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How do I identify the stylesheets in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

In Plone, you can list, debug, enable and disable and change the order of all the stylesheets by: go into ZMI (Zope Management Interface) go to Root Folder of your site click on portal_css (CSS Registry). There you’ll see a long list of all the CSS’s affecting...

Plone
CSS
stylesheets

How do I remove the icons in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

This will allow you to remove the navigation icons that appear in Plone’s navigation portlet. go into ZMI (Zope Management Interface) go to Root Folder of your site click on portal_css (CSS Registry). There you’ll see a long list of all the CSSes affecting you...

Plone
CSS
stylesheets

Plone CMS Resources

Programming and Web Development Plone

Plone is an Open-Source Content Management System built on Python and Zope.Departments at UCLA currently using Plone Office of Instructional Development Social Sciences Computing Psychology IT Department The School of Engineering UCLA Chancellor UCLA Executive...

CMS
Plone
Zope

Why is it important to use short names in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Short names become apart of the URL for Plone sites. Instead of an auto generated URL, you can create an easy to remember URL. For example, say you created a “General Information” page, your URL can show up like this: generalinfo or general-info, as opposed ...

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names
short
technology in teaching

How do you enable short names in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

By default Plone 2.1.x generates short names for you based on the title of your document, folder, etc in the same manner https://kb.ucla.edu does.For example, if you create a document with a title called “Plone is Great” the short name becomes “plone-is-great”...

Plone
names
short
technology in teaching

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

Programming and Web Development Plone

By default, Plone employs an HTML-filtering system when it transforms Plone documents into marked-up web pages. Certain tags, such as <font> and other deprecated tags in HTML, are removed so that the generated page is closer to XHTML, which does not allo...

Plone
applet
color
filtering
flash
font
HTML
Java
script

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

Programming and Web Development Plone

The TinyMCE editor is a feature-rich WYSIWYG editor for Plone, similar to Kupu. However, many of TinyMCE’s best features are hidden away in so-called “advanced mode”. Installing TinyMCE is straightforward – install it like you would any other Plone product.To ...

editor
Plone
advanced
TinyMCE

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

Programming and Web Development Plone

There is a Plone Drop Down Menu product (also called qPloneDropDownMenu) that creates navigation tabs for you that have a drop-down menu behavior. The product page above has complete instructions on using it.If you want the menus to “pull up” rather than “drop...

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dropdown
dynamic
menus
pullup

How can a rotating banner image be done in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

The first step is to create a Python script that will serve up the image you want. This article assumes that you want a random image from a folder to be chosen. Python-savvy readers can use more advanced techniques, such as making a list of images to load in t...

images
Plone
random
rotate

Can Plone display content from another site inside it?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Yes, there is a product that will do exactly this. It’s called windowZ. Just use the quick installer to set it up, and you can add Window objects through the Plone interface. Window objects don’t have their own content, but rather a URL that points to the cont...

Plone
content
external
window

Restricting Plone portlets to show up only on certain pages

Programming and Web Development Plone

Sometimes you may want certain Plone portlets to only show up on certain pages. This guide will walk you through doing exactly that.If the portlets already appear on your site, you’ll need to remove the portlet calls from the site properties page. In the Zope ...

Plone
pages
portlets
restrict

How to add new slots in Plone

Programming and Web Development Plone

This document describes how to add an additional portlet slot to the two that exist already (left and right).http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/add-slots

Plone

Plone and Zope Screencasts

Programming and Web Development Plone

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

Plone
demo
how to
Python
screencast
Zope

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

Programming and Web Development Plone

Plone comes with a useful way to hide certain items from the navigation menu. On the page’s properties tab, you can select “exclude from navigation” and the item won’t show up anymore in the navigation bar or site map.… at least, that’s what you would think. Y...

Plone
exclude
navigation

How do I change the header image in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Enter the the Zope interface by adding /manage to the end of your URL. Go to the folder ‘/portal_skins’ and the subfolder ‘/plone_images’. Click on ‘logo.jpg’ Click on Customize and you will be directed to the /custom folder where you can upload your logo imag...

Plone

How can I undo changes in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Plone has a feature that lets you undo changes you make to Plone-managed pages and other items. To access it, log in, and in your personal toolbar (usually at the bottom of the screen) there will be an “undo” link. If your site’s templated has been customized ...

Plone
undo
Zope

How to get rid of icons in Plone

Programming and Web Development Plone

Plone’s default style calls for an assortment of eye candy to decorate links, list items, and various other elements. Sometimes users don’t want to see these icons. Plone makes it easy to disable any of these individual elements, but sometimes tracking down al...

Plone
icons
remove

How do I change the nav portlet?

Applications/Software

What I want to do: Change the navigation portlet so that only the current top folder and its contents appear.The fix:Go to the ZMI in Plone.Go to portal_properties → navtree_propertiesUncheck “includeTop” Put the “topLevel” equal to 1.Source: Plone Users maili...

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