Minifying JavaScript and CSS with buildout

An easy way to increase the performance of a web-page is to minify the used CSS and JavaScript resources. There are ready available tools that strip the comments and whitespaces from JavaScript and CSS-files.

Plone itself ships with a big amount of uncompressed JavaScript and CSS which are compiled in the resource registry. The usual minifying recipes . . . → Read More: Minifying JavaScript and CSS with buildout

Customize Plone translations with iw.recipe.cmd

Sometimes the good translations of Plone do not fit your usecase or screen space. Overriding the translations in a pre-buildout area was easy. All you needed to do is to put a directory i18n in your instance home containing a file custom-plone-en.po. The structure of the filename is important: custom-DOMAIN-LANGUAGECODE.po

Nowadays all people use buildouts and adding . . . → Read More: Customize Plone translations with iw.recipe.cmd