Plone Tutorials

Tutorials on Plone Visual Design & Plone Themes
Tutorials about Plone Hosting, sharing light on Quintagroup Plone Hosting issues
General tutorials about work with Plone CMS & Plone Products
Quick-start guide to Plone: tutorials for Plone beginners

Plone Visual Design & Plone Themes

Green Bean Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Here you will find instructions on how to customize Green Bean Theme for Plone 4.3 and 5.0: change its default logo, top image, panels, footer, portlets; configure sliders and carousel; add testimonial styles and social media icons.
Domino Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: With this Plone tutorial you can customize Domino Theme for Plone 4.3: change its default logo, color schemes, panels, footer, portlets; configure sliders and carousel; add social media icons.

Sliced Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial will help you to customize Sliced Theme for Plone 4.2 and 4.3: change its default logo, main colors, top image, panels, footer, portlets; configure sliders and carousel; add social media icons and hover effects.
Publisher's Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Using this Plone tutorial you can learn how to customize Publisher's Theme for Plone 4.3 and 5.0: change its default logo, color scheme, footer, portlets; configure sliders and carousel; add social media icons and Newspaper look.
Black Bee Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Read this Plone tutorial to learn how to customize Black Bee, a fully responsive Plone theme. Black Bee theme is easy to personalize thanks to the custom header with a textured responsive carousel on the home page. The tutorial will also show you in detail how to integrate Social media to connect your business to all major networks/media as well as how to change theme logo, change the columns width, manage portlets etc.
BrendA Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Learn now to customize BrendA Plone Theme as a diazo Plone theme, and as a python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. In this tutorial you can find instructions on how to replace default logo and slogan, how to change top images on front and inner pages, and how to change columns width.
Brio Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial consists of several parts all aimed to teach you how to customize Brio as a diazo Plone theme, and as a python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. Here you will find info about how to replace theme logo, how to fill top areas with new content, how to change the width of columns, etc.
Berry Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: The following tutorial is made up of several parts that will teach you how to customize Berry as a responsive diazo theme for Plone 4.2 and 4.3. Just go through each part to learn how to replace theme logo, how to fill top areas with new content, how to change the width of columns, create your own carousel, set colours to reflect your business and convey the message, etc.
Business4 Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This tutorial was written to help you with Business4 Plone Theme customization as a diazo Plone theme, and as a python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. Here you will find explanations how to change theme logo and color scheme as well as top images.
Chameleon Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial is about customizing Chameleon as a diazo Plone theme, and as a python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. Consisting of several parts, this tutorial explains how to change theme logo, slogan, image, global navigation. Chameleon footer is changeable as well, like content portlets above the content area.
Chaste Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Read this Plone tutorial to learn how to customize Chaste, a new responsive Plone theme. Each part will explain a feature specific to Chaste: how to change theme logo, create a special carousel on the home page, change the columns width, add Terstimonials portlet, edit Social media in footer, etc.
Coral Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial includes clear explanation on how to make changes in Coral Plone Theme: how to change company logo, slogan, images etc.
EstateClassic Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: In this Plone tutorial you can learn how to customize EstateClassic Plone Theme: change its default logo, slogan, footer & portlets, configure horizontal drop-down global navigation settings, edit Telephone Number, and how to set up Site actions & Personal Tools.
Estate Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This tutorial shows you how to configure and customize Estate Plone Theme as diazo theme in Plone 4.1 and as Python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. Learn how to change theme logo, slogan, footer & portlets, configure global navigation and edit telephone number.
Flow Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This tutorial demonstrates how to customize Flow Plone Theme as diazo theme in Plone 4.1 and as Python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3. Having followed all steps of this Plone tutorial, you will learn how to replace default theme logo, how to fill top area with new content: new image or carousel banners.
GreenJet Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Demonstrates how to customize GreenJet Plone Theme as diazo theme in Plone 4.1 and as Python package in Plone 4.0 and Plone 3. See how to replace default logo, change top image, customize theme colors and modify columns width.
Pacific Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial can teach you how to modify Paific Responsive Plone Theme as diazo theme in Plone 4.1. It includes detailed instructions on how to replace default logo, how to change images on home page and inner site sections, how to change columns width etc.
SkyCream Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial can teach you how to modify SkyCream Plone Theme as diazo theme in Plone 4.1 and as Python package in Plone 4 and Plone 3.3. It includes detailed instructions on how to replace default logo, how to edit slogan, how to change images on home page and inner site sections, how to change columns width etc.
Text'n'Roll Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial will guide you through all the steps of Text'n'Roll fitting. It shows you how to make Tex'n'Roll responsive Plone theme suit your website by replacing default Plone logo and branding your website with your company's , changing the page layout, adding carousel for featured products and services.
Twirl Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to make changes in Twirl Plone Theme. It shows you how to customize Twirl Plone Skin to your needs (e.g. How to replace default company logo or how to change the width of columns).
Uni Plone Theme Tutorial: This Plone tutorial is about customizing Uni theme as a diazo Plone theme, and as a python package in Plone 4. Learn how to replace theme logo, how to change width of columns, and how to create theme-specific portlets.
Wink Plone Theme Customization Tutorial: Read this Plone tutorial to learn how to customize Wink, a fully responsive Plone theme. Each part will explain a feature specific to Wink: how to change theme logo, create a special carousel on the home page, change the columns width, edit Social media in footer, manage portlets etc.
How to Modify Plone Base Properties: This Plone tutorial was written to show you how to modify Plone base properties such as Plone's colour, font, logo and border defaults.
Plone Skin Dump Product: This Plone tutorial is helpful for Plone skins designers who have some experience with creating custom look and feel for Plone and want to release their work as file-system Plone Skin Product. Plone developers might find this product useful as well.

