Plone
Open source content management system built on Python, with a React-based Volto frontend and a Classic UI frontend.
Plone is an open source content management system built on Python and the Zope application server. It offers two frontends: Volto, a single-page application, and Classic UI, whose pages are server-side templates written in the ZPT language. It also serves content over a REST API. Content is stored in the Zope Object Database, which writes to files by default and can use PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle as a backend. A single installation can run many Plone sites. The Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, maintains the project.
Worth knowing
Volto runs its frontend in a separate Node process beside the Python backend. The interface guide states that there is no migration path from Volto to Classic UI.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Plone Foundation4
- Maintained by
- Foundation
- Headquarters
- United States4
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on11
- Rendering
- In the browser, On a server10
- Install with
- cookieplone, pip, buildout7
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links, Categories, Content API, License model
plone.org/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/plone/Products.CMFPlone - 2026-10-26: links
6.docs.plone.org/ - 2026-10-26: Maintainer, Headquarters
plone.org/foundation/about - 2026-10-26: Built on
6.docs.plone.org/admin-guide/configure-zope.html - 2026-10-26: Runtime, Minimum runtime
6.docs.plone.org/admin-guide/install-pip.html - 2026-10-26: Runtime, Install with
6.docs.plone.org/install/create-project-cookieplone.html - 2026-10-26: Templating
6.docs.plone.org/classic-ui/templates.html - 2026-10-26: Multilingual
plone.org/why-plone/features - 2026-10-26: Admin interface, Rendering
6.docs.plone.org/conceptual-guides/choose-user-interface.html - 2026-10-26: Runs as
6.docs.plone.org/admin-guide/run-plone.html - 2026-10-26: Databases
6.docs.plone.org/backend/zodb.html - 2026-10-26: License, Current major version, Last release
pypi.org/pypi/Plone/json - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/plone/Products.CMFPlone/contributors