TrustRadius Insights for Plone are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Usability for Content Editors: Plone's usability for content editors has received high praise from users. They appreciate how it eliminates the need for a separate admin interface, making it less confusing. Users find it intuitive and efficient to edit or create content directly in the relevant location.
Modeling Specific Workflows: The ability to model specific workflows is considered one of Plone's greatest strengths by many users. They commend its flexibility in assigning different roles and permissions to staff members for different sections of the site, resulting in better content management and control.
Theming Capabilities with Diazo: With the introduction of Diazo, Plone's theming capabilities have significantly improved as highlighted by users. They value the virtually unlimited flexibility offered by mapping page elements into existing HTML themes, which allows them to easily select and adapt designs from other platforms.
Plone is widely being used in our organization: from public websites to intranets, customized LMSs or customized sites designed to do some special thing, to smaller sites and different portals. We have had video publishing platforms, payment systems, customized forms, workflows and countless integrations to other internal and external systems. Plone is an extremely solid and safe platform to use, which is very important for us as a university. The content management is easy to use, and customization options are limitless. Especially important for us is the robust, yet flexible permission management; we may, if we want, to control the access permissions to a smallest detail in every page available.
Pros
Easy to use content management
Lots of features out of the box
Excellent security
Flexible permission management
Flexible workflow system
Limitless possibilities to extend and customize, also through the web without programming skills
Free to use, open source
Helpful and welcoming community
Customizable content types
Robustness
Accessibility
Multilingual features
Cons
As a big and mature system it might take time to learn how to develop
Not as well known as some other CMSs
Not so easy to find external developers, if needed
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for: Huge public sites with hundreds of content managers and granulated permissions Intranets with hundreds of content managers and granulated permissions Customized services with workflows, automated content rules and integrations. Sites that require excellent safety and flexibility to develop further. International, multi-language sites. Customized forms. Not so good fit for small sites with little amount of content editors