Plone 33 Site Administration

This book is a step-by-step tutorial guide, explaining many common and fundamentally important Plone site administration tasks. 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.

This is a beginner's practical guide that doesn't involve any code or programming concepts. You will learn by pointing and clicking on the options available in front of you. It includes easy-to-follow instructions and screenshots that will guide you through creating a powerful website. Each chapter stands alone and you need not go through all the chapters. You can pick and choose depending upon your requirements. If you want to get a Plone site up and running quickly and don't want to get involved in programming, this book is for you. This book is aimed at beginners, who want to configure and customize Plone to meet their content management needs. The book doesn't expect programming skills, although some knowledge of fundamental web concepts such as HTML and HTTP may be helpful.

Introduction to Plone and Content Management; Installing Plone; Using your new plone site; Additional Plone elements; Customizing Plone; Creating and implementing a custom skin; Advanced content-related techniques; Technical administration.

* McKay is a member of Plone’s core development team—defining The Expert’s Voice in Open Source. * Author’s web site ZopeZen.org is a site dedicated to Zope-based applications and will plug book on the site. * Python programmers are a growing community and this will be the only up-to-date book on Plone for programmers. * For the latest information on Plone and the latest developments, visit: http://plone.org.

Annotation An in-depth and comprehensive guide for Plone website administrators and developers wanting to design, build, and manage content rich websites using Plone. Built on the powerful and popular Zope application server, Plone is regarded as one of the best and most powerful open source content management systems. Many compare it favorably to high-end commercial content management systems. Written by Plone expert Cameron Cooper, this book explains how Plone works, shows how to use its many out-of-the-box features, and how this highly flexible system can be extended and customized. Cameron?s deep understanding and fluid writing style make even the most complex aspects of Plone easy to understand. Beginners and experienced Plone users alike will find this book invaluable. This book is a practical guide to Plone. It written in a tutorial style, using examples and case studies to take you from the basics thorough to advanced Plone implementations. The book covers all aspects of understanding, implementing, and extending Plone including: Installing, running and managing PloneThe design and architecture of PloneManaging users and permissionsManaging and publishing contentUsing, extending writing Plone toolsCustomizing the layout of Plone websitesUsing relational databases with PloneIntegrating Plone websites with other websites and systemsOptimizing, securing, and improving the performance of Plone websitesPlone internationalization featuresPlone real world case studies.

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field. More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack This is the first comprehensive guide focused on securing the most common CMS platforms: Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, and Plone Provides the tools for integrating the Web site into business operations, building a security protocol, and developing a disaster recovery plan Covers hosting, installation security issues, hardening servers against attack, establishing a contingency plan, patching processes, log review, hack recovery, wireless considerations, and infosec policy CMS Security Handbook is an essential reference for anyone responsible for a Web site built on an open source CMS.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication can help you develop content and process management applications with IBM FileNet® APIs. The IBM FileNet P8 suite of products contains a set of robust APIs that range from core platform APIs to supporting application APIs. This book focuses specifically on Content Engine and Process Engine APIs. Content Engine API topics that we discuss include creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting objects; querying and viewing documents; and batching and batch execution. We also explore more complex topics, including permissions and authorization, versioning, relationships, annotations, workflow subscriptions and event actions, metadata discovery, and dynamic security inheritance. Process Engine API topics that we discuss include launching a workflow, searching for and processing work items, and working with process status. The more complex topics we cover include, Component Integrator application space, role, workbasket, resource navigation in Process Engine REST API, ECM Widgets, and building a custom Get Next In-basket widget. To help you better understand programming with IBM FileNet APIs, we provide a sample application implemented for a fictional company. We include the data model, security model, workflows, and various applications developed for the sample. You can download them for your reference. This book is intended for IBM FileNet P8 application developers. We recommend using this book in conjunction with the online ECM help.

IBM® Content Navigator provides a unified user interface for your Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. It also provides a robust development platform so you can build customized user interface and applications to deliver value and an intelligent, business-centric experience. This IBM Redbooks® publication guides you through the Content Navigator platform, its architecture, and the available programming interfaces. It describes how you can configure and customize the user interface with the administration tools provided, and how you can customize and extend Content Navigator using available development options with sample code. Specifically, the book shows how to set up a development environment, and develop plug-ins that add an action, service, and feature to the user interface. Customization topics include implementing request and response filters, external data services (EDS), creating custom step processors, and using Content Navigator widgets in other applications. This book also covers mobile development, viewer customization, component deployment, and debugging and troubleshooting. This book is intended for IT architects, application designers and developers working with IBM Content Navigator and IBM ECM products. It offers a high-level description of how to extend and customize IBM Content Navigator and also more technical details of how to do implementations with sample code.