Plone Theme Reference

This Reference Manual applies to: Plone 3.1.x, Plone 3.0.x
This Reference Manual is intended for: Integrators, Customizers

All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)

1. Introduction
   1. Aims and Prerequisites
   2. What's a Plone Theme?
   3. Overview
2. Approaches
   1. From Scratch or Based on Plone Default?
   2. Through the Web or on the File System?
   3. Future Directions
3. Tools
   1. Authoring Tools
   2. Debug Mode
   3. Creating a Theme Egg or Product
4. Building Blocks
   1. Overview
   2. Skin
      1. Templates and the Templating Language
      2. The Custom Style Sheet and Base Properties
      3. Skin Layers
      4. Customizing through Order of Precedence
      5. Making and Naming your own Skin
      6. Where to find what you need
   3. Components
      1. Component Wiring and ZCML
      2. Viewlets, Portlets and Other Components
      3. Customizing or Creating New
      4. Component Parts
         1. Interfaces and why they matter
         2. Python Classes
         3. Permission
      5. Making Components Theme Specific
      6. Skin or Components?
      7. Where to find what you need
   4. Configuration
      1. Profiles
      2. Generic Setup XML
      3. The Generic Setup Tool
      4. Where to find what you need
5. Putting a Page Together
   1. Content to Template
   2. Templates and Components to Page
   3. CSS and JavaScript to Page
   4. Using Other Information about your Site on a Page
6. Page Elements
   1. Viewlet
      1. Anatomy of a Viewlet
      2. Moving, Removing or Hiding a Viewlet
      3. Overriding or Creating a New Viewlet
   2. Portlet
      1. Anatomy of a Portlet
      2. Moving, Removing or Hiding a Portlet
      3. Overriding a Portlet
   3. Viewlet Manager
      1. Anatomy of a Viewlet Manager
      2. Moving, Removing or Hiding a Viewlet Manager
      3. Creating a New Viewlet Manager
   4. Portlet Manager
      1. Moving or Removing a Portlet Manager
      2. Hiding a Portlet Manager
      3. Creating a New Portlet Manager
   5. Page Elements Index
   6. Structural Elements
      1. Header
   7. Hidden Elements
      1. Skip Links
      2. HTML Head Title
      3. Next Previous Links
      4. Favicon Link
      5. Search Link
      6. Author Link
      7. Navigation Link
      8. Analytics
   8. Visible Page Elements
      1. Language Selector
      2. Site Actions
      3. Search Box
      4. Logo
      5. Global Sections
      6. Personal Bar
      7. Path Bar (Portal Breadcrumbs)
      8. Content Views
      9. Content Actions
      10. Table of Contents
      11. Presentation
      12. Keywords
      13. Byline
      14. Lock
      15. Document Actions
      16. Comments
      17. Workflow History
      18. Next Previous
      19. Footer
      20. Colophon
7. Where is What
   1. Where is What on the Page
   2. Where's my Zope Instance?
   3. Where's my Products Directory?
   4. Where's my Egg Location?
   5. Location of files in your own Theme Product
   6. Files for the Skin
   7. Files for Components
   8. Files for Configuration
   9. Files for Installing your Egg
   10. Files for Installing your Theme
8. Illustrations
   1. Elements