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Plone vs Wagtail: What are the differences?
Plone: The Ultimate Enterprise CMS. It is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone is positioned as an "Enterprise CMS" and is commonly used for intranets and as part of the web presence of large organizations; Wagtail: A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience. Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.
Plone and Wagtail belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Plone are:
- Enterprise integration
- Flexible workflows
- Industrial strength security
On the other hand, Wagtail provides the following key features:
- A fast, attractive editor interface
- Complete control over design with standard Django templates
- Configure content types through standard Django models
Wagtail is an open source tool with 7.67K GitHub stars and 1.67K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Wagtail's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Plone
- Good Security1
Pros of Wagtail
- Highly customizable23
- Very Flexible18
- StreamFields are amazing18
- Web content management15
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content13
- Fast as hell11
- Easy setup10
- Customizable9
- Solid documentation7
- Very High Performance3
- Plugins & themes2
- No dynamic blocks nesting (e.g. like in Umbraco CMS)1
- Good for geeks and not for the business1
- Everything's a heavy lifting1
- The Wharton School0
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Cons of Plone
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Cons of Wagtail
- Not a full CMS: basic components require heavy coding3
- Small developer community2
- Expensive to develop1
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What is Plone?
It is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone is positioned as an "Enterprise CMS" and is commonly used for intranets and as part of the web presence of large organizations
What is Wagtail?
Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.
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What are some alternatives to Plone and Wagtail?
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Django CMS
It is user friendly and has a very intuitive drag and drop interface.
It's built around the needs of multi-lingual publishing by default. Its lightweight core makes it easy to integrate with other software and put to use immediately, while its ease of use makes it the go-to choice for content managers, content editors and website admins.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Zope
It is a family of free and open-source web application servers written in Python, and their associated online community. It stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment", and was the first system using the now common object publishing methodology for the Web