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Plone 3.0.5 came out on January 7, 2008. Full release announcement

Our vsCore, vsPloneLibrary and vsPloneSongs, have been listed on http://www.ohloh.net. vsCore Home: http://www.vasudevaservice.com/products/vscore/ Download: http://www.vasudevaservice.com/products/vscore/download Project: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6714 Commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6714/commits Individual commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6714/contributors vsPloneLibrary Home: http://www.vasudevaservice.com/products/vsplonelibrary Download: Download page is missing Project: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6714 Commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6717/commits Individual commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6717/contributors vsPloneSongs Home: This project doesn’t have a home page. Download: Download page is missing Project: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6718 Commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6718/commits […]

Who says a technical site can’t have pictures? (Photo:Kedar Misani ) Sdotnews by default displays the description of a news item. However, sometimes you will want to link to another page direct from the front sdotnews page, so it might be better to display the body text instead of the description, and in the body […]

Plone, like any content management system, has slower page load speeds than static pages. Ensuring a fast enough page load speed so users won’t get turned off is therefore a big concern of Plone site maintainers. Here are some tips: 1. Avoid missing page components If a part of a page (most commonly an image) […]

We will now look at how these schemas are called by the edit templates, and point out slots and hooks which Archetypes have left for customization. Let us return to our Image type: selecting this type in portal_types and looking at properties will show that atct_edit is the default editing form, as it is for […]

When you visit the plone site (http://plone.org) you see that the side navigation bar (viewable at any page besides homepage) contains only the root folders, the item and its immediate ancestors. A very nice behaviour, and one I spent a while fiddling with navigation properties trying to make happen. But actually the solution is much […]

All the default types in Plone – file, image, folder – are part of the ATContentTypes product, and are examples of archetypes. Archetypes were integrated into Plone 2.1, and allow you to create content types easily by providing a range of readymade tools so you can generate edit forms without using any HTML. An example […]

I always wondered why the ‘Display’ tab containing the ‘select content item as default view’ was sometimes clickable and sometimes not. Well the answer is simple (it always is after you’ve found it): if you have an item in your folder called index_html, Plone will automatically recognise that as the default view item, and you […]

As explained in an recent article titled ‘Edit ZPT content through Plone ‘ on plone.org, we can insert the content of a document called my-document, say, by inserting the following into your template: <tal:block tal:condition="exists:here/footer-content/my_document" tal:replace="structure here/footer-content/my_document/getText"> Document content here</tal:block> Perhaps one of these days Plone can use this method so that we can edit […]

If, like me, you have been trying to resolve permission problems by checking and unchecking boxes in the ZMI Security tab in a trial-and-error fashion, there is in fact an easier way (I never doubted Plone for an instant 🙂 ) Before going to the Security tab, you should first find the Actions tab for […]