--- title: Plone CMS Reviews meta\_title: 'Plone CMS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Plone CMS works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Plone CMS Reviews & Product Details Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide. It is widely accepted that Plone has the strongest security functionality of any open source CMS available today. * * * Seller [Plone Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/plone-foundation) Discussions [Plone CMS Community](https://www.g2.com/products/plone-cms/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish Overview by Jean-Paul Ladage (Internet Consultant, ik help kennisintensieve organisaties met ontwikkelen van effectieve web applicaties) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 9 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/plone-cms/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![django CMS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "django CMS") django CMS 4.3/5(11) ](https://www.g2.com/products/django-cms/reviews) [ ![Drupal](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Drupal") Drupal 3.9/5(425) ](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) [ ![Joomla](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joomla") Joomla 4/5(388) ](https://www.g2.com/products/joomla/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/plone-cms/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Giang N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Giang N.") GN Giang N. Project Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/24/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Plone CMS is one of the best CMS platform i've ever used" 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? 1. Thanks God! It's open source. We (Vietnamese) are still in process of development period, we would consider prefer to use open source software/platform than rather than other because of First - save cost, Second - freely to build your own world (not just Hello World :D). Besides, Plone CMS having a strong community allow developer to share knowledge and experiences, help each other hands-on and so on, bring more value/feedback to Plone development team. 2. CMS core workflow with deep customization enabler allow developer freely to custom and build on it. 3. Flexible permission management & customization allow developer to tailor business needs more accurately 4. Wide range of categories that would freely to build CMS-based/Web-portal or web application to meet customer requirements 5.Security management also best. In my opinion, it's most secure CMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? 1. Some of my friends said that UI/UX doesnt catch their attention, at least in comparison with Wordpress about friendly UI/UX 2.Caching is not good as it costs us number of hours to monitor and clean up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: OCR technical based software that would help automatically scan and store form field from end users. Besides, AI and Face detection also would need to be add-in as well because of python advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Vietnamese translation with Unicode enable and workflow customization. We have deep customize on the workflow to adapt our complicated customer approval workflow - allow a user to play multiple roles or even if restrict editor roles. Besides, i bring more features to build up a complete web portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jens K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jens K.") JK Jens K. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/22/2020 "Plone CMS - SEO boss but not exactly sexy" 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? 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. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? 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. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: Just use it if you mean serious business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? I recommend Plone to customers who intent to make serious business that relies on excellent Search engine results, stability and security rather then low costs and flexibility. We enabled multiple real estate agents to succeed in highly competitive markets against way bigger companies with way higher advertisement budgets to be listed in the first and second place without additional SEO marketing. This clearly can apply to many different business models but is not a one-fits-all solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") CR Verified User in Retail Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2020 "Plone Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? 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. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? Framworks available for ecommerce is not as aggressive as compared to other CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: Your projects become reality either by implementing it yourself or by bringing the necessary money for having it implemented by someone. There are no readily available out of the box solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Ecommrece store development. Benefit is the ability to use Python Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lincy G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lincy G.") LG Lincy G. Administrative Assistant - Immigration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/29/2020 "Simple and easy to use" 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? 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. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? You have to know a bit of coding to help in some places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? it's robust, limitless possibilities - we were 10 different countries working on the same system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Deepak S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Deepak S.") DS Deepak S. Senior Ruby on Rails Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/27/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "I used it around 5 years ago. I rally liked CMS and his capablaity." 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? I like overall CMS and Admin panal. I also liked data base integration. Even I really life cycle of Evey module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? Not dislike but not happy with user Interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? I was creating business website with admin, teacher and user role was important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/12/2019 "Surprisingly, a very good CMS that's not getting the attention it deserves" 4/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? 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. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? 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. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: Give it a try. Do not be turned away by the name not being very popular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Elegant simple and efficient CMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in E-Learning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in E-Learning") AE Verified User in E-Learning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/16/2019 "Good CMS" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? - Nice, stable, with a good user interface and an easy straight forward setup process. - We use it for a news portal, not the most complicated thing out there but it does the job and works nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? Versioning is not the best out there, especially for a content website where I'd like to keep many versions of the same page and go back and forth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: Nice CMS solution depending on what you want to use it for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? CMS, news portal management and user community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Publishing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Publishing") AP Verified User in Publishing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/17/2019 "Intuitive and easy to use CMS" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? Nice and neat side navigation menu Good admin interface, nicely designed with everything accessible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? Not a very popular solution, not much compatible plugins/add-ons and themes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plone CMS: The basic package is very nice, you should not need much 3rd party add-ons Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? CMS solution for all basic needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/8/2018 "User friendly, but basic skills needed" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Plone CMS? In general, Plone has an intuitive interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plone CMS? There are some confusing features in Plone that a beginning user could struggle with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plone CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? We can work as a team in content management, and access levels can be assigned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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