paab

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 09, 2008 — tested with Plone 3

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...
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Paab 0.2 - Policy Package
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Paab 0.2 - Buildout

Project Description

paab

The 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!