Taking it further

EnSimpleStaging is, as its name suggests, quite simple. It helps you move content from the staging sandbox to the public site, and it can filter what it stages based on workflow state. By not being more restrictive, EnSimpleStaging allows you to manage your site and authoring process using other Plone tools more easily.

Here are some suggestions for how you may want to configure your system:

Unstaged content -- Let's say you wanted an issue tracker in your site. Staging that makes no sense. Luckily, EnSimpleStaging is clever enough to leave unstaged content in the 'public_site' alone. Hence, you can simply add your issue tracker object to the public site manually, and it will be left alone.

Multiple workspaces -- You can add several staging areas, and use different permissions on each via the 'sharing' tab. Hence, different groups in your organisation can use different workspaces to manage different parts of the site.

Multiple workflows -- With "CMFPlacefulWorkflow":/products/cmfplacefulworkflow you can even have content different workflows for each workspace.

Multiple stages -- You can make one stage deploy into another. For example, you could let several teams each have their own workspace, all deploying into a single staging area. This area would be used to view the site as a whole, before being deployed to 'public_website'. Permissions and workflows would probably be different in each workspace.