Plone Gear.

Warning

Plone Gear work with Plone 2.0.4

Russian README

Author: Mikhail Kashkin (Key Solutions), comments send to m-at-keysolutions.ru.

Plone Gear aim for novice web developers to make easer switch to Plone from plain html or other CMS. Plone Gear allow you full divide front site and Plone as backend. You can use it in this cases:

• You have plain html site and you want use powerful Plone as CMS.
• You want hide Plone design from visitors.
• You haven't time to learn how work Plone but want to use it NOW! and you want to start learn Plone

What diferences Plone Gear from Plone?

For visitors

Plone Gear allow hide Plone design and use your custom skins.

For site editor

Site editor can use all power of Plone.

For developer

novice developer must customize few templates to make new site. Also developers can reduce capacity by use two sets of defines (in global_defines and front_defines).

For hosting providers

Plone Gear have some speedups in Plone pages (may be its be merged to Plone?). Front pages can use litle and fast templates..

Under the hood

Sites with Plone Gear use two templates, main_template for Plone backend and site_template to frontend. To customize design you must edit only site_template page.

For folder_contents Plone Gear fast link to editContext and doesn't compute view actions for every object.

Editor work only in backend, Plone Gear change default behavior of editor scripts and after save return to edit action (not to view as in default Plone).

How to get

For more information and download visit product page http://keysolutions.ru/Products/PloneGear/ .

Also visit RuGear page for patch for national symbols in Structured Text with Unicode (you don't need it if use Plone Gear, or switch off it in PloneGear/config.py if you want use RuGear as separate product).

Warning: product is published in alfa stage for discuss and your comments.