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Plone SEO provides a product designed by Quintagroup to enhance search engine visibility of Plone sites.
Plone SEO (qSEOptimizer) is a product designed by Quintagroup to enhance search engine visibility of Plone sites. Plone SEO allows per document editing of META tags and Title tag.
Main features:
- Allows per document editing of:
- HTML Title tag
- META description tag
- META keywords tag
- HTML comment into page header
- META robots tag
- META Disposition tag
- Usage
- Install as usual Plone product
- Install in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
- Go to Plone Control Panel, enable Plone SEO for desired content types
- Go to a document (Blog entry, news item, event, etc)
- Switch to SEO Properties tab
- Select Override checkboxes of features you want to override
- Type-in your SEO values
- Save
- Do this for all documents that needs enhanced SEO properties
Enhancements:
- fixed IE related javascript bug in word counters

Plone is an out-of-the-box ready content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope Application server.
Plone CMS requires minimal effort to set up, is deeply flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities and intranets.
Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you dont need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.
Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.
By default, Plone stores its contents in Zopes built in transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.
Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms; easy click installers are available for Windows and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux. For full information, see Download.
Main features:
- Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
- Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and mantain content.
- Plone is international. The Plone interface has been translated into over 20 languages, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
- Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3Cs AAA rating for accessibility.
- Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license used by Linux. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
- Plone is supported. There is close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and a multitude of companies that specialize in Plone development and support.
- Plone is extensible. There is a multitude of add-on products for Plone to add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.
- Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.

PloneNewsLetter provides a product for sending newsletters based on new Plone content to an email address in TXT or HTML format.
PloneNewsLetter gives you the possibility to create your custom newsletters. The newsletter is prepared for being sent using your favourite mass mailer, and can be directly published on your site.
The process of creating your PloneNewsLetter:
- You create a new PloneNewsLetter
- Using PloneNewsLetter, you search your Plone site for content
- You select the documents that you want to make it into the newsletter
- You can click on the "create" button, and an html and text version of the newsletter are created.
- The html and text versions can now be edited and viewed quickly in a preview window.
- Once you are satisfied with the result, you can send the newsletter to your email address.
- You can use your favourite mass mailer to distribute the newsletter Features:
- The templates used for production of the newsletter are fully customizable.
- The selection of objects for the newsletter is remembered, so you dont have to reselect everything just because you changed the templates.
- If the user publishes the newsletters content, all users will see the HTML version of the newsletter. That way the the newsletter is automatically archived online.
- PloneNewsLetter consists of two object:
- A content type, for users
- A Portal Tool, for settings

Plone Skin Dump is a product which allows to create Plone product based on some ZMI located skin folder.
Plone Skin Dump (qPloneSkinDump) allows to create Plone product based on some ZMI located skin folder (eg "custom") from portal_skins. So you can easy create Plone product with skin based on folder with customized styles and page templates.
Usage
Install qPloneSkinDump as Zope product
Install qPloneSkinDump in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
Create folder ( ) in portal_skins and fill it according to your needs.
Go to the Plone Control Panel and edit corresponding data.
For using new Plone product you must reload Zope, and install it in quickinstaller.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug of dumping to new Skin Product objects with none ascii characters

PloneiCalendar allows you to share and browse calendar files in Plone, and manage them in your calendar application.
PloneiCalendar is a product designed by Ingeniweb to handle calendar files in Plone. It is based on the iCalendar file format.
Once an PloneiCalendar is created in Plone, you can share it with other users or groups (you can give read or write permissions), browse it by day, week and month or modify it by using standard calendar applications like Mozilla Calendar or Apple iCal (or Ximian Evolution or KOrganizer or whatever you want - may be even Microsoft Outlook ;) ).
Main features:
- Upload and download your calendars in Plone
- Give permissions to users or groups to view/modify your calendars
- Browse your calendars by day, week or month
- Instantly find all your calendars with the included portlet
- View the event details
- All-day events and most recurring events are supported
- Handling of simultaneous events, even in complex cases (see screenshot)
- Handling of i18n date formats (currently, english and french formats can be displayed)
- Cool looknfeel : color integration with your plone site, personalization of the color of your calendars, 100% pure CSS in the calendar views (no table used)

Freedom Plone Skin provides a skin based on Plone Skin Dump product.

Freedom is one of Plone skins from Alternative Plone Skins project.

You can install Freedom Plone skin in the same way as other Plone products:

- Install as Zope product: extract Plone skin from archive to directory of products and restart Zope server.
- Install in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
- Now your Plone site should have the corresponding skin look.

Note: Freedom Plone skin was created with Plone skin dump product.

PloneSelenium provides a product for web-based functional tests.
PloneSelenium is a Plone Product allowing developers to create TTW Selenium test suites with a single Python Script, in order to do browser-based functional testing of their site.
Once you have developped the tests with PloneSelenium, you can run them in batch mode in Zelenium.
Functional tests are exported from PloneSelenium to Zelenium, so you can profit from the Zelenium features.
Enhancements:
- Disjointed scripts names from action title and id
- Making it possible to start tests as anonymous when the test users were not yet created using a manager user.