Plone CMS Reviews & Product Details

Plone has the foundation to support great customization through add-ons, version control, open source software, and easily modifiable permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not as 'polished' in terms of appearance, and there was definitely a learning curve. The initial struggle is definitely worth it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Thank God! It's open source. We (Vietnamese) are still in the process of development, and we prefer to use open source software/platforms because, firstly, it saves costs, and secondly, it allows us to freely build our own world (not just Hello World :D). Besides, Plone CMS has a strong community that allows developers to share knowledge and experiences, help each other hands-on, and so on, bringing more value/feedback to the Plone development team. 2. The CMS core workflow with deep customization enabler allows developers to freely customize and build on it. 3. Flexible permission management & customization allow developers to tailor business needs more accurately. 4. A wide range of categories that allow building CMS-based/Web-portals or web applications to meet customer requirements. 5. Security management is also the best. In my opinion, it's the most secure CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Some of my friends said that the UI/UX doesn't catch their attention, at least in comparison with WordPress regarding friendly UI/UX. 2. Caching is not good as it costs us a number of hours to monitor and clean up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When it comes to SEO Plone takes the cake due to the fact that it is designed in a very, very search engine friendly way right out of the box. There is no need for SEO experts tweaking the website to rank well, all you need to worry about is writing good content and give it meaningful titles to out-perform way bigger competitors for top-spot rankings. The main point how it achieves this is the creation of well structured URLs and the way this links persist even after you renamed content and therefor created a new URL for it.

An example: As a real estate agent you want to list your available houses in area XYZ. You create a folder "House in XYZ" and set a view for it that *yourdomain.com/house-in-xyz* shows the list of all the properties in XYZ. One actual properties is a pages with a titles "Beautiful 10 room pool villa" which is then available at *yourdomain.com/house-in-xyz/beautiful-pool-villa*. You decide to rename "House" to "Property", the new URL is then *yourdomain.com/property-in-xyz/beautiful-pool-villa* while *yourdomain.com/house-in-xyz/beautiful-pool-villa* still works and now points to the same content. Through this behaviour your previously indexed pages won't produce broken links.

Furthermore creates Plone automatically RSS feeds from your content which allows customers to subscribe to or which can utilised in automatic newsletter creation with tools as MailChimp.

If your main concern is being indexed best then Plone is a sure bet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a couple of things other CMS do clearly better. At the first login you'll recognise that the customers backend looks way less polished and sexy as Wordpress and others. While it is fine to work on the content itself without any theming skills it takes a trained person to work on the layout whatsoever. Even without any coding skill a WP site offers so much flexibility, from huge amounts of ready made themes to extensions for any purpose. Plone does not allow that, as a matter of fact you can't upload any extension at all. You'll need a developer who adds extensions to the buildout and manages the deployment. The lack of flexibility comes on the other hand with a huge boost of stability and security, there are simply not much vulnerabilities in Plone over the last years, which is good of course. Last but not least are the running costs of a Plone CMS clearly higher then with its competition. Even though the CMS is free you'll still need a hoster which charge significant more then low-priced PHP hosting services. You also need trained personal to work on the non-content parts which are usually more expensive then the Wordpress counterparts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to create new content types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the existing documentation is not very updated. But you can ask community anytime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

scalability; cms in user use is friendly; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IMO bottle neck is in using images; I had to make an overwork to handle them by static external system for better performance (*loading pages took some times even 16 seconds). I also dislike 3rd packages that the value of code some times was weak. From time to time I had a feeling that it was written by juniors with too many bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complete flexibility and possibility to customize to the extent needed. However integrating third-party applications and services into Plone on top of existing APIs is a common practice just like every other CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frameworks available for ecommerce is not as aggressive as compared to other CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Was easy to use as most people working on it were not professionals well versed with websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have to know a bit of coding to help in some places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the overall CMS and Admin panel. I also liked the database integration. Even I really liked the life cycle of every module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not dislike but not happy with the user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plone is based on Free Software

It was written in Python

It is considered by some as a robust and safe CMS

It can be used for the creation of blogs, business portal, e-commerce portal

It is based on the Zope framework, which is a development environment based on Python

It is multiplatform

It's Modular

It is multi-threaded, that is, you can configure an instance in multiple processors

Robust role management

It can be configured to offer a high availability scheme

It is based on ZODB, which is an object-oriented database that can be integrated with most relational database managers

Supports multiple protocols Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a fairly steep learning curve

Requires solid knowledge of web standards, development in python and various web development technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple elegantly designed side control menu

Lots and lots of customization options

The text editor is surprisingly simple and efficient and fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not quite a buzz around it, and so not a lot of support

I heard about by chance which is bad in itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.