Plone Content Management Essentials is a practical and thorough hands-on guide to using the powerful open-source content website publishing system, Plone. With this book as your guide, you will thoroughly understand how and when to utilize Plone, as well as how to install, configure and maintain a Plone-based website. You'll also be able to download the latest Plone installation from our website so that you can apply what you learn in the book. No prior knowledge of Plone is required to learn from this book, but it will enhance what you takeaway.
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Rating: - Not recommended, maybe six pages of useful info
This book has maybe six pages of useful info. It tells how to make a custom portlet.
Much of what it describes is obvious from looking at the Plone interface. Moreover, I suspect that the author may not know Plone or Zope very well.
Save your money. The other Plone books are better.
Rating: - good, but outdated and unsupported
If you're looking to buy this book now for use with a modern incarnation of Plone, you may want to rethink your decision and look elsewhere. Aside from being written against Plone 2.0 (Plone is currently at version 2.5.1, with 3.0 looming in a few months), and thereby having some tips and instructions that no longer work as originally intended, the book includes some typographical errors (as do many books), a few of which are horrible and misleading. I've actually done everything from inquiring ... Read More
Rating: - Outdated and misleading code examples
If you are a designer who wants to know how to customize Plone's look beyond changing colors and fonts, you'll be disappointed in this book. Sure, the introduction is still good, but chapter 6 (for example), which instructs you to work with the Plone Base Properties file is giving you an outdated method, not well suited to upgrades and maintenance. I believe that stylesheets are the way to go, now...but I'm still trying to figure it out, no thanks to this book. The instructions for adding slots in ... Read More
Rating: - Ok for general concepts, outdated for specifics
The book starts out promising, with the first chapter being a very good quick intro to CMS and Plone and the types of things that CMS can do for you. However, once you start getting into the specifics, it quickly become clear that this book is now outdated. Many of the examples are hard to follow because the current version of Plone has different options or features. Also, the examples cover only the "low hanging fruit" - the easiest of tasks, many of which you can figure out on your own just by ... Read More
Rating: - It means well but has typos
The premise of the book is very good. The book gets you up and running on Plone if you're a beginner, and explains concepts and features well. That until you hit one of the many snags. There are several parts where the instructions are missing, vague, or utterly contradictory. It will definitely send you on a "troubleshooting trip" or you might just have to skip the section altogether. Just a warning.
- Not recommended, maybe six pages of useful info
- Outdated and misleading code examples
