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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Plone CMS?
I like the Wiki-like engine that Plone uses. It is very easy to add nested/hierarchical information. We use it for documentation of technical information about various systems and locations. It is generally flexible enough for most basic needs, but also has a few flaws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Plone CMS?
The text editor is extremely basic and is missing many WYSIWYG items. Adding screenshots and links is also more convolution that it should really be. Link icon doesn't allow you to make an external link, it is for internal linking only, while the globe icon is for external linking.
System also doesn't not assign unique ID numbers to new items, making it less of a knowledge base and more of a structured data repository. You have to define structure and then populate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
18 out of 19 Total Reviews for Plone CMS
3.7 out of 5
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Ivon G.
Operations Customer Service Representative
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Plone CMS?
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.
What do you dislike about Plone CMS?
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.
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Giang N.
Project Lead
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
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.
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Jens K.
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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.
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Ghiță B.
Web Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
AI
Verified User in Internet
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Plone CMS?
scalability; cms in user use is friendly; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Plone CMS?
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.
CR
Verified User in Retail
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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.
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Lincy G.
Administrative Assistant - Immigration
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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.
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Deepak S.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
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.
EH
Eduardo H.
Consultor de desarrollo de productos
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Plone CMS?
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.
What do you dislike about Plone CMS?
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.
AE
Verified User in Education Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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.
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