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Community
Global
False
False
Big community of people writing documentation*
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High security out of the box
Yes, difficult to attack by design, ZODB
False
False
WP developers/hosters spend a lot of time fighting security vulnerabilities and their server IP being blacklisted (since it's typical for a WP site to be on the same server as 100 other WP sites) - a LOT! And it scares the hell out of the marketing/management people at these events to hear so much conversation about 'How do you guys fight this?' from one dev to the other.*
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Education-focused “products” (modules, add-ons, extensions) (FSD, Timeslot)
False
False
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Use as Intranets
Yes, very customizeable
False
False
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Improving your business processes
Collaboration, sharing, etc.
False
False
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Plug-in: Forms builder
PloneFormGen
False
False
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Free and open source
Yes
True
True
Yes
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In-place editing
Yes
False
False
No
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Accessibility
Yes, high, priority, OOTB
False
False
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Responsive / mobile-friendly
Yes, responsive theme is available, needs customizing
False
False
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Scalability (clustering, ZEO servers & clients, backend stores - ZODB, SQL)
False
False
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12
File structure, Folder based navigation, architecture
False
False
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13
Accessible URLs
False
False
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14
Docs of various types integration
False
False
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15
User groups (Global, active)
False
False
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False
False
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Modern technology framework
False
False
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18
Upgrade path
False
False
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19
Easy to theme
Plonethemes or Diazo, xml, html
False
False
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Extendable
False
False
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21
Workflow
Detailed, customizeable
False
False
WP still has limited workflow capabilities *
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Multilingual and global community
False
False
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Handles lots of content
False
False
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24
Publication workflows OOTB
False
False
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25
Built in search
False
False
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Fine grained permissions, individuals & groups
Yes, easy to use, manage
False
False
No built-in global dashboard of security settings, where you click on/off checkboxes to give fine-grained permissions. they're usually very general permissions, as in 'Admin' who gets to do everything, 'Viewer', and 'Editor' - some user in between who can maybe edit a post, but not remove them, etc. *
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Auth integration
False
False
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Collections / reports / queries & collection portlets
False
False
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"Robustness" - Good use case
Enterprise Level (best)
blog, small web, microsite
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Stable
Stable: the deployment stack is quite independent from the OS environment; the system is robust and solid and its behavior is always predictable; migrations to next release is easy *
False
False
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Installable product modules
False
False
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32
Zeo-enterprise scale OOTB
False
False
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33
Conferences for edu
False
False
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34
Multi-OS
False
False
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Open hosted version
False
False
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Easily moved between hosts
False
False
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Portability of site, of dev environments, cloning stack
False
False
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Built in web services (XML-RPC)
False
False
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39
Easily import/migrate content via FTP/WebDAV, FunnelWeb, other tools
False
False
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40
Easily edit content in desktop apps (OpenOffice, MS Office, iWork) via External Editor
False
False
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Easily build-in ‘hooks’ based on workflow and/or content changes
False
False
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42
Email notifications, move content to other location, etc.
False
False
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43
Plone Desktop ( WIndows-Only) capability to drag-drop/edit content from Win Explorer
False
False
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Main IRC channel
server: freenode.net, channel: Plone
False
False
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45
Based on language
Python
PHP, Based on a popular programming language*
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Deployment
False
False
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47
Access Control
False
False
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Buildout / configuration management
bin/buildout
False
False
No other system I know of has something quite like it. If you are talking to Wordpress people then see how they deal with having a development, staging, and production environments and how they promote changes in both content and functionality/theme/config from one to another. Whilst the majority of Wordpress people won't care about issues like that for their little blog, it is a very big issue to bring up for those that decide they want to try and use Wordpress as a full blown CMS.*
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Plug-in: Faculty Staff Directory
Yes
False
False
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Plug-in: Content Well Portlets
Yes
False
False
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Plug-in: Responsive Theme
Yes
False
False
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ZMI-type interface
Yes
False
False
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53
SEO optimized
Yes, OOTB
False
False
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54
Caching Tools
PloneAppCaching, highly customizeable, plug-in
False
False
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Conferences (General)
Pros: several annually, around the world; Cons: heavily centered around core developers, not other users
False
False
WP conferences have a lot more focus on the end user, on marketing/commercial sites, and on SEO topics than Plone events.*
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Add-ons, Plug-ins, in general
Download from Plone.org, stop Plone, run buildout, start
False
False
Users tend to just keep adding more and more plugins to try things out and never remove them, slowing down their site (with the mere existence of those plugins in place.) This is true with Plone too, but not to the same extent, since with WP, installing a new plugin is a simple point-and-click - no restart of any services, usually. Some add-ons don't register specific permissions to be managed from some general security settings dashboard *
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Localhost Deployment
All-in-One package, you can install it on your machine, develop and, finally transfer on the server without problems *
False
False
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Cleanliness of HTML in WYSIWYG
Clean
False
False
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WYSIWYG Options
TinyMCE
False
False
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Multi Sites
Multisite setup easy with one instance of Plone*
False
False
No multisite setup
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Content Type Development
Dexterity
False
False
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Documentation
Plone.org, difficult to understand*
False
False
Big community of people writing documentation*
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e-commerce products
low availability*
False
False
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Social Media Integration
No plugins
False
False
Many social media plugings*
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Import Migration
False
False
There some 3rd party import filters to import from other blog tools available: blogspot.com, Movable Type etc (TBAL by acsr from ct' magazine hotline infos)
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Export Migration
False
False
Wordpress will produce a WXR file (Wordpress eXtended Rss) that can be converted to e.g. blogspot.com specific files via http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ (source via acsr: http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/index.php?id=4401118208174494260)
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