The new kid on the block for creating flexible layouts in Plone is plone.app.mosaic. It is available for Plone 5 as an addon and will be included in a future version of core Plone.
With the product site integrators can prepare layouts for editors to be filled with …
Now Zope has documented support of WSGI deployment, Plone can have it too. To make it happen we can use a minimal buildout with some minor adjustments:
[buildout] parts = instance extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/5-latest/versions.cfg [instance] recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance http-address = eggs = Plone Pillow [wsgiconf] recipe …
Buildout always fetches the latest version of setuptools for bootstraping. No matter what is defined in versions.cfg. It is possible to set the version of zc.buildout when bootstraping but not the one of setuptools.
This behavior is hardcoded in bootstrap.py.
77 ez = {}
78 exec(urlopen('https://bootstrap …A major version of a piece of software always means to leave behind some burdon. Plone ships with two testing framworks since Plone 4. Now it is time to get rid of one of them: PloneTestCase. With the newer plone.app.testing framework it is possible to specify layers to …
Sometimes someone forgets his admin password. This is easy to reset with the adduser command of Zope. But what if someone removes the top level ZODB user manager? Use this commands to restore it in debug mode:
Start instance in debug mode:
$ bin/instance debug
Add a new ZODB user …
For a Plone site I use TextIndexNG3 for the fulltext index with the ranking support (txng.ranking.cosine) turned on. Searching content worked fine on the development box but when transferred to the live box, some mysterious things happened. Some of the documents were not found and strangely with the …
I was tired of reading and answering all the p4a related questions on the Plone user mailing list and wrote a book about it ;-).
The book is now available:
In the book you …
Once you get used to the power of grok in Plone via five.grok you never want to miss it and use it for all and everything. Unfortunately it is currently not possible to use grok views as default views via CMFDynamicViewFTI.
To nevertheless use them you have to do …
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 …
Recently I tried to migrate the website of the university I work for to Plone 4. The first thing I did was to checkout the development buildout from Plone http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/buildouts/plone-coredev/branches/4.0. The alpha2 release is quite near, but I thought I …