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We've seen a lot of activity around Lineage this year and wanted to make sure that before PloneConf we had a fresh new version of Lineage for Plone 4.x and Plone 5.
This is an introduction to how to use Diazo for Plone theming. Diazo allows you to map dynamic content from a CMS to a static theme. Diazo is supported in Plone 4.1 and beyond with plone.app.theming.
Six Feet Up inaugurates new PAQ (problems and questions) features on blog. Find out what issues other users are facing and how they fixed, the processes we use to fix them, and what you can expect moving forward.
SaltStack (Salt) is currently one of the fastest growing configuration management systems. It's written in Python and uses ZeroMQ to communicate nearly instantaneously with all of the servers in your infrastructure that it calls minions. Here is how we use Salt and why.
Six Feet Up is frequently asked about including human-powered Quality Assurance (QA) as a part of our testing process. Find out when automated tests or humans are best at catching issues.
The 1.9.0 release of collective.recipe.plonesite is now available on PyPi. This release brings several new features and some improvements to the documentation.
I recently started learning to develop for the Python-based CMS, Plone. This is my perspective on learning to be a Plone developer with years of experience as a SysAdmin and Python developer.
Wow, we got a lot of awesomeness done during this ShipIt Day! It was tons of fun and some of us worked tirelessly until 6 am. Here's a recap of the projects that we took on
We’ve taken the challenge of finding well-trained Python developers into our own hands. Clayton and I will be teaching 5-day immersive trainings on Python and Django at Eleven Fifty in Carmel, Indiana.
When displaying forms in a Plone site, you can choose a hosted service like Formstack, or go with a Plone add-on like PloneFormGen. Let's take a look at how each of these options work from the perspective of a marketer or content creator.
Web consolidation projects provide an incredible opportunity for cutting expenses, improving performance, and simplifying content management across websites. Here are 7 key factors to consider if consolidation is right for your organization.
Six Feet Up is excited not only be attending and sponsoring Plone Conf 2014, but we are also donating our Survey App to the conference. We believe in actively helping grow our communities.
jQuery is a JavaScript library that allows you to do many of the same things as regular JavaScript, but in an easier way that results in less code. Recently, the jQuery library was split out of Plone into a separate package (plone.app.jquery) in order to make updating jQuery itself easier.
70% of Higher Ed institutions running Plone also use Drupal. While some universities go down the path of consolidating onto one platform, there is another simpler and cheaper option: integrating the two CMSs.
Discover how the Penn State College of Liberal Arts moved over 120 separate websites running on their own Plone installation into a single system utilizing Lineage in less than 90 days.
A "Cheese Sprint" followed the annual Plone Symposium Midwest hosted at the University of Oshkosh on June 20-21-22, 2014. About 30 people from around the globe tackled six specific projects to advance Plone...
When clients have high availability requirements for their Plone site, we recommend using the RelStorage implementation for the ZODB, combined with the PostgreSQL database platform. This post describes how to combine ZFS replication with PostgreSQL.
Patients rely heavily on search and hospital websites in the decision making process. Healthcare organizations should consider syndicating informational content to physician sites and pages to grow trust and aid in physician selection...
If you have multiple websites scattered across various CMSs, consider consolidating them to control them in one place to share across them and save time. Here's a few reasons you should consider consolidating your websites.
If your organization has multiple websites, multiple teams, and/or multiple CMS technologies, you need to integrate those sites to easily manage and syndicate content across them.
Looking to upgrade your existing Plone installation? Consider WebUnity, the complete multisite Plone package. Here are the top benefits of WebUnity over vanilla Plone...
Panic tends to get a hold of you when you realize you can't get to your site. Here is a list of steps to follow to determine the best course of action...