Plone - The Open Source CMS

This document is a community maintained manual for the Plone content management system.

Warning

This version is mostly for version 3.3.x of Plone, which hasn't been updated since 2011. It is here to help those who still run Plone 3 sites, and for those feeling nostalgic. We recommend to work with the current stable version of Plone. You can find the latest version of the documentation on http://docs.plone.org

The target audience of the documentation includes

• Content editors: writing, updating and ordering the actual content of the site
• Site administrators: installing Plone, add-ons and setting up the site
• Designers: changing Plone's visual appearance
• Deployers: hosting Plone for production on a server
• Developers: Customizing Plone, developing add-ons, and improving Plone itself

• Introduction
  • What is Plone?
  • What does Plone mean? How is it pronounced?

• Working with Content
  • Introduction
  • Logging In
  • Adding Content
  • Managing Content
  • Using TinyMCE as visual editor
  • Collaboration and Workflow
  • Using Listings & Queries (Collections)
  • Portlet Management
  • Create and maintain good quality content
  • Using Kupu as visual editor

• Adapting & Extending Plone
  • Basic Changes (Look and Feel)
  • Theming Plone
  • Configuration and Control panel
  • Installing Add-ons
  • Custom Content-Types

• Managing, Administration of Plone
  • Installing Plone
  • Guide to deploying and installing Plone in production
  • Plone Upgrade Guide
  • Troubleshooting

• Developing for Plone
  • Developing add-ons
  • Programming with Plone
  • Importing content from other systems
  • Tutorials

• Appendices
  • Glossary
  • Error Reference
  • older manuals

• About this documentation
  • Contributing to the documentation
  • Rest Styleguide
  • Helper tools for writing Documentation
  • Documentation Styleguide for Add ons
  • Changelog

• License for Plone Documentation
• Asking for help