When comparing Plone vs Mezzanine, the Slant community recommends Mezzanine for most people. In the question“What are the best Python based CMSs?” Mezzanine is ranked 3rd while Plone is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Mezzanine is:
Mezzanine has a built-in search engine and API, integration with services like Disqus, Gravatar, Google Analytics, Twitter, bit.ly, Akismet, a blog and a good selection of templates available out of the box.
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Pros
Pro Open source
Not only does this provides complete transparency to the user, it also enables a large base of developers to work simultaneously on solving any arising the issues and improving the platform.
Pro Remarkable level of security
Plone has been around for almost two decates and to date less than 50 vulnerabilities were discovered in the platform. That's at least ten times less than any of the popular alternatives, including Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. In fact, government agencies, such as NASA and FBI use Plone for its high level of security.
Pro Can run on virtually anything
Plone runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebooks, RaspberryPi, servers, and cloud services.
Pro Multilingual UI and documentation
Plone platform along with all documentation is available in more than 40 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Pro Ready to use out of the box
Mezzanine has a built-in search engine and API, integration with services like Disqus, Gravatar, Google Analytics, Twitter, bit.ly, Akismet, a blog and a good selection of templates available out of the box.
Pro Frontend editing
Editing of blog posts or themes and widgets can be done on the frontend as long as the user is logged in with an Admin account. This make Mezzanine very easy to use and manage even for people who may not be experienced at all in programming.
Pro Blog and shopping module mezzanine cartridge integration
Pro Popular and has an active community
Mezzanine is a very well-maintained CMS. It is very popular and has a nice and helpful community around it. This means that there's help available for any problem that you may face with it.
Cons
Con No support for scheduled publishing
With Mezzanine you cannot schedule future blog posts or changes to be posted at a particular time.