Plone CMS Resources

Plone is a content management system built on Python and Zope. OID, and SSC use it for their sites. Psychology will be rolling out their site soon. The School of Engineering is looking at it.

Does Plone do what I’m looking for? I’m evaluating a system to do X, Y and Z, can Plone do that? Is Plone the right tool for the job? http://plone.org/documentation/faq/is-plone-for-me

• http://www.plone.org/
• PHP with Plone
• UCLA Plone Users Group
• The Definitive Guide to Plone – The complete book online. Great resource for Plone. Essentially the “Plone Bible”. Mike Takahashi August 19, 2005
• The Book of Zope – a good book to help get you familiar with Zope. It’s a little out dated (ignore the DTML references). However, it really goes into depth on the inner workings of Zope (acquisition, ZCatalog, roles, permissions, etc.) and is something everyone should learn if you plan to customize and develop your Plone site.
• Online, the The Zope Book
  is a nice free resource. A little outdated, but the same principles still apply. Ignore the DTML sections as any customizations you do with Zope/Plone should be with TAL/Python. This section is a must for learning TAL (quoted with permission from Mike Takashi email Feb. 6, 2007)
• http://del.icio.us/tag/plone
• UCLA’s Plone Mailing List
  Plone Support and Mailing Lists
• For those of you still trying to figure out where everything is in Plone and how to change its look – Tutorial
• Plone Podcasts
  • Rob Miller from Burning Man on Plone
  • Alan Runyan on Plone and Enfold Systems
  • Plone at Disney – Interview with Scott Kelley
    “Users managing content with Vignette was becoming expensive from a licensing and training cost point. Installing Enfold Server to run Plone on Windows was the stategy Disney’s Enterprise Operations team took to offloading content creation and security management to individual business units. Then re-integrating the content back into their intranet.”
  • Plone Impressions – A Video Podcast About Plone