FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions.
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- General
- About Plone
- Getting Plone
- Installing Plone
- Configuring Plone
- Administering Plone
- Customizing Plone
- Add-On Products
- Templates / Changing Visual Design
- Plone CSS
- Creating New Content Types
- Security
- Users and Groups
- Internationalization
- Workflow
- Plone and Relational Databases
- Licensing & Legal Questions
- Contributing
- Documentation
- Various
General
- Does Plone do what I'm looking for?
- What does Plone mean? How is it pronounced?
- What browsers does Plone work with?
- Are there any online chat rooms for Plone?
- Are there any news groups for Plone?
- Should I learn Zope and/or CMF before I start with Plone?
- What is Zope 3, and how does it relate to Plone?
- Importing existing HTML content into Plone
- Can I format text such and so in the visual editor?
- What does the Plone logo mean?
- How can I find a Plone consultant or developer to work on my project?
- How do I restart Zope?
- What is a CMS?
- What language translations are available for Plone?
Installing Plone
- What kind of server is recommended for Plone?
- I add a plone site: Error Type: Attribute Error, Error Value: get
- What are the recommended versions of Zope, CMF and Python required to run Plone?
- How do I upgrade to a newer release of Plone?
- How do I tell which version of Plone I am running?
- Why won't Plone start on Windows 2003?
- On Windows XP I get "No python installation found in the registry" when installing certain Products
- How Do I Install Python Modules To The Unified Installer?
- I see <Products.Five.metaclass.Plone object at ...> when trying to access my Plone instance
- SyntaxErrors while running buildout tool
- Plone 4.0.x does not start on Windows
Configuring Plone
- How do I integrate with LDAP / Active Directory / Open Directory?
- Plone slow? How to make a small Plone site go fast!
- How scalable is Plone?
- How do you allow Anonymous posting of the News section?
- What does "Allow discussion" mean?
- How do I turn off Member area creation?
- Can I create a Plone site inside my existing Plone site?
- The setup of Plone and Zope on Windows isn't the same as regular Zope. How is it set up?
- Can I change the default language?
- How do I add a role?
- How can I securely manage Plone remotely over SSL?
- Where did the Navigation portlet go in Plone 3.0?
- How do I enable Wiki-style markup?
- What do I paste into the "JavaScript for web statistics support" box in Plone 3?
- How do I enable the syndication tab in Plone 3.0?
- How can I change reStructuredText header levels?
Administering Plone
- Plone slow? How to make a small Plone site go fast!
- I need to upload lots of images/files to my Plone site, what's the best way?
- Why is the Plone Controller causing ZoneAlarm (or other firewall) to raise a warning?
- How do you specify who is the reviewer of the site?
- I added the product X to zope but I can't add it to plone.
- I want to translate my site to an another language, how?
- Where is my site actually stored? How can I move my Plone instance between different servers? What should I back up?
- I can't seem to log out of my Plone site - what's wrong?
- I locked myself out from my Plone instance; what can I do?
- How can I find the items over a particular size?
- Where are the Plone logs stored?
- Help! Zope won't start!
- How do I set the default index document
- How do I add MyType as a default page for a folder?
- I get memory errors running Plone on NetBSD, why?
- How do I put Plone into read-only mode?
- How do I restart Zope?
- How do I pack the ZODB?
- How Do I Install Python Modules To The Unified Installer?
- How do I enable Member Folders in Plone 3?
- Do I have to restart Zope periodically?
- How do I put parts of a distributed ZEO-based Plone into read-only mode?
Customizing Plone
- How do you stop display of author information (aka. byline)?
- How do I add my own member properties?
- My portal_tabs are not visually selected
- How do I add MyType as a default page for a folder?
- How do I remove Icons?
- The default TITLE tag says "Plone site". How do I change that?
- Why doesn't the "my folder" link show up in the personal bar?
Creating New Content Types
- How can I make customized content types?
- How can I make a pre-populated folder, one with pre-existing sub-folders and/or other content types, through-the-web?
- I repurpose a content type but when I'm on a edit_form and I click save nothing happens?
- What is Archetypes?
- Enable title-to-id generation
- Display Date only in Calendar Widget
- How can I test which version of Plone I have running?
- Why doesn't my custom content type show up in Add menu?
Various
- Why do links become relative in the visual editor?
- Why don't news items respect the effective and expiration date?
- How can I change the name in the byline?
- How do I stop Mac OS X from creating .DS_Store files on WebDAV upload?
- How can I test which version of Plone I have running?
- How do I stop acquisition?
- What does the server setup for the plone.org website look like?