Part 1 – Background

Chapter 1 Introducing Plone—Jon Stahl

What is a CMS? What is Plone, and where did it come from?

Chapter 2 Installing Plone—Steve McMahon

Learn how to get Plone up and running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Chapter 3 A Brief Tour of Plone—Tom Conklin

Get an overview of Plone's user interface and key features.

Part 2 – I want to...

Chapter 4 Create Web Pages—Sam Knox

Learn how to create and publish web pages with Plone's built-in visual editor.

Chapter 5 Add News Items, Events, Links, and Files—Tom Conklin

Learn about the other standard content types, such as news items, events, and files.

Chapter 6 Structure the Content in My Site—Tom Conklin

Learn how to use folders and Collections to structure your content.

Chapter 7 Safely Manage Different Versions of Content—Darci Hanning

Understand Plone's built-in versioning features.

Chapter 8 Delegate Content Management to Other People—Tom Conklin

Learn how to create users and groups and give them permissions over various parts of your site.

Chapter 9 Manage Approvals and Other Workflow for My Content—Matt Bowen

Customize your security model by creating a workflow.

Chapter 10 Show Additional Information to Users and Visitors—Jon Stahl

Learn about Plone's Portlet features.

Chapter 11 Automate Tasks with Content Rules—Alex Clark

Build intelligence into your content management through the use of Content Rules.

Chapter 12 Control My Site's Configuration—Alex Clark

Detailed explanations of the various Plone control panels.

Part 3 – Now that I've got the basics, I'd like to learn how to...

Chapter 13 Set Up a Repeatable Environment using Buildout—Clayton Parker

Set up a development environment with various debugging tools.

Chapter 14 Find and Install Add-ons That Expand Plone's Functionality—Steve McMahon

Learn how to find and install add-on components that are freely available online.

Chapter 15 Build Forms—Jon Stahl (with Steve McMahon)

Create web forms quickly and easily.

Chapter 16 Create New Content Types—Matt Bowen

Create custom content types to capture and manage specific information.

Chapter 17 Customize Plone—Veda Williams

Learn how to customize Plone's various UI components.

Chapter 18 Change the Look and Feel—David Convent, Veda Williams

Create a custom theme for your site.

Part 4 – My boss wants me to...

Chapter 19 Take My Site Live—Steve McMahon

Learn how to configure a live Plone server.

Chapter 20 Make It Go Faster—Ricardo Newbery

Configure a web cache to make Plone faster.

Chapter 21 Connect to Your LDAP/Active Directory Repository—John DeStefano

Let your users log in with their existing usernames and passwords by connecting to an existing LDAP/Active Directory server.