Plone CMS Reviews

Plone has the foundation to support great customization through add-ons, version control, open source software, and easily modifiable permissions.

Not as 'polished' in terms of appearance, and there was definitely a learning curve. The initial struggle is definitely worth it!

The first months having Plone implemented as my former department's new website content manager, the 'IT' team pushed for feedback and suggestions because for the first time the department had the ability to utilize a CMS that could be adjusted to be more accessible for the less technologically inclined.

It is very easy to create new content types.

Sometimes the existing documentation is not very updated. But you can ask community anytime.

Just ask (colleagues / community) when something seems complicated.

I'm working for some websites used by a large number of people. Plone is strong, robust, stable.

It combines the best of both worlds; It's open source, yet it's widely compatible to be integrated with a lot of platforms/systems, modular, safe and secure, and customizable.

There's a wide list if really BIG users, so the support and developer community is also big

Needs some getting used to, at least for me.

.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

I use Plone to manage more than 30 websites: corporate website, local websites, blog and company intranet and it fits for all needs I had. I have a complex infrastructure to manage all resources that are used across the different websites (events, PRs, articles, resources, training courses) to avoid duplication of contents. I used Plone over more than 8 years changing multiple times the design, structure and overall organization and I've not had big issues or features I couldn't develop.

I manage more than 10 languages, including Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

I am totally autonomous to manage my contents including combining the different elements using multiple layouts (defined with the agency). So I have the flexibility to create different pages without asking to the IT. I only need the designer/developer if I need to create a new layout or a new feature.

We easely integrated Plone with multiple external systems: Marketo (Marketing Automation Tool), Microsoft Dynamics (CRM), Mediadrop (video library).

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

Was easy to use as most people working on it were not professionals well versed with websites

You have to know a bit of coding to help in some places

it's robust, limitless possibilities - we were 10 different countries working on the same system.

I like overall CMS and Admin panal. I also liked data base integration.

Even I really life cycle of Evey module.

Not dislike but not happy with user Interface.

I was creating business website with admin, teacher and user role was important. I used it around 5 years ago.

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.

Framworks available for ecommerce is not as aggressive as compared to other 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.

Ecommrece store development.

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.