Plone

The main advantages of Plone can be considered ^{[1] [2]} :

• Ease of use - a new full-fledged website can be created in a few minutes (provided that Plone and the Zope platform on which it works are already installed and configured);
• Easy installation - using the installer, you can install Plone in a few minutes;
• Using Standards - All Plone visual components are built using XHTML , CSS 2, and JavaScript . The MediaWiki (Monobook) design is based on Plone styles;
• Openness - Plone is an open source software that allows you to make changes to the code if you have the appropriate specialists;
• Language support - Plone allows you to create sites with simultaneous support for many languages, including those using Arabic script or hieroglyphic writing. Users will see the site in the language specified in the web browser settings. Plone supports over 40 languages: ^[3] ;
• Independence - Plone distributions are available for many operating systems, including Linux , Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X , Solaris , BSD ;
• Availability of support - in addition to the large English-speaking community in Russia, several companies and many specialists are involved in Plone support;
• Extensibility - you can create your own unique website with a unique set of components very quickly and easily. There are hundreds of extension products for Plone and Zope .

Plone 3 has the following main features ^{[4] [5]} .

1. Inline editing
2. Working copy support
3. Link Checker
4. Automatically lock and unlock editable content
5. Convenient collaboration and sharing of resources
6. Versions, revision history, and rolling back content
7. Convenient and powerful visual text editor
8. Powerful workflow tools
9. Flexible authentication system
10. Full-text indexing of documents PDF , MS Word
11. Collections
12. Presentation mode for informational materials
13. Search engine sitemap protocol support
14. Support for multiple markup languages
15. Wiki availability
16. Auto Navigation Previous / Next
17. Automatic Processing Rules for Content
18. Automatic content generation
19. Portlets
20. Professional support, development, hosting ^[6] , training
21. Quick Search (LiveSearch)
22. Outstanding multilingual content support
23. Timed publishing
24. Readable URLs
25. Flexible navigation and current site maps
26. Resource Compression ( Javascript , CSS)
27. Cache Integration
28. Drag and drop content
29. Import and export site configuration ( XML )
30. Possibility of local workflow rules
31. Custom templates
32. Powerful predefined content types
33. Automatic formatting of printable content
34. Standard XHTML and CSS
35. Meet content accessibility requirements (e.g., for people with disabilities)
36. Ubiquitous RSS feed support
37. Auto Image Scaling
38. Rich ecosystem of third-party complementary products ^[7]
39. Cross-platform
40. Easy to use installers for many platforms
41. Ability to comment on any content
42. Microformat Support
43. FTP and WebDAV support
44. Hot backup
45. Cut / Copy / Paste operations on content

For installation and administration, Plone requires ^[8] :

1. connected to the Internet or Intranet server
2. console access to the server (FTP is not enough)
3. the ability to run background processes - daemons
4. the opportunity to open your port

Content editing is done via the web and requires nothing but a web browser , preferably with JavaScript support.

Not all hosting providers offer Zope preinstalled. However, finding the right hosting with pre-installed Python is usually not a problem.

You can install and manage the Plone assembly using Buildout .

• The CMS Plone runs the FBI website.

• Martin Aspeli Professional Plone 4 Development. - Packt Publishing Ltd., 2011 .-- 516 p. - ISBN 9781849514422 .

• Plone Main Portal
• Support portal for Russian-speaking users Plone (inactive since about 2006 )
•   Wikimedia Commons has Plone related media files