Content management

In Plone, User editable objects are content objects. Content objects have different flavours depending on their type.

Examples:

• Pages (ATDocument class)
• Images (ATImage class)
• News items
• Events
• etc.

There are two different subsystems to create content objects in Plone

• Archetypes (Plone 2.x and Plone 3.x)
• Dexterity (Plone 4.x and Plone 3.x)

• Creating objects
• Listing objects
• Manipulating objects
• Deleting
• Renaming content
• Content types
• Workflows
• Content identification (ids)
• Ownership of content
• Timestamps
• Dynamic views
• History and versioning
• Importing and exporting content
• Eventish content types
• Content rules
• Archetypes