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paab
Category: Weblogs
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paab - Plone As A Blog - a project to customize Plone's default behavior to be used as a Weblog.
Current release: paab 0.2
Released Mar 9, 2008 — tested with Plone 3.0
Special display views for folder and collections for blog use cases. New content rules for keywords and folders. Content type renamig (news items->blog post, folder->blog section) and more...
Experimental releases
Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Project Description
- Project resources
Documentation
Releases
Roadmap
Issue tracker
Project page
Code repositoryThe main goal of the project is to develop the required products to modify the plone's default behavior and features to be used as a blog.
The paab's approach is minimalistic. The idea is to remove funcionalities, change existing ones and add portlets specific for blog sites.
Features
- it reuses Plone at maximun and it adds minimum stuff
- special blog display views for folder and news items
- special content rules for keyword and folder blog management
- buildout and policy products
- collection as a default home page
- summary view as a default collection view
- and more: check roadmap 0.1 and roadmap 0.2 for further information
Sites using paab
Requirements
- Plone 3 (tested with Plone 3.0.5 and Plone 3.0.6)
Install and test paab!
- Install a new Plone instance with paab
If you want to try paab this is the best and fastest way, in this document you'll see how to install Plone and paab using buildout. - Installing paab in a already working Plone
Follow this how to if you need to install paab in a already working Plone installed without buidout.
