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Read More Chrissy Wainwright | March 22, 2017 How To Plone Best Practices for Customizing Your Live Plone Site Learn when TTW customizations should be avoided, how to make customizations properly, and how to put a customization process in place. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | March 17, 2015 Mobile Theme How To Plone How We Made our Site Responsive Mobile and responsive development are key in today's web design practice, but how do you make an existing production site fully responsive? Here's how we did it. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | February 19, 2015 Plone 5 How To Plone Displaying EasySlideshow on your Homepage with Diazo Now that you've learned how to use EasySlideshow, this article will give instruction on how to display it within your site's pages. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | February 11, 2015 How To Plone How To Use EasySlideshow This article provides step by step instruction for using Easyslideshow within Plone post install and activation. 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Python Django Plone Best Practices What is Faceted Search or Faceted Navigation? Faceted search provides site visitors with a quick and intuitive way to narrow down their search results in real time... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | July 24, 2019
Best Practices Python Django Plone How to write an RFP for your Web Portal project Whether your web portal project is about a corporate intranet, an online collaboration platform for researchers or a app designed to help members manage their data, you will most likely need to write an RFP to identify possible suitable vendors... Read More Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker | May 17, 2019
Plone Open Source Django Best Practices What to look for in your site’s search Tips if you are looking for Google-like search features... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | March 12, 2019
Zope ZODB Plone How To POSKeyError Debugging and Fixing Cookbook Hunting and killing bad objects in the ZODB for fun and profit. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | January 18, 2019
Dexterity Migration Transmogrifier Plone Transmogrify Your Content Migration How to successfully and effectively export content out of your CMS using a powerful migration tool called Transmogrifier... Read More Chrissy Wainwright | August 28, 2017
Development Python How To Django Tips Plone Kick Start your Django/Plone Buildout with PyCharm PyCharm has great features, such as a Debugger, code completion, syntax highlighting and code formatting for Buildout configuration files. Here are several tips to help you get going... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | August 5, 2017
upgrade How To Plone 5 Tips for a Successful Plone 5 Upgrade Everything you need to know to avoid falling into Plone 5 migration traps... Read More Chrissy Wainwright | March 22, 2017
How To Plone Best Practices for Customizing Your Live Plone Site Learn when TTW customizations should be avoided, how to make customizations properly, and how to put a customization process in place. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | March 17, 2015
Mobile Theme How To Plone How We Made our Site Responsive Mobile and responsive development are key in today's web design practice, but how do you make an existing production site fully responsive? Here's how we did it. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | February 19, 2015
Plone 5 How To Plone Displaying EasySlideshow on your Homepage with Diazo Now that you've learned how to use EasySlideshow, this article will give instruction on how to display it within your site's pages. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | February 11, 2015
How To Plone How To Use EasySlideshow This article provides step by step instruction for using Easyslideshow within Plone post install and activation. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | February 4, 2015
How To Plone Allow users to create content using PloneFormGen In the following article you'll find out how to create site content via PloneFormGen using a Custom Script Adapter or by using an add-on adapter called "PloneFormGen Save Data to Content" (uwosh.pfg.d2c). Read More Christine Shaw | January 28, 2015
Diazo How To Plone Cool Factor Turn static theme into a Diazo theme through the web This article provides a step by step overview for creating a Diazo theme from a static theme through the web. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | December 17, 2014
Zope How To Plone Cool Factor Stupid ZMI Tricks This article offers a simple digest of information and tricks for using the Zope Management Interface in Plone. Read More Rob McBroom | December 10, 2014
Diazo How To Plone How to use XSLT in Diazo This article gives a brief overview of XSLT, how and when to use it in your Diazo theming, and a few examples of it in action. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | December 4, 2014
Systems Administration ZFS How To FreeBSD Plone Doing code releases with ZFS Using ZFS for snapshots is easier than collective.recipe.backup for backing up Plone sites. I'll show you how it allows you to instantly rollback to a previous version if something goes wrong. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | November 24, 2014
How To Plone Handling PloneFormGen Submissions : The Email Adapter By default, PloneFormGen displays a generic "Thank You" page that emails the site-wide email address. With a few clicks, you can easily customize what happens after a form is submitted. Read More Christine Shaw | November 20, 2014
Diazo How To Plone How to use Variables in Diazo Learn how to apply variables with TAL expressions in your Diazo theme. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | November 13, 2014
Conference How To Plone Multisite Management using Lineage (PC14 Recap) Lineage is a free and open source Plone product that makes it easy to manage subsites. It works by enabling regular subfolders of a Plone site to appear as autonomous Plone sites to the everyday user. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | November 5, 2014
How To Plone Diazo Syntax Training This article includes a video and reviews Diazo Syntax for rules, conditions, selectors, inserting HTML, and other attributes. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | November 4, 2014
Lineage Plone 5 Plone Lineage 2.0 for multisite is Plone 5 & Dexterity compatible We've seen a lot of activity around Lineage this year and wanted to make sure that before PloneConf we had a fresh new version of Lineage for Plone 4.x and Plone 5. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | October 29, 2014
Diazo How To Plone How to use Diazo for Plone Theming This is an introduction to how to use Diazo for Plone theming. Diazo allows you to map dynamic content from a CMS to a static theme. Diazo is supported in Plone 4.1 and beyond with plone.app.theming. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | October 28, 2014
Release Plone 1.9.0 release improvement to collective.recipe.plonesite The 1.9.0 release of collective.recipe.plonesite is now available on PyPi. This release brings several new features and some improvements to the documentation. Read More Clayton Parker | October 14, 2014
How To Plone Learning Plone as a SysAdmin I recently started learning to develop for the Python-based CMS, Plone. This is my perspective on learning to be a Plone developer with years of experience as a SysAdmin and Python developer. Read More Rob McBroom | October 14, 2014
How To Plone Forms in Plone - PloneFormGen vs. Formstack When displaying forms in a Plone site, you can choose a hosted service like Formstack, or go with a Plone add-on like PloneFormGen. Let's take a look at how each of these options work from the perspective of a marketer or content creator. Read More October 7, 2014
WebUnity Multisite Plone Performance Is a Web Consolidation Strategy Right For You? Web consolidation projects provide an incredible opportunity for cutting expenses, improving performance, and simplifying content management across websites. Here are 7 key factors to consider if consolidation is right for your organization. Read More Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker | September 30, 2014
Conference Planet Plone Plone Being an "active sponsor": The Plone Conf survey app Six Feet Up is excited not only be attending and sponsoring Plone Conf 2014, but we are also donating our Survey App to the conference. We believe in actively helping grow our communities. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | September 18, 2014
Plone "Mastering Plone" Documentation - An Online Resource This online training resource walks you through the process of creating a Plone site and setting up custom content. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | August 21, 2014
jQuery How To Planet Plone Javascript Plone Intro to jQuery within Plone jQuery is a JavaScript library that allows you to do many of the same things as regular JavaScript, but in an easier way that results in less code. Recently, the jQuery library was split out of Plone into a separate package (plone.app.jquery) in order to make updating jQuery itself easier. Read More Chrissy Wainwright | July 23, 2014
Planet Plone Plone Plone, Drupal Coexistence in Higher Ed (PSM14 Recap) 70% of Higher Ed institutions running Plone also use Drupal. While some universities go down the path of consolidating onto one platform, there is another simpler and cheaper option: integrating the two CMSs. Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | July 15, 2014
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