Getting Started with Plone
This non-technical training class is geared towards individuals who will be managing a Plone website or creating content.
This course assumes that students have a basic understanding of web technologies. No previous experience with Plone is required.
If you would like to do some reading before the class, we recommend A User's Guide to Plone by Thomas Lotze and Jan Ulrich Hasecke (available as a free download), or the Plone User Manual.
This is a hands-on class and students should bring a laptop computer.
The following syllabus may be adjusted slightly depending on student interests.
First Hour
Getting Started
- What is a Content Management System?
- Logging in to Plone
Creating Content
- Content types
- Pages
- Files, Images
- News, Events
- Adding content - Exercise
Workflow
- Workflow states
- Private
- Published
- Submitted
- Publishing content - Exercise
Second Hour
Information Architecture
- Designing a usable IA
- Browsing
- Searching
- Collections
- Finding content - Exercise
Folders
- Contents tab
- Navigating folders
- Reordering content
- Cutting, pasting, and deleting content
- Managing content - Exercise
- Organizing content in folders
- What can be added
- Folder views
- Default pages
Third Hour
Rich Page Content
- WYSIWYG editing
- Inline editing
- Links
- Managing images
- Metadata
- Keywords
- Related items
- Commenting
- Publishing dates
- Rich page editing - Exercise
Fourth Hour
Collections
- What are collections?
- Criteria
- Ordering
- Sub-collections
- Views
- Adding collections - Exercise
Portlets
- Managing portlets
- Portlet types
- Static portlets
- Collection portlets
- RSS portlets
- Calendar and Event portlets
- News portlets
- Adding portlets - Exercise
