Popular Plone Add-ons: 2016

Plone add-ons that you really should know about

This list of add-ons was gathered by the Plone community through the 2016 Paragon initiative and is based on experience from integrators, developers, and site owners. In alphabetical order:

collective.addthis

Brings addthis.com services to Plone

collective.contentleadimage

Supports adding a descriptive image to Archetypes based content types

collective.disqus

Integrates the Disqus commenting platform API into Plone

collective.embedly

Provides TinyMCE visual editor support for the embed.ly service - videos, images and other rich media can be inserted to Plone

collective.lineage

Microsites for Plone - makes subfolders appear to be autonomous Plone sites

collective.solr and alm.solrindex

Two different ways to integrate Solr, the Lucene based search engine, into Plone

eea.facetednavigation

Turn folders and collections into faceted searches

ftw.calendar

A calendar view based on arshaw.com/fullcalendar

plone.app.imagecropping

Manually crop images in Plone using the cropper JS library

plone.app.mosaic

Tiled layouts for Plone

Products.ContentWellPortlets

Put portlets in places other than right and left columns

Products.PloneFormGen

A through-the-web form generator for Plone

Products.PloneKeywordManager

Manage Plone tags (aka keywords or subjects - change, merge and delete

Products.RedirectionTool

Manage aliases for pages

webcouturier.dropdownmenu

Generate dropdown menus for a site's global navigation

wildcard.foldercontents

Plone 5 folder contents functionality for Plone 4 sites