Get started#
This part of the documentation helps you find the best way to get started with Plone, depending on what you want to do.
Try a Plone demo#
Choose a version to demo.
- https://volto.demo.plone.org/
Plone 6 with Volto frontend
- https://demo.plone.org/
Plone 6 with Volto frontend and some add-ons, including Volto Light Theme, with content that demonstrates all the content types of Plone and blocks in Volto
- https://classic.demo.plone.org/
Plone 6 with Classic UI frontend
Install Plone#
First, choose a Plone user interface, or frontend. You can read Choose a user interface to help inform your choice between Volto and Classic UI.
If you choose Classic UI, then you can read Compare Buildout and pip to help inform your choice between Buildout and pip for an installation method.
Then choose one of the following installation methods. If you are following a Plone training, it should specify which option to choose.
- Install Plone with Cookieplone
This is the recommended way to install Plone 6 for a new project with the Volto frontend. Cookieplone requires Python version 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, or 3.13.
- Install Plone with Buildout
This is one way to install Plone with the Classic UI frontend. Using Buildout will be the most familiar way for admins who have experience with Plone 3, 4, or 5.
- Install Plone with pip
This is one way to install Plone with the Classic UI frontend. It provides a basic installation without many additional tools to help with development.
- Install Plone with cookiecutter-plone-starter (deprecated)
Installing Plone 6.0 with
cookiecutter-plone-starterwas the recommended way to install for a new project with the Volto frontend, but it is now deprecated in Plone 6.1.- Install Plone as a contributor
This option is for developers who want to contribute to Plone and its packages.
Learn more about Plone#
The Conceptual guides explain concepts to help you understand Plone.
The community has created a set of Plone trainings which are hosted separately from the documentation. Plone trainings take place at every annual Plone Conference.
Contribute to Plone#
See the Contributor Guide to learn how to participate in the Plone community and contribute to our open source software.