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Covers Plone basics from a site administrator's perspective

Learn how to use Buildout to develop, deploy, and maintain a modern Plone site

Enhance the functionality and appearance of your web site by using third-party add-ons

Features many useful Buildout recipes from the Python Package Index

Written by Alex Clark, an expert Plone site administrator and member of the plone.org infrastructure team

Description

In the past few years, we have seen some dramatic changes in the way Plone sites are being developed, deployed, and maintained. As a result, developing and deploying sites, changing their default settings, and performing day to day maintenance tasks can be a challenge. This book covers site administration tasks, from setting up a development instance, to optimizing a deployed production site, and more. It demonstrates how-to perform these tasks in a comprehensive way, and walks the user through the necessary steps to achieve results.We have divided the subject of Plone site administration into three categories: development, deployment, and maintenance. We begin by explaining how a Plone site is built, and how to start using it through the web. Next, we add features by installing add-on products, focusing on themes, blogging, and other common enhancements. After the basics of developing and deploying a Plone site are covered, the book covers the basics of maintaining it.Further, throughout the book we preview some new technologies related to Plone site administration, available now as add-ons to the current Plone release. Finally, we will cover a variety of techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for site administrators, webmasters, or content editors managing a site with Plone. These users will not be new to Plone itself, but they will be new to the site administration tasks. The reader is also expected to know basic Python programming. This book caters to these users, and builds their confidence by helping them to get their Plone sites up, running, and customized with minimal peripheral knowledge.

What you will learn

The basics of Plone site administration

Installing Python, Distribute, Buildout, PIP, Plone, and more

Changing the appearance of your Plone site with freely available, professional-looking themes

Automating maintenance tasks to keep your site running smoothly with less effort

Securing, backing up, and monitoring your Plone site

Maximizing the performance of your Plone site by applying various site optimization techniques

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Marcos F. Romero Sep 02, 2010

I've just finished reading Plone 3.3 Site Administration by Alex Clark, an eagerly awaited book of Packt Publishing, and I'm glad to say that it really exceded my expectations.After having read the first two chapters with excelent procedures for installing Python, basic packages, a C compiler and finally Plone, I got a little confused when I faced some non administration-related sections like "Customizing site navigation", "Adding new content types" and the "Appearence" chapter. These sections, with buildout specific examples though, were a little off topic in my humblest opinion.Anyway, after those pages, I dived into *the* Plone Administration reference book I was seeking:* In detail LDAP integration (chapter 4)* Essential maintenance tasks like backing-up, packing and log-rotating (chapter 5)* Excelent step-by-step recipes to configure several alternatives to de facto industry standard web servers, cache servers and load balancers (chapter 6)* Straightforward and very useful security tips (chapter 7)I particularly liked the way the author summarizes all the buildout configuration options exposed across the whole book in "Analyzing the contents of our buildout", chapter 8.It's true that most of the topics coverd in the book can be found in other already published books or online references, but what technical book is not?As I said above, Plone 3.3. Site Administration is, for me, the Plone Administration reference that was missing and thankfuly is already with us!

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Israel Saeta Perez Sep 07, 2010

Packt Plone books strike again! Written by well-known Alex Clark and technically reviewed by the re-incident Steve McMahon, Plone 3.3 Site Administration comes to my e-shelf. Being Alex the most dedicated plone.org administrator, you can't expect him to be wrong at how to manage a Plone site. :)While the book target audience is claimed to be everyone interested in becoming more familiar with how to professionally manage Plone sites, I've found most of the book very, very basic. If you know how to use a terminal, a text editor and a browser, you're likely not going to have many problems following the detailed tiny-step-by-tiny-step instructions provided in the book. However, the reader might feel sometimes like a script-kiddie, executing commands and adding sections to his/her buildout without really understanding fully what he/she's doing (and why) and thus unable to confidently change the configuration. This is specially true in the last chapters of the book.The writing style is always casual and easy. Alex gets directly to the point without much bla-bla. The downside is that Alex sometimes uses some concepts (like Five, FSDVs or CMF) in the book without previous introduction or pointers to further documentation. But of course, you can always rely on Google. For some questions the reader might have, Alex has opted for a short-answer/medium-answer/long-answer schema that, while the division is not always perfect, helps the reader to decide how in deep does he/she want to go.The book is a gentle introduction to buildout and product installation (including basic theming) for absolute beginners, and that's what the first half of the book is all about, but I had expected a longer treatment of load balancing schemes, cache proxies and settings for optimal performance, load testing, multimedia streaming, development-production products and buildout deployment, apache/nginx configuration for Plone, multiple ZODB mount-points and ZEO configuration, among others. These are the kind of things I would expect an advanced Plone site administrator to master, and what we need proper, comprehensive documentation for.Summing up, if you fall inside the target audience outlined in the paragraph above, you're going to like this book. If you're looking for more hard-core site administration stuff, check out Planet Plone and other online docs.

Kindle Customer Aug 17, 2010

This book is meant for Plone Administrators, and it has some good material for this audience. It guides the reader through Plone 3 setup, and offers a great many tips on using buildout, the preferred way to add functionality to Plone. This isn't a great book for development, though-- there's almost nothing here dealing with software development. In a great many places, there are explanations about how to install some important feature like a cache agent-- but very little explanation about what a cache agent is. It's all about changing your Plone site through configuration. There are plenty of valuable tips on appearance (themes), securing the site, caching mechanisms, log rotation, etc. It reads like the working notes of a well-practiced administrator. If Plone administration is your job, you'll probably like this book.

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