Tutorials

Collections - Advanced

Explanation of some of the more advanced features of Collections

Creating a Collection

How to create a collection

Creating a Private Board Section

Learn the steps to build a restricted section on your site that only board members can access. This tutorial will also work for other groups you'd like to give limited access to like: Volunteers, Donors, Collaborators, or Staff.

Creating and Using Smart Folders

Smart folders are a powerful new innovation in Plone. Learn how to create and use them in this tutorial

Creating and Using Tables

This tutorial will teach you about using tables to control the layout of a webpage, and how to create tables for listings.

Creating Online Forms with PloneFormGen tool

How to create forms for your website with the PloneFormGen tool.

Customizing PloneFormGen

Here are a number of ways you can customize PloneFormGen.

Full Tutorial Plone 2.0

This tutorial builds off of the skills learned in the Quickstart for Plone 2.0.

Giving a user permissions, creating groups, adding users to groups

This tutorial describes the different roles that members can have in the site and how you can give a site user permission to add, edit, or manage content for a single page, a folder, or the entire site.

How to Move Existing Content into Plone

This tutorial will explain the various ways of moving content from your old website into Plone. You'll learn how to move images, content from Word documents, and more!

PloneFormGen Recipies

A series of neat things you can do with PloneFormGen: contact form, petition form, volunteer signup form, and more!

Portlet Management

This tutorial aims to give a brief introduction to the structure, types, and how to use portlets. Specific to Plone 3+.

Preparing Images for the Web

Learn some basic techniques for resizing and compressing images.

Quick Start for Plone 2.0

This tutorial is designed to give you a quick introduction to your Plone-powered website. By the time you're done, you should be able to log in and edit an existing web page in your site. This is a good tutorial to start with if you're unfamiliar with Plone.

Quick Start - Plone 3

This tutorial is designed to give you a quick introduction to your Plone-powered website. This is a good tutorial to start with if you're unfamiliar with Plone. The content of this tutorial is directed at sites built with Plone 3 (or Plone 2.5 with Kupu 1.4+ installed).

Quick Start - Plone 2.1

This tutorial is designed to give you a quick introduction to your Plone-powered website. By the time you're done, you should be able to log in and edit an existing web page in your site. This is a good tutorial to start with if you're unfamiliar with Plone. <br /><br /> <i>Please Note - It is assumed that you already have a Plone website ready for editing. If you need instructions for downloading and installing Plone, please visit <a href="http://www.plone.org">Plone.Org</a></i><br /><br />

Tips for Managing Your Content

Techniques you can use to help manage your content. This tutorial will cover novel ways to use Collections, advanced search, and how to adjust the Site Search settings.