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A User's Guide to Plone

This book helps new and experienced Plone users to become more productive. A Users's Guide to Plone takes an in-depth look at the basic steps for creating and publishing content; it also provides reference material about content types, workflows, user security and strategies for organizing a site.

Plone 4 User Guide The latest edition, A User's Guide to Plone 4, is 225+ pages, has undergone a major rewrite and includes new material on topics such as: using the TinyMCE editor, using Plone for wikis and making content easy to find. Unlike other Plone books, this volume focuses on how to use "out of the box" features preinstalled with any default Plone installation. It is written especially for those who use Plone on a daily basis to write and approve content.

A User's Guide to Plone 4 addresses questions like:

  • What is the best way to paste content with the editor?
  • How do you give another user the right to edit your content?
  • How do you enable comments?
  • What are collections and how do you make one?
  • What are workflows and how are they used?
  • How do you use "working copies" to edit already published items?
  • How do you choose the appropriate display for a folder?
  • How can you use portlets to enhance site navigation?

Availability

Amazon Icon PRINT versions for $25 each at Amazon.com:  Plone 3   |   Plone 2
        - Plone 4 "print" availability in mid-September 2010

pdf.jpg PDF versions for Plone:  4.0 ($10)   |   3.1*   |   3.0*   |   2.1*
       German German translations for Plone:  3.1*   |   3.0*   |   2.1*   |   2.0*

The 3.x and 2.x PDF versions of the book ( marked with an asterisk * ) are FREE for non-commercial use.  As Plone has significantly expanded and evolved since inception, so has the cost to update and maintain the user guide.  To assist with the continual rise in costs, starting with Plone 4, PDF versions are available for $10 per copy. 

History

Enfold Systems has partnered with the original authors, gocept gmbh & co. kg, since 2006 to make the Plone user guide available for print in the United States.  In August 2009,  Enfold Systems and Gocept entered into an agreement to enable Enfold to exclusively update, maintain and distribute these books for current and future releases of Plone.  Please direct any inquires to userguide@enfoldsystems.com.