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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Overview of this book

In the past few years, we have seen some dramatic changes in the way Plone sites are being developed, deployed, and maintained. As a result, developing and deploying sites, changing their default settings, and performing day to day maintenance tasks can be a challenge. This book covers site administration tasks, from setting up a development instance, to optimizing a deployed production site, and more. It demonstrates how-to perform these tasks in a comprehensive way, and walks the user through the necessary steps to achieve results.We have divided the subject of Plone site administration into three categories: development, deployment, and maintenance. We begin by explaining how a Plone site is built, and how to start using it through the web. Next, we add features by installing add-on products, focusing on themes, blogging, and other common enhancements. After the basics of developing and deploying a Plone site are covered, the book covers the basics of maintaining it.Further, throughout the book we preview some new technologies related to Plone site administration, available now as add-ons to the current Plone release. Finally, we will cover a variety of techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Plone 3.3 Site Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Summary


That's it for this chapter. We have just demonstrated several ways to customize Plone's appearance with (hopefully) simple examples to convey the pros and cons of each method.

You have learned:

  • How to browse for themes on plone.org and install them with Buildout

  • How to use Omelette and Python to examine theme package contents

  • About theme package contents

  • How to create a theme package, and perform a simple customization

  • How to find your way around the ZMI

  • How to customize themes through the Web

See you in Chapter 4, where we will discuss site administration, including user and group management with LDAP.