Plone – An Amazing CMS
Plone (http://plone.org/ ), a Python based Content Management System (CMS) built on top of the open source application server Zope, is one of the best Open Source CMS among paid & open source CMS available.
One of its great feature is, it allows you to write Python script / create templates / any customization thru the web (TTW ) & run instantly.
You can never lose you changes as it maintains the complete history of changes and you can compare the differences among different versions online.
Another cool feature is you can write the rules for any content type when it is created/update/delete/moved/copies etc using the Rules Engines to manage your content or initiate any approval workflow etc.
Some of its nice features are as below:
Authentication & Authorization
Flexible Authentication back-end, can be integrated with LDAP / Active Directory or any other source
Security
Users, groups & permission management
Live Search
Multi-lingual support
Content Publishing
Workflow
Caching
SEO URLs
RSS Feed
Commenting on any content type
Moderation
Page / Content Templates
Drag & Drop Re-ordering of content
Multiple Views of content type
Automatic image scaling and thumbnail generation
Rich ecosystem of free add-on products
Cross-Platform
Inline Editing Support
Cut / Copy / Page Operation support on content
Collaboration and sharing
Versioning, history and reverting content
Full Text Search on documents like Word / PDF
Collections
Automatic Sitemap Generation
Rules engine for Content
Custom Forms
Portlets like Calendar / RSS Feed / Search etc.
Themes
Customization
Connection to external databases
There is a long list of functionalities.
Many other features can be added to Plone by deploying & Installing the Add-on products like Blogs/ Forums etc . You can create your own add-own product and deploy.
