Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Manage your site like a Plone professional

Key Features

• Covers Plone basics from a site administrator's perspective
• Learn how to use Buildout to develop, deploy, and maintain a modern Plone site
• Enhance the functionality and appearance of your web site by using third-party add-ons
• Features many useful Buildout recipes from the Python Package Index
• Written by Alex Clark, an expert Plone site administrator and member of the plone.org infrastructure team

Book Description

What you will learn

• The basics of Plone site administration
• Installing Python, Distribute, Buildout, PIP, Plone, and more
• Changing the appearance of your Plone site with freely available, professional-looking themes
• Automating maintenance tasks to keep your site running smoothly with less effort
• Securing, backing up, and monitoring your Plone site
• Maximizing the performance of your Plone site by applying various site optimization techniques

Who this book is for

This book is designed for site administrators, webmasters, or content editors managing a site with Plone. These users will not be new to Plone itself, but they will be new to the site administration tasks. The reader is also expected to know basic Python programming. This book caters to these users, and builds their confidence by helping them to get their Plone sites up, running, and customized with minimal peripheral knowledge.