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Why is it important to use short names in Plone?

Short names become apart of the URL for Plone sites. Instead of an auto generated URL, you can c...

Plone CMS Resources

Plone is an Open-Source Content Management System built on Python and Zope.Departments at UCLA cu...

Plone 4 Tips and Tricks: Table of Contents

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How do I identify the stylesheets in Plone?

In Plone, you can list, debug, enable and disable and change the order of all the stylesheets by:...

How to get rid of icons in Plone

Plone’s default style calls for an assortment of eye candy to decorate links, list items, and var...

Importing and exporting a Plone site

Zope has a feature that allows you to export files, folders, and even Plone sites using the Impor...

Installing Plone v3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5

Installing Plone v3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5Instructions to install Plone v3.2 on Mac OS 10.5 Server an...

Remove highlighting of search terms in Plone

If you haven’t noticed already, go to Google and do a quick search for your Plone site. Then cli...

Is there a permission that allows a user edit content that s/he does not own in Plone?

For Plone 2.x, 3.xQuestion:I notice that for a piece of content, both the Owner and the Manager c...

Why can't I add a photo using AT Photo in Plone?

If you’ve used the product ATPhoto or ATPhoto Album in Plone 2.1, but now it is breaking in Plone...

Shibboleth For Plone

Updated as of June 25th, 2010UCLA Shibboleth 2.1+ Guides:Installation guideConfiguration guideFol...

How do I get started with designing new/existing layouts in Plone?

Taken from various posts on the Plone mailing list (http://www.nabble.com/Plone-f6741.html)Stan M...

Backing up and packing Plone's database file (Data.fs)

Backing up the databaseSee “Backup Plone” and “Backup and recover Data.fs in linux” in Plone’s do...

Zope/Plone usage statistics

Since a Zope access log (Z2.log) has the same format as an Apache access log, Apache log analyzer...

Should I use plonecustom.css when changing the layout for my Plone site

As stated in plonecustom.css, if you are going to be making heavy modifications to your layout, y...

Changing number of displayed news/events in Plone portlets

Find out which version of Plone you are running. Versions prior to 2.5 keep their portlet code in...

Search across multiple Plone instances

If you have multiple Plone instances and you would like the search feature to search across the i...

How can I undo changes in Plone?

Plone has a feature that lets you undo changes you make to Plone-managed pages and other items. T...

How do I remove the icons in Plone?

This will allow you to remove the navigation icons that appear in Plone’s navigation portlet. go ...

How do I change the header image in Plone?

Enter the the Zope interface by adding /manage to the end of your URL. Go to the folder ‘/portal_...

Why are my excluded Plone items still showing up in navigation?

Plone comes with a useful way to hide certain items from the navigation menu. On the page’s prope...

Plone and Zope Screencasts

Collection of screencasts demoing Plone functionality and ease of development in Zope 3.

How to add new slots in Plone

This document describes how to add an additional portlet slot to the two that exist already (left...

Restricting Plone portlets to show up only on certain pages

Sometimes you may want certain Plone portlets to only show up on certain pages. This guide will w...

Can Plone display content from another site inside it?

Yes, there is a product that will do exactly this. It’s called windowZ. Just use the quick instal...

How can a rotating banner image be done in Plone?

The first step is to create a Python script that will serve up the image you want. This article a...

How do I make dynamic dropdown/pullup menus in Plone?

There is a Plone Drop Down Menu product (also called qPloneDropDownMenu) that creates navigation ...

How do I enable the advanced mode of the TinyMCE editor for Plone?

The TinyMCE editor is a feature-rich WYSIWYG editor for Plone, similar to Kupu. However, many of ...

Why aren't my font colors / scripts / Flash / Java applets showing up in my Plone site?

By default, Plone employs an HTML-filtering system when it transforms Plone documents into marked...

Importing existing HTML content into Plone

I have an existing site consisting of HTML files, folders and images. Now I’d like to manage that...

How do you enable short names in Plone?

By default Plone 2.1.x generates short names for you based on the title of your document, folder,...

Plone 4 Tips and Tricks

Back to Table of ContentsTiny MCEAdding a color picker to the toolbarPlone 4 comes installed with...