Plone (software)

Plone is an enterprise content management system, written in the Python programming language. Version 1 was released in 2002. It can be used for intranet and extranet applications, as Document publishing system and used as a groupware tool for long stretches. Numerous extensions allow the application for every conceivable application server tasks: for example, in e-learning, as an online shop, or as a photo album.

It builds on the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework, which is supported by thousands of developers around the world. Plone is regarded as the most successful project based on Zope. With Plone is through the use of the framework Archetypes very simple ( and Others UML - based means ArchGenXML ) develop their own web applications.

Plone supports various WYSIWYG editors, since the release 2.1 of the free Kupu editor is included. TinyMCE has been solving Plone 4 Kupu as the default editor from. Content can be shared across workflows, with the visibility and various permissions of the content objects can be defined in various states. The Plone interface is multilingual, with the expansion product LinguaPlone also multilingual content can be managed.

The Plone Collective is a collection of add-on products for the free use on Plone pages. It mostly contains applications that have already been implemented on numerous other platforms, such as a forum, a blog or a newsletter. A good overview of available expansion modules can be found on the Plone project page.