General Plone How Tos

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.

Allowing Commenting on a Page

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

Changing the list of Event Types you can choose from

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

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.

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

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!

Creating An Event

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

Setting a Default, or Landing Page

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

Static Text Portlets

How to use a Static Portlet

Uploading an Image into Plone

Learn how to get images from your computer into Plone

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.

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