Plone Hosting - Quintagroup Plone Hosting Issues

How to Get Your SSH Login / Password: This Plone tutorial can help Quintagroup clients to get their SSH login/password for subsequent access to their Zope Instance.
How to Access Your Zope Instance with SSH Login / Password: This Plone tutorial explains how to access Zope Instance with SSH login/password in Windows and in Linux.
How to Add Email Accounts to Mail User Agents: This Plone tutorial's goal is to teach Quintagroup's clients, for whom we're doing DNS, to add email account in different Mail User Agents: Mozilla, Outlook, and Outlook Express.
How to Import/Export Data in Zope or Plone: Having followed all steps of this Plone tutorial, you will become aware of how to import/export data into different Zope or Plone sites using QuickImporter, SSH, WinSCP, and other tools.
How to back up/restore the databse in Plone 4.x: This Plone tutorial will teach you how to back up your database and blobstorage and perform their restore.
How to Make .zexp Import/Export of Plone Site: This Plone tutorial's goal is to show you a simple and effective way how to make .zexp export and import of Plone site.
How to Move Data.fs File from Local Machine to Remote Server: This tutorial teaches you how to simply move your Plone instance from the local machine to a remote server, hosted by Quintagroup, with the help of Data.fs file.
How to Access Your New Plone Site: This Plone tutorial was written to show the owners of newly-created Plone site, hosted by Quintagroup, how to get to their instance.

How to Create New Plone Site in Plone Hosting Instance Package: This Plone tutorial is helpful for Quintagroup's clients who ordered Plone Hosting Instance Package and want to create a new Plone site. It also shows how to map Plone site on a certain domain name.
How to Move Between Servers Using Data.fs File in Linux: This tutorial's goal is to show you a simple way how to move your Plone instance between servers with the help of data.fs file in Linux.
How to Move Between Servers Using Data.fs File in Windows: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to work with data.fs file in Windows for moving your Plone instance between servers.
How to connect to MySQL via SSH Tunnel in Linux: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to connect to localhost:3306 with MySQL Query Browser by building SSH tunnel in Linux.
How to connect to MySQL via SSH Tunnel in Windows: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to connect to localhost:3306 with MySQL Query Browser by building SSH tunnel in Windows.
How to set up direct connection to Zope instance protected by firewall via SSH Tunnel in Linux: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to connect to firewall-protected Zope instance by building SSH tunnel in Linux. The following instructions can also be applied to Mac OS X.
How to set up direct connection to Zope instance protected by firewall via SSH Tunnel in Windows: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to connect to firewall-protected Zope instance by building SSH tunnel in Windows.

