Plone
Plone is a free, user
friendly, and open source content management system running on top of
Python,
Zope and the CMF.
The software is suited for an internal website or may be used
as a server on the Internet, playing such roles as a document
publishing system and groupware collaboration tool. It offers a good,
low maintenance intranet/portal system.
Plone's Web-based administrative interface is optimized for
standards, allowing it to work with most common web browsers, and uses
additional accessibility standards to help users who have disabilities.
All of
Plone's features are customizable, and free add-ons are available from
the Plone website.
It benefits from all features of Zope/CMF such as: RDBMS
integration, Python/Perl
extensions, Object Oriented Database,
Web configurable workflow, pluggable membership and authentication,
Undos, Form validation, amongst many many other features. Available
protocols: FTP, XMLRPC, HTTP, WEBDAV and you can hack it to
enable SOAP. Turn it into a distributed application system by
installing ZEO.
Plone shares some of the qualities of Livelink, Interwoven and
Documentum. It aims to be *the* open source out-of-the-box publishing
system.
The software ships with some basic tools and functionality,
but a lot of its strength comes from the specialized applications that
run inside it.
Features include:
- Inline Ajax-powered editing
- Working Copy support
- Link and reference integrity checking
- Automatic locking and unlocking which prevents people from
overwriting each others changes, but makes it easy to unlock
accidentally locked content
- Collaboration and sharing. Control who can:
- View content
- Edit content
- Approve content for publishing
- Add new content
- Versioning, history and reverting content
- Get a full version history of edits
- Compare certain revisions of the document with others
- Revert to an earlier version of the document
- Upgraded visual HTML editor, Kupu 1.4, a powerful,
easy-to-use graphical HTML editor
- Workflow capabilities to model organizational
processes and keep track of approval chains.
- Authentication back-end to centralize logins and
passwords, and to integrate with an organization's existing systems
- Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents
- Collections to construct dynamic searches, reports
and queries — without writing any code.
- Presentation mode for content to create slides
that are both printable and projectable
- Support for the search engine Sitemap
protocol which ensures that publicly visible content is
indexed properly
- Support for multiple mark-up formats: Markdown, Textile,
Structured Text, Restructured Text, and Plain Text
- Wiki support
- Automatic previous/next navigation
- Rules engine for content; perform operations on
content with event triggers
- Auto-generated tables of contents - to navigate
large documents
- Portlets engine
- Support, development, hosting & training
- LiveSearch
- Multilingual content management with native
support for the LinguaPlone
component
- Time-based publishing
- Human-readable URLs to increase search engine visibility
and make URLs easier to understand and remember
- Powerful graphical page editor; to produce consistent
layouts
- Navigation and updated site maps
- Resource compression; automatically combines and
compresses CSS and Javascript
- Caching proxy integration with the CacheFu add-on
- Drag and drop reordering of content
- XML exports of site configurations to make it easier to
backup and replicate site setups
- Localized workflow configuration
- Adjustable templates on content
- Standard content types
- Content is automatically formatted for printing
- automatically removes the header, navigation and any other
irrelevant information using CSS
- Standards-compliant XHTML and CSS
- Accessibility compliant
- RSS feed support
- Automatic image scaling and thumbnail generation
- Free add-on products
- Cross-platform
- Comment capabilities on any content
- Microformat support (hCalendar, rel-tag formats)
- Installer packages for multiple platforms
- WebDAV and FTP support
- In-context editing
- "Hot Backup" support
- Cut/copy/paste operations on content
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