How-tos

Using Titles and Short Names Properly

This How-to gives you a guideline for naming pages or other content types

Adding a News Item

How to add a news item to your site

Creating a Bookmark, or Anchor Link

Find out how to link down to a specific part of a page, using a little HTML

Creating a Horizontal Line on Your Webpage

A very simple how-to that uses a tiny bit of HTML

Uploading an Image into Plone

Learn how to get images from your computer into Plone

Adding New Pages

learn how to add a new webpage

Setting up a Submit and Review Process

Plone has a great built-in review process workflow. Learn the fundamentals here.

How to Make Links Open in a New Window

When you're linking to a page on a separate website, it's nice to have it open in a new window so you don't lose people to that site. Learn how to control that with a touch of HTML.

Changing the list of Event Types you can choose from

Need to change the default list of event types? Read this brief how-to.

Creating a New User

Learn the steps to create a new user for your site

Using Live Search to Find Content Quickly

Learn all about what live search is and how to use it

Setting a Default, or Landing Page

Here's how you select a content item as the default document in a folder

Set Up and Manage Content in Private Folder

This describes how to set up a Private Folder in a Plone web site, and how to manage the content of the private folder.

Controlling User's Editing Capabilities for Pages and Folders

This describes how to give a user of your site editing privileges of particular folders or pages.

Limiting the Content Types a Folder Can Contain

In certain scenarios you may wish to restrict the type of content that can be added to a folder. Learn how to change those settings in this how-to.

Connecting to Plone via FTP

How to use FileZilla to make an FTP connection to Plone.

How to Setup an External Editor

If you're interested in using an external editor to create pages in Plone, see this how-to. Note: the information covered here is for users who are comfortable working outside the graphical interface of Plone

Using the Display Tab

Learn all about the different folder views, and how to choose a default page for a folder.

Changing your password

This how-to shows the steps required to change your own password in your Plone site.

Creating An Event

This explains how to add a new event to your Plone site.

Adding keywords

Associating your content with keywords, also known as 'tagging' your content

Creating Groups

Learn the steps to create new Groups on your Plone site

Allowing Commenting on a Page

This explains the discussion options for a page's content.

Using Undo

This explains how to use Plone's Undo feature, in the Kupu editor as well as globally.

Using Flickr Slideshows in Plone

Flickr is a great tool for organizing and managing your photos. Learn how to insert a Flickr slideshow into your Plone site.

Search Tips

This Howto describes more in depth the search features in a Plone site. It includes information about the syntax you can use in a site for more advanced features (available from the basic search window).

How can I change a content item to a private, published, or public draft state?

Instructions for changing the publishing state of a content item in one of two ways.

Adding Raw HTML From External Sources

Learn how to add code from other websites that allow you to imbed videos, pictures, or other media on your website.

Creating a Simple Photo Gallery

This how-to will show you a very simple way to create a photo gallery of your images. You can create multiple galleries to show off all of your great photography!

Using Anchors

Let's say you have a page that needs to be very long. You've got lots of content and you want to display it all on one page. To make things easier for your site visitors, you want to create links that will take them directly to the various sections of the page instead of having to scroll up and down manually. This is where anchors come in. This how-to relates only to Kupu version 1.4.

How to Create Captions for Images

Learn how to automatically create captions for your images! This long waited functionality is now available to users of Kupu 1.4 and up.

How to Prevent Your Links from Breaking

In version of Kupu 1.4 and up, there is a function called "Link using UIDs" that will keep links from breaking, should you move the location of page or other content item.

How to Embed a YouTube Video

Want a video on your website? Read this how-to and learn the basics of embedding video.

How to Resize Images

Some versions of Plone come with an image resize function accessible when you insert an image on a page. Learn how to use this simple, but powerful feature.

Finding Broken Links

This how-to explains a method for discovering where broken internal links are.

How to Create New Sections of Your Site

This how-to explains methods for creating new sections for your Plone-powered website. Building new sections is integral to developing the site over time, and is essential knowledge for general management of the website.

Collection Portlets

How to create a Collection Portlet

Static Text Portlets

How to use a Static Portlet

How to Copy Content from Microsoft Word into Plone

There are a few things to know about copying and pasting content from Word into Plone to get the best results.