Plone CMS & Plone Products

CMFSin Plone Product: This Plone tutorial teaches you how to configure CMFSin (a solution that enables one site to display the feed from other website in real time with no storage facilities) by ZMI, and also shows you how to enable CMFSin Plone configuration.
How to Install Plone Products in Windows: This Plone tutorial show you how to install old-style Plone products and new Plone packages on Plone 2, and Plone 3 in Windows.
How to Install Plone Products in Linux: This Plone tutorial was written to teach you how to install old-style Plone products and new Plone packages with the help of Krusader program in Linux.
How to Pack Zope Database: This step-by-step tutorial explains how to pack Data.fs Zope database file
How to Import .zexp Files into Your Plone Instance: This tutorial will teach you how to import .zexp files (form a skin product) into your Plone instance in case they failed to be imported during skin installation process.
How to Stop, Start or Restart Plone/Zope Instance: This tutorial describes three possible ways of dealing with your Zope instance, it shows how to stop, start or restart your Plone/Zope instance via SSH, ZMI and Plone Interface.
How to Access ZMI if Zope Admin Password is Lost: This Plone tutorial can be helpful for those Quintagroup's clients who lost their Zope access password and fail to get to Zope Management Interface of their instance.
How to Backup Data.fs and Plone Products: This Plone tutorial is helpful for those Quintagroup's clients who wants to backup their Plone site, namely ZODB database and Plone Products.
How to create dexterity based Plone site: This brief set of instructions on how to create new Dexterity-based Plone website.
Multilingual website with LinguaPlone: Plone Tutorial about work with LinguaPlone package. How to manage and maintain multilingual content that integrates seamlessly with Plone.
plone.app.multilingual as the future of Plone multilingual websites: This Plone tutorial describes usage of plone.app.multilingual package that allows translation of both Dexterity and Archetypes based content types.
How to set up Plone intranet/extranet workflow: Plone gives wide possibilities for customization of the workflow processes. This tutorial explains the work and maintenance of Plone intranet/extranet workflow
How to change CSS stylesheets in Diazo Plone Themes: Plone allows to customize styling and this tutorial covers customization of CSS stylesheets in Diazo Plone Themes.
How to create custom styles in TinyMCE: This tutorial teaches how to add some customizations to the TinyMCE styles or even create new ones using ploneCustom.css file or Diazo theming.
Working copy: check-out/check-in function for content in Plone: Tutorial on how to activate and use check-out/check-in feature with Plone content.

Quick-start guide to Plone: tutorials for Plone beginners

Plone Standard Content Types: Plone Tutorial - short overview of Plone standard content types: collection, event, file, folder, image, link, newsitem, and page.
Content Properites: Plone tutorial about content properties that can be set into Categorization, Dates, Ownership, and Settings tabs of all Plone content types.
How to add Folders: Plone Tutorial about adding Folders to Plone site. Main features of Folder content type, Previous/Next navigation for folders.
How to add Pages: Plone Tutorial about adding Pages to Plone site. Main features of Page content type, related items, presentation mode, and table of contents.
How to add News Items: Plone Tutorial about adding News items to Plone 4 site. Standard Plone News collection and News portlet.
How to add Events: Plone Tutorial about adding Events to Plone 4 site. Standard Plone Events collection, Events portlet and events listed in the calendar portlet.
How to add Files: Plone Tutorial about uploading Files to Plone site and adding them to other content types.
How to Use Display View In Plone: Display View Plone tutorial - is a nice opportunity for you to learn how to use display view in Plone. Overview of Plone standard options for presenting content.
How to create photogallery in Plone: Plone Tutorial about creating photogallery for displaying images and photos in Plone.
How to add download link for a file in Plone: Tutorial that helps to insert links to file content type in Plone.
How to build two-level navigation: Plone Tutorial that explains in few simple steps how to build two-level navigation in Plone.
Plone Navigation: Plone Tutorial on navigation types in Plone, their default view and customization.
User Roles and Permissions in Plone: Plone tutorial about basic user roles in Plone, including sharing option and assigning permissions.
How to Add a Collection Portlet in Plone: Plone tutorial on the crucial stages on the way towards creating a Collection Portlet.
How to Paste Content from Word to Plone (using TinyMCE editor): Plone tutorial on the ways to paste content from Word to Plone (using TinyMCE editor), possible problems ans suggested solutions.