The New plone.org Built on Plone 6

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The New Plone.org
Built on Plone 6
Rikupekka Oksanen
Plone Conference 2021 Online

Abstract
I will discuss Plone Communications and Marketing
Team’s plans to renew plone.org to Plone 6, the
latest and greatest of all Plone-releases.
This talk will contain a short history of plone.org, the
rise and fall of plone.com, and will give a glimpse to
a new future.
I will tell about the challenges with the current site
and the possibilities with the new Plone 6 one.
This is also a call to action, since we will need
people helping with migration, design, theming and
content work.
Practise what you preach and eat you own dogfood
- plone.org should be the pinnacle of what you'll get
with out-of-the-box Plone.
https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/the-new-plone-org-built-on-plone-6
Rikupekka Oksanen
marketing@plone.org

Plone
Communications
and Marketing
Team
● Érico Andrei
● Fulvio Casali
● Norbert Marrale
● Rikupekka Oksanen
● Sally Kleinfeldt
● William Fennie
● And special thanks to
T. Kim Nguyen
https://plone.org/community/communications-and-marketing

Some history of
plone.org
The ﬁrst plone.org
was published in 2002

Plone 1 in 2002

Plone 1 in 2002
November

Plone 2
in 2005

Plone 3

Plone.net served
as a marketing
oriented site, with
case studies,
service providers
and media
coverage

First Plone 4
based site 2009

Plone 4.3

The current
plone.org

Built on Plone 5,
published in 2016
Oriented towards the
community and
developers

News archive - all
content migrated
through different
plone.org versions
Since 2002

19 years!
Now that’s content
management for
you!

Plone.org
&
Plone.com
● An idea to separate marketing and
community sites
○ Like we did with plone.net
● Pros
○ Contains actual marketing material: case
studies, features, nice visual presentation
○ In the beginning plone.com also had
documentation, PLIPs etc. but since they
were moved
● Cons
○ Its was hard to manage plone.com content,
ironically
○ Updating two sites is two times the work
○ Creates confusion - should I use plone.com
or plone.org?
● Situation now: plone.com was removed
this September

Plone.org
&
Plone.com

Problems with
the current
plone.org
● Through-the-web editing partly
missing
○ → Hard to maintain some parts
● Some missing style elements
due to old customizations
● Diazo theme hard to develop
after a pause
● Does not represent Plone 6
and the 2020’s

Suggestion:
renew plone.org
1. Showcase what Plone is today -
Plone 6
2. Make it easy to use, easy to update
3. Use own migration tools - we learn
and improve those
4. Eat your own dogfood - use Plone 6
It will push development forward
5. Visual overhaul - to this decade
6. Content management

But can we do
all this?

We could try 1. Make a rough plan
2. Aim for a certain timeframe
3. Build a new testing site with Plone 6
4. Do Migration (in-place or other?)
5. Create a design and images (icons,
banner and such)
6. Do content work (new main section
content)
7. Think of navigation
8. Test it on a preview site
9. Organize sprints (scheduled for
upcoming months)
10. Plan for version updates in sync
with Plone 6 versions

Facelift and content
work 2020-2021
● Reorganized news and other
content, tagging
● Image improvements, cropping
● Theming improvements
● What is Plone -section and
Plone 6 info added
● Content and information
architecture ﬁgured out
● -> We know now what works on
the site and what especially
needs improving

Planning
● Make a rough plan
● Aim for a certain timeframe
● How to migrate
● How to create a test site
● How to keep site up to date
with new Plone versions
● Publish and discuss the plan,
iterate
Let’s discuss!

What to
highlight?
● What is Plone
● Plone (6) features
● How to get Plone
● Lovely community & how to
get involved
● News and events
● Documentation (linked)
● Foundation
● (teams, history)
● Something else?
Let’s discuss!

Target
audiences
● Plone community
○ Current users and developers
● New potential users
○ End users
○ Integrator/decision maker
● New developers
○ From JS, Python world
● Other? Social media inﬂuencers?
Let’s discuss!

The new
plone.org
Is Plone 6

Plone 6
The features, stability, scalability, and
best-in-class security of an enterprise CMS,
combined with a modern, easy-to-use, and
powerful front end based on state-of-the art web
technologies.
Highlight and demonstrate this on plone.org
Plone 6 presentation - check out Timo
Stollenwerk’s Keynote
https://plone.org/what-is-plone/plone/plone-6/

Plone.org should
be vanilla Plone 6
● Reduces need for special design
and theme customization
● Plone 6 already has lots of great
add-ons
● “Plone 6 does all this” - use
out-of-the-box features and
available add ons
● Stay true to what Plone 6 offers
● It has worked well before -
plone.org is Plone

Plone.org 20 years ago

What is plone
User feedback
Clear
navigation
News
Roadmap
Get Plone
Vanilla Plone

Plone 6 today

Design and
style
● Vanilla Plone 6, but with nice
content design
○ Huge banner image?
○ Pretty icons for features?
○ Nice CSS-effects, transitions?
○ What will frontpage hold?
We need
help with
design and
graphics

Testing site
● We will need a staging/testing
site where we can play safely
and create new content
Help us
putting up a
new site!

Migration
● Plone.org contains working
content since 2002
● We want to keep that as a living
testament to Plone’s ability as
a content management system
● Also a learning experience
We are looking
for help with
migration

Content work
● Front page
● Main section pages using Volto
blocks
● Highlight Plone features and use
cases
● Going through migrated content
● We are looking for help with Plone
6 screencasts
● The kids today like videos
We are also
looking for help
with contents

Sprints
● We will schedule upcoming
online sprints
● Monthly sprints, starting from
early December, then January
and so on
● Plone Conference sprint next
weekend!

Summary ● Goal: To renew plone.org in 2022
● Using Plone 6 out-of-the-box
● Help wanted

Call to action
● Discussion about the plan
● Discussion about Plone.org
contents and audiences
● Migration info/suggestions
● Putting up a testing site and CI
● Help with visuals and images
● Help with content work
● And more :)

Next steps
Communication and marketing
team will provide
● Info page to sum up the vision
and plan
● Community post of the same
information
● Shared planning document
● Scheduled sprints
● Discussion channel with join
link
● Marketing team contact info
● Github issues list
● How to contribute -info
● Open Space discussion
https://plone.org/roadmap/
plone-org-renewal-2022

Join the open
space discussion!
Let’s discuss about this on Friday
29th Open Spaces!

Thank you!
https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/the-new-plone-org-built-on-plone-6
https://plone.org/roadmap/plone-org-renewal-2022

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