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Auto add all new files to SVN

If you've added a bunch of changes to a local SVN copy, in a bunch of different places, then try running this little beauty:

Taming Plone's advanced search

In my opinion, Plone's 'livesearch' is one of it's most rewarding features. We recently moved our company intranet to Plone 3, and livesearch ...

Configuring buildout to ...

Yesterday morning I came in to work to find that my (previously fine) plone 3 buildout kept failing to rebuild. After much debugging and googling, I ...

Moving an object to the top ...

As whizzy as Plone 3's AJAX drag-and-drop folder re-ordering is, it's fairly unusable when you have a large number of items and need to move an item ...

Opening PDFs in a new window

A request we often get from customers is to make all links to PDF files in their Plone site open in a new window. This prevents the confusing ...

DateTime in Plone 3

Back in the days of Plone 2.x, page templates used to be able to just access Zope's DateTime module like this:

Custom viewlet managers are ...

In a recent project we were tasked with producing a Plone 3 site in which the initial 'gateway' page had a different layout and style to the other ...

Plone 3: Showing 'default ...

The simplest way I've found so far, which is not as simple as it should be, is as follows:

Simple scripting with KSS

Javascript sucks, but it's what we're stuck with.

Dealing with svn conflicts: ...

If you get a conflict on an svn update, manually edit your file to sort out the conflict and then run:

Selecting random images from ...

How to easily create a viewlet that displays a random image selected from the skin:

How to share a URL quickly

To give me the ability to distract colleagues all as often as possible, whilst taking as little time out of my own day, I have an 'email this page' ...

Open remote files in your ...

Emacs 'tramp' (remote file loading) is great, but what if you are in an ssh session and want to open a file without having to work out the full ...

Internationalised email ...

Here is how you create international characters in email headers. Useful if people have umlauts and accents in their name:

Plone form fieldset tabbing

If you need to create a set of tabbed panes in a site, you can use the existing stuff in Plone to do so. You can either do so in a form eg:

How To remove portlets using ...

As of Plone 3.1, you can now hide portlets via generic setup. As an example, save this 'portlets.xml' to your profiles/default directory and ...

Changing the preview size of ...

If you are using an 'Image' field, and want to control the size of the image that base_edit or base_view will show, then you can do the following:

Plone 3 global defines and ...

If you're in a page template and want to access something a little more complicated without writing a view class, try looking in this egg: