Plone an Excelent Open Source, Well Documented CMS Solution
July 31, 2022

Plone an Excelent Open Source, Well Documented CMS Solution

Mauricio Quiroga-Pascal Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Plone

Is a old proven open source tool very flexible to communicate the content we need to our customer´s employees. We help our employees to design and implement strategies supported with our proprietary app. Thus, for us is very important to be able to have a flexible way to communicate:
  • Strategies
  • Goals
  • Best Practices
  • Whitepapers
  • Instructions
It´s easy to make changes in separate parts or our clients divisions. It´s easy to use the same content structures and exported to new situations.
  • Security
  • Scalability
  • Extensibility
  • Documentation Availability
  • Graphics and design
  • Notification customization
  • eCommerce Framework
  • It was costly to learn how to use it. However, then it's very easy to train new members of the team. We have lower training costs.
  • Since it is an old open source platform, there is a lot of documentation, codes, and experience to copy/adapt. We have lower development costs.
  • As it is very easy to change/manage content, it allows us to save a lot of IT external companies.
Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve
WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone.
Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better

Do you think Plone delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Plone's feature set?

Yes

Did Plone live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Plone go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Plone again?

Yes

Well Suited: When you need a lot of customization in the management of the content (our case).

Less Appropriate: When you have simple content management necessities. Since it is open source, the learning curve could be complex, so in simpler cases is much better to use simpler and broad use CMS solutions.

Plone Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
8
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
7
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
8
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
8
Form generator
8
Content taxonomy
7
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
9
API
9
Internationalization / multi-language
8
Role-based user permissions
8