Plone

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...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | July 24, 2019

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...

Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker | May 17, 2019

What to look for in your site’s search

Tips if you are looking for Google-like search features...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | March 12, 2019

POSKeyError Debugging and Fixing Cookbook

Hunting and killing bad objects in the ZODB for fun and profit.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | January 18, 2019

Transmogrify Your Content Migration

How to successfully and effectively export content out of your CMS using a powerful migration tool called Transmogrifier...

Chrissy Wainwright | August 28, 2017

Use PyCharm to power your Django and Plone projects

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...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | August 5, 2017

5 Tips for a Successful Plone 5 Upgrade

Everything you need to know to avoid falling into Plone 5 migration traps...

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | March 17, 2015

Responsive web design image on desktop, tablet and mobile device

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | February 19, 2015

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.

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.

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).

Christine Shaw | January 28, 2015

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | December 17, 2014

Stupid ZMI Tricks

This article offers a simple digest of information and tricks for using the Zope Management Interface in Plone.

Rob McBroom | December 10, 2014

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | December 4, 2014

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.

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.

Christine Shaw | November 20, 2014

How to use Variables in Diazo

Learn how to apply variables with TAL expressions in your Diazo theme.

Chrissy Wainwright | November 13, 2014

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.

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | November 4, 2014

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.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | October 29, 2014

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | October 28, 2014

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.

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.

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.

October 7, 2014

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.

Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker | September 30, 2014

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.

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | August 21, 2014

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.

Chrissy Wainwright | July 23, 2014

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.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker | July 15, 2014

Sections