If, like me, you have been trying to resolve permission problems by checking and unchecking boxes in the ZMI Security tab in a trial-and-error fashion, there is in fact an easier way (I never doubted Plone for an instant 🙂 ) Before going to the Security tab, you should first find the Actions tab for […]

Plone have some screencasts which are an excellent introduction to Plone and how it works Plone Videos Includes Screencast Editing with Plone "How to use the Plone content management system to edit both images and text in a site. Demonstrates Plone’s built-in image manipulation and rescaling, as well as its rich text editing capabilities." 12 […]

Users abandon sites that take longer than 4 seconds to load Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests. The research by Akamai revealed users’ dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up. It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would […]

This promises to be a very useful tool for webmasters of large sites or sites with many users. Sure, one could always check broken links using server states, but by having a link checking mechanism in the UI you can let each user in a multi-user site be responsible for keeping their own section 404-free. […]

LinguaPlone is the standard multilingual translation solution for Plone, and is used to generate translations of websites like Oxfam . Upon first hearing of LinguaPlone, I was expecting a scenario where the whole page – page body, tabs, portlets, the lot – would obediently translate given the necessary words and a couple of clicks of […]