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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: 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...
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 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 CMS Resources
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...
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 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 ...
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, 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”...
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-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...
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 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 ...
How do I make dynamic dropdown/pullup menus in 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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 ...
How to add new slots in 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 and Zope Screencasts
Collection of screencasts demoing Plone functionality and ease of development in Zope 3.
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 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...
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_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...
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. 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 ...
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 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...
How do I change the nav portlet?
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...