction of Diazo, Plone's theming capabilities have significantly improved as highlighted by users. They value the virtually unlimited flexibility offered by mapping page elements into existing HTML themes, which allows them to easily select and adapt designs from other platforms.

Higher System Requirements: Some users have expressed that Plone has higher system requirements compared to other CMSs, resulting in increased hosting costs. This can be a deterrent for individuals or organizations with limited resources.

Difficult Development and Lack of Documentation: Several reviewers have found Plone development to be challenging to learn, and they have mentioned the lack of comprehensive documentation as an obstacle. This makes it harder for new users to grasp the intricacies of Plone and effectively utilize its features.

Limited Provider Options: According to user feedback, there are only a few providers capable of running Plone websites. This limited availability may restrict users' choices when it comes to selecting suitable hosting providers that align with their specific requirements and preferences.

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At this stage the outlook for Plone in the future is very positive. The development community is still very active, updates are still coming out on a regular basis and the roadmap goes well into the future. We are confident that Plone will continue to improve and keep up with the demands of web CMS needs. We also dont see any other product in the opensource space that can replace Plone at the moment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Plone has a very strong and professional community behind it. We are comfortable using Plone and we managed how to build successful products for our clients with its application stack. Security is also very important today and Plone gave us a great stability in our systems architecture with small time spent in maintenance and software fixes.
Ronnie Stevens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Plone is developing very fast. There is a lot of work being done to remove all the old code, making it the number one modern open source CMS. It is necessary to keep renewing my knowledge of Plone, to make sure my clients get the best of this beautiful CMS.
Fabrizio Reale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Plone has been used for more than ten years and it already has an interesting roadmap for its future. I do not know any other open source CMS with the same story of continuous evolution and security track. Interesting new features are added at each release and new modules are created continuously.
Jussi Talaskivi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Plone has served us well so far. There haven't been any serious contenders to challenge it. Sharepoint is sometimes mentioned but the real benefits for making the switch doesn't really add up. It is a lousy system on which to do custom development and is ill suited to public websites. We would get some integration benefits for our desktops but when we are moving more and more to the mobile space so it's a kind of a moot point.
March 01, 2014

Plone - A Superb CMS

Gracie Wardin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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