Introduction

Description

A simple tutorial introducing the basics of Plone development.

This tutorial uses simple examples to introduce Plone development. The examples cover a basic form, custom content-type, and dynamic view.

It also has detailed sections on building a development environment, installing Plone, and creating an add-on package for your development code.

Note

There are many ways to install Plone.

In the examples, we build a new version of Python 2.7 and create a virtual_env using the new Python. We then install Plone within the virtual_env using ZopeSkel 2.21.2.

This can be a lot of work, just to try some hello world examples in Plone.

You don't have to do it this way. You can create a similar environment using the Plone 4 installers. The examples should all work with little or no adjustment.

There are benefits to managing your own Python development environment. The choice is up to you.

This tutorial is only an introduction to Plone development. Other areas of the developer manual have more detailed information. We link to some of those areas in the examples below.