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A Look at Using Wagtail Snippets with Django
Wagtail 4.0 came out on Aug. 31 and with it came support for Django 4.1, which we just so happen to be using for our first Wagtail project — a new application that will be integrated within one of the client’s existing websites.
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Django Commands: makemigrations or migrate?
When running Django migrations, which command should you run: 'makemigrations' or 'migrate'? Here is a simple how-to manual...
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How to Set Up a Plone Site with pip install
Plonistas have been dreaming of pip install plone for getting a new Plone project up and running for more than a decade. Learn how to get the alpha version of Plone 6 running using the pip install method.
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Using Plone’s .zexp Export/Import for Debugging
It’s best practice to debug or develop against the same content that is in production, but what should you do if there’s a limited amount of space to work with and the full production data can’t be pulled down? You can use Zope’s export/import.
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How Chrissy Met Plone
After working with websites professionally, I felt confident that I could do the job. A few days later I started at Six Feet Up, which threw me into the deep end of Plone. I was replacing Six Feet Up's Template Developer, and I was able to work with him for only two days before he left...
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Plone 4 Theming Options
The next version of Plone is now in the Release Candidate stage and will be officially available in the coming months. I have been working with Plone 4 through the beta stages, but it wasn't until recently that I got to work with the new version as if I were implementing a design for a client...
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Book Review: Plone 3 Theming
"Plone 3 Theming" was published in July 2009 by Veda Williams, a Plone developer for Groundwire. This book is full of all the information a developer would need to create a theme and apply it to a Plone site. Veda Williams does a great job of covering every area related to theming and mentioning additional products that developers may not already be aware of. This includes Chapter 2, which contains information helpful to all web developers, not just those using Plone. Throughout the book, Veda outlines best practices for theming, and I was happy to see that we at Six Feet Up use nearly all the same methods...
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A Look Back at my Plone Training Experience
I had the privilege of leading a two-day training at Plone Symposium East 2010. I taught a group of five people how to customize the front-end design of a Plone site from start to finish...
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PSE2010 - Page Templates
For the first break-out session of the day, I attended Gregory Angle's talk on Page Templates. Greg works for PSU in the research department. He showed us a few specific pages on their website and talked about the customized templates he created to achieve the desired functionality. Along with each of the main examples, he also showed us the code used to make it work...
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Utilize Available JavaScript in Plone without Knowing JavaScript
There are a few automagical scripts in Plone of which many developers may not be aware. These helpful scripts are used throughout the default Plone skin, and are available for you to use in your templates as well. The nice part is that you don't need to know JavaScript to be able to use them, you just have to know how to structure your code properly for the existing JS to find it...
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