How Tos

How to add a News Folder

Sometimes you want your users only to add contents of a certain type at a specific location or you want to display another icon for an specific (type of) Folder, or you want to display certain hirarchies of News.

How to add a Bookmark Folder

Bookmarks have one major drawback. They are local to the machine. Active internet users using more then one PC/OS need to store and access their bookmarks online. Other Programs like del.icio.us , sitebar , stumbleupon or oneview address this issue as well and may be more elaborate. This is a simple HowTo? do the same thing in Plone.

How to add Icons to the personal bar

The Personal Bar is the bar you see on top of this page in between the tabs and the breadcrumbs. Per default the icon is the linkOpaque.gif wich is IMHO quite dull.

How to add Icons to the Portal Tabs

Adding Icons to the Portal-Tabs is actually quite easy, you only have to get the hang of it how it is done (well OK, a CSS Guru will tell you this is obvious but it was not for me). This howto will show also that you can use a little logic in the CSS usind DTML.

How to add Icons to the Portal Tabs

This actually can be done using CSS only. This Version modifies the global_sections.pt

Breadcrumbs contextual icon

This was inspired by CPSSkins 2.1.8 Its a very easy and basic customization of Plone.

How to add topic Icons to CMFBoard

Sometimes you want to have other icons for your topics then the standard CMFBoard? ones, or you want to have specific icons for for a certain Forum Folder. (i.e. a Folder Help + Bugs -> bugicon, ideaicon, helpicon.... or a personal ad folder -> Rose, Kiss, Hug, ....)

Portlet to display a random Photo

This Portlet displays a random Photo. It needs CMFPhoto and CMFPhotoAlbum.

Portlet that displays Portaltabs

If you do not want the Portaltabs on top of your Plonesite but want to display the Links at the slots this is for you

Portlet that displays Useractions

The useractions are displayed on top of your Plonesite. This Howto shows you how you put that into a portlet.

How To add a Google Sitemap

The Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform search engine crawlers about URLs on your Web sites that are available for crawling. The XML Sitemap Format provides a list of URLs and includes additional information about those URLs.

How to copy colorZ into your base_properties

The excelent Colorz Skin has one big drawback. It replaces plone.css with its own version. But there is a way around that ...