A community-curated list of awesome Plone addons, documentation, use-cases and other useful resources. From developers for developers.

If you want to know if there is already a package for Plone that fits your needs, searching it on github or pypi could be a real pain. There is a plenty of packages, but it's hard to understand which one could be a good solution or not.

This list is intended to fill that gap, and create a shared knowledge about common products and techniques.

We will cover only products that works with the latest major version of Plone (5).

• Layout
• Themes
• Content-types
• Authentication
• Utilities
• Sysadmin
• Articles
• Official resources

Products and resources that helps developers and users to manage site layouts.

• Site/pages layout managers

  • plone.app.mosaic - Powerful editor that allows users to compose the content of a page with different blocks.
  • redturtle.tiles.management - A tiles management system, easier than plone.app.mosaic (doesn't allow to compose pages on a grid system). Useful for example for one-column pages.
  • collective.editablemenu - A customizable dropdown menu.

• Tiles

  • plone.app.standardtiles - A set of standard tiles used by Mosaic, but can be used from any other tile manager.
  • collective.tiles.advancedstatic - A tile that shows html text (similar to the text portlet), with some additional configuration like the possibility to add custom css style classes.
  • collective.tiles.collection - A tile that shows a set of collection results with possibility to choose (and develop) custom layouts.

• Views and utils

  • collective.slick - Add slick carousel to Plone resources.
  • redturtle.patterns.slider - A pattern based on Plone Mockup that enable a slick slider on a selected div.
  • redturtle.gallery - adds a gallery view with a carousel made with slick.

A set of themes developed by the community and ready-to-use.

...work in progress

Plugins that add additional useful content-types.

• wildcard.media - Provides audio and video content types and behaviors.

A list of authentication plugins, to integrate Plone with external user sources.

• Products.PloneLDAP - Connect Plone to LDAP/ActiveDirectory.
• pas.plugins.authomatic - Authomatic OAuth1/OAuth2/OpenID Login Integration with Plone.
• pas.plugins.velruse - Allow users to login using social networks through Velruse.

Plugins that add some useful functionalities

• plone.restapi - RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.

• plone.app.imagecropping - Crops Images in Plone manually using cropper JS library.

• collective.outputfilters.enhancelinks - outputfilter that add mimetype icon and filesize to file/images linked in TinyMCE fields.

• collective.lazysizes - Integration of lazysizes, a lightweight lazy loader, into Plone.

• collective.easyform - TTW form builder based on Dexterity.

• collective.limitfilesizepanel - Configure the size limit of files and images fields through a control panel.

• collective.analyticspanel - Add more control over the inclusion of JavaScript analytics code of your Plone site with a configurable control panel.

A series of recipes/resources for running Plone and other services

• plone buildout - An example of complete buildout for running Plone with different profiles for development, staging and production.
• varnish buildout - An example of complete and customizable buildout for running a Varnish (cache HTTP reverse proxy) instance behind Plone.
• haproxy buildout - An example of complete and customizable buildout for running an haproxy (load balancer) instance behind Plone.
• deployments.buildout.production - A buildout template that pulls in supervisor to manage different services like varnis, haproxy and Plone instances.

A list of articles or blogposts with interesting use-cases or informations.

• Internationalization in Plone 3.3 and 4.0 - The bible of translations in Plone by Maurits van Rees.
• How to make your Plone add-on products uninstall cleanly - A practical guide about Plone install and uninstall tools by Luca Fabbri.

Because Plone has also a lot of good official resources where find infos

• plone.org - Official website.
• community.plone.org - Official community forum.
• docs.plone.org - Official documentation for developers/integrators.
• plone.api - Documentation for plone.api.
• slack channel - Official slack channel.
• gitter channel - Official gitter channel.
• #plone irc channel.