Develop Plone Add ons

To develop an add-on, you need a package to put your code in, plus ways to make it interact with Plone itself and the user. And a way to release your package to your audience.

In short:

Create a package

With the help of Mr.Bob and templates for plone, that is quickly done:

• Introduction
• Options
• Features
• Compatibility
• Installation
  • Use in a buildout
  • Installation in a virtualenv

Deprecated since version may_2015: Using Paster/Zopeskel is possible, but deprecated

Develop with Dexterity

Dexterity is covered in detail in the Dexterity Developer Manual, which includes an extensive tutorial on setting up a Dexterity development environment.

Add your package to buildout

Edit your buildout.cfg file to add the package to your egg list and your develop list. Run buildout.

Releasing your package

• Releasing an addon
  • Setup necessary packages
  • Releasing a package

Working with Javascript

• Javascript
  • Introduction
  • Plone default Javascript libraries
  • Creating Javascripts for Plone
  • Executing Javascript code on page load
  • Registering javascripts to portal_javascripts
  • Popup overlays and forms
  • Messages and translation
  • Passing dynamic settings to Javascripts
  • Generating Javascript dynamically
  • Upgrading jQuery
  • Having multiple jQuery versions (noConflict)
  • Loading Javascript files for certain edit views only (to be used with widgets)
  • Converting page links to pop-up windows
  • AJAX-y view loading
  • Checking if document is in WYSIWYG edit mode
  • Image hovers
  • Disabling KSS
• Javascript coding conventions
  • Introduction
  • Progressive Enhancement
  • Unobtrusive JavaScript
  • Coding Standards
  • Platform Testing
  • Testing
• AJAX
  • Introduction
  • JSON views and loading data via AJAX
  • Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) proxy view
  • Speeding up AJAX loaded content HTML

Background

• Component architecture
  • Introduction

• Schema-driven forms
  • Introