A few days ago I encountered a problem while deploying Plone 4 with collective.xdv to a CentOS cloud instance. Since CentOS’ repos were a bit out of date I needed to statically compile lxml and it’s dependencies with z3c.recipe.staticlxml. Here’s what you need to add to your buildout.cfg to do so: parts += lxml eggs…

So you want paid membership on your Plone site? Look no further, we present to you niteoweb.clickbank. It’s a Plone 4 add-on that integrates ClickBank digital products retailer system with Plone to enable paid memberships on your Plone site. It’s very simple to install and use. Project page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/niteoweb.clickbank Documentation: http://packages.python.org/niteoweb.clickbank Code: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/niteoweb.clickbank

MladiPodjetnik.si is a portal we’ve been actively developing since 2006 and has since seen 3 revisions. The latest one, running on Plone 3.1, was running out of juice due to enormous increase in traffic in the last year. It was time to do some performance optimization. 1. We started out by upgrading Plone to the…

It’s time for a new website release. This time it’s Vodja.si. Vodja.si is a presentation website for a NLP and leadership trainer Marjan Račnik. The base for the project is default Plone CMS with a unique theme developed from a Photoshop mockup and some Plone add-ons such as ContentWellPortlets. The site also has an intranet…

Last week we introduced a new project – BigContentSearch.com. It will be the first PLR membership website on the internet with over 100,000 articles in a searchable database. Since we are dealing with a huge amount of data, we want to use Plone 4 with it’s out-of-the-box blob storage capabilities. Since Plone 4 is still…

The collective.xdv manual on plone.org tells you how to customize your buildout.cfg in order to be able to run collective.xdv on OS X. However if you are working in a team of developers where not everyone is using OS X, it’s nice to have your specific buildout hacks in a separate osx.cfg file. Below is…

During the first month of 2010 we’ve been busy developing a new site for Erasmus students in Ljubljana – LifeInLjubljana.si. It helps Erasmus students coming to Ljubljana to easily find a room and connect with other Erasmus students already in Ljubljana. We use custom developed content types to provide a the list of available flats/beds with…