What is Plone?
It is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone is positioned as an "Enterprise CMS" and is commonly used for intranets and as part of the web presence of large organizations
Plone is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
Plone is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Plone's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Plone?
Companies
43 companies reportedly use Plone in their tech stacks, including Fraunhofer, Vectorworks, and Fhnw.ch.
Developers
27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Plone.
Plone Integrations
WordPress, Django, Drupal, Magento, and Episerver are some of the popular tools that integrate with Plone. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Plone.
Pros of Plone
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Plone's Features
- Enterprise integration
- Flexible workflows
- Industrial strength security
- Limitless extensibility
- Robust scalabilty
Plone Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Plone?
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Django CMS
It is user friendly and has a very intuitive drag and drop interface.
It's built around the needs of multi-lingual publishing by default. Its lightweight core makes it easy to integrate with other software and put to use immediately, while its ease of use makes it the go-to choice for content managers, content editors and website admins.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Zope
It is a family of free and open-source web application servers written in Python, and their associated online community. It stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment", and was the first system using the now common object publishing methodology for the Web
