Unsurprisingly, specifying a z3c.autoinclude entry point in your Plone product egg means your ZCML gets automatically included. That’s great because it means you don’t have to specify your product under the ZCML section of your instance in buildout. One thing that isn’t so obvious (it’s not mentioned that I can see on plone.org) is that if your package is marked for ZCML autoinclude, then Plone will automatically load an overrides.zcml file in your product. (more…)

Note: see this post for up-to-date details.

Essentially, the issue is that Deliverance doesn’t theme (and rightly so) the Kupu editor within Plone and hence any styles applied to normal pages by Deliverance don’t show up.  (more…)

Rightio!  So we’ve got Plone 4.0a2 installed and up and running.  Boy, she looks sweet:

Plone's new theme

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It’s been a little bit of time since my last post, and who can blame me with my site having been down for almost 2 full days over the last week!  I’m not paying that much for the webspace, thankfully, but if I was, I’d be seeing red over it.  Apparently some patch for MySQL broke everything; imagine how it looked to see my site with a ’500 internal error’ plastered all over it and not being able to access my cPanel.  Ugh.

Anyway, everything’s back again, assuming that you can see this.  Okay?  Great!

Today’s conundrum presented itself very, very strangely.  People couldn’t change their password in Plone (which effectively breaks registration if a user has to select a password).  The Plone site we have was being themed by Deliverance. A colleague and I were taking a look at this earlier in the week and from everything that we could see, the request traffic and variables were being sent onto Plone correctly from Deliverance. That said, the issue persisted. (more…)

Always one for being on and beyond the bleeding edge of new technology, I’ve (with the help of colleagues) been setting up a new technology for applying themes to web sites.  In particular, I’m applying Deliverance to Plone and whilst I’m not the first one to venture out into the wilderness this way, I’ve got to be thinking that I could be one of the few people documenting their experience.  Ah, but where to begin? (more…)