Plone Core Developer Reference

This reference manual describes the conventions, concepts and components of the core Plone codebase. It is intended as a point of reference for new developers who want to be able to contribute, and for old developers who are doing things they haven't done before. At the moment, it is a work in progress, sections will be expanded as we are able to find time. This manual is of course useful to anybody doing development with Plone, but will focus on documenting the areas important to development of Plone itself.

  1. Overview
    1. Audience
    2. Contributing
    3. Release process
    4. Special events
    5. The role of Zope 3
    6. Other resources
  2. Conventions and professional practice
    1. Package naming conventions
    2. Style
    3. Version control
    4. Unit testing Plone
  3. Plone patterns and best practice
    1. Performance
    2. Usability
    3. Testability
    4. Localisability
    5. Views
    6. Adapters
    7. Future proofing
    8. Debugging
  4. General Plone concepts
    1. Migration and portal creation
      1. Portal creation and migration concepts
      2. Writing migrations
      3. Testing migrations
  5. Specific areas
    1. Content types
      1. ATContentTypes
      2. The 'display' menu
      3. Restricting addable types
      4. From Zope to the Browser
    2. Navigation structures
      1. Navigation root
      2. Constructing the navigation tree
      3. Constructing the sitemap
      4. Navigation tabs
      5. Breadcrumbs

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