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    Plone

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APlone 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.N/A
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    Plone
    Editions & Modules
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    Plone
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Plone
    Considered Both Products
    Plone
    Chose Plone
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Plone
    Since 2004, when we first started using Plone, here hasn't been any feature or request or system that we couldn't have been done with Plone.

    Sometimes there have been cases, where we pilot or test other workflow-based systems, but usually the problems come with licences …
    Incentivized
    Chose Plone
    Plone is much harder to learn then Wordpress. Development in Wordpress is learnt in day's, where development in Plone really takes years to get to the full depth. That said, once you're able to develop in Plone, is it a rock solid system, with readable code. In my experience …
    Chose Plone
    Plone may be more complicated than Wordpress when considering organizational factors and overall use, but for a reason. It has further capabilities than Wordpress and other content management systems. It takes slight training to learn, but it provides great knowledge that many …
    Chose Plone
    We selected Plone for the ease of use.
    Chose Plone
    I did not select Plone. It was the choice of the organization we were doing the contract work for. I did not look into other products.
    Chose 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 …
    Chose Plone
    Plone is really almost the only truly enterprise opensource CMS. Most of its opensource competitors cant compete in this area, while they may have some nice editing tools, and some cool features, Plone stands our for its security, scalability, version control, highly …
    Chose Plone
    The security is much better with Plone than most of its competitors. It is also written in Python which makes it a better target for internal software development than PHP (which as a language is quite broken). Plone's component architecture makes our own extensions more …
    Chose Plone
    Plone is highly customizable as are the products above. But Plone offers many other design features and standards which others don't. Plone also has the largest open source community providing new modules and ideas for you to add to plone.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Plone
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Plone
    Feature
    Plone
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Plone
    Feature
    Plone
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    API9.05 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Plone
    Feature
    Plone
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.05 Ratings
    Admin section7.05 Ratings
    Page templates10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.05 Ratings
    Form generator8.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Plone
    Feature
    Plone
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.05 Ratings
    SEO support10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management5.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.05 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Plone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)