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Plone have some screencasts which are an excellent introduction to Plone and how it works Plone Videos Includes Screencast Editing with Plone "How to use the Plone content management system to edit both images and text in a site. Demonstrates Plone’s built-in image manipulation and rescaling, as well as its rich text editing capabilities." 12 […]

Again from my email clear out, I have found a few more tips, this time suggested by Priyadarshan….. Drag and drop item reordering in Plone 2.5 You can just reorder the order items have in a folder just by dragging and dropping them around. This is of course of great usefulness, since the order in […]

I was cleaning out my mail account today and discovered this rather interesting tip from Richard which he divulged to me decades ago…if you want to boost the standing of an image on your Plone site in Google Images, one way would be to make images viewable in navigation (via preferences -> navigation settings). This […]

Internal Links Plone has been standardising internal links without a trailing slash "/" at the end. It is good to follow that standard, for both SEO reasons and data collection. Links to pages and images should be like this: /plone_basics/adding_internal_links, and NOT like this: /plone_basics/adding_internal_links/ (in the first case, the terminating "/" is not there) […]

Factoid of the day: Owners can add images and files in Plone but by default they can’t edit them once the save button is pressed.

The default Image type in Plone (ATImage from the ATCT Product) is capable of scaling: large : (768, 768) preview : (400, 400) mini : (200, 200) thumb : (128, 128) tile : (64, 64) icon : (32, 32) listing : (16, 16) To access these sizes, append /image_XXX to the URL, where XXX is […]

One of the bees that’s been buzzing around in my bonnet recently is the issue of bylines in plone. To me, any text that appears on a Plone page should be editable via a UI rather than having to edit a template. Ever since 2.1 the byline has been right at the top, so it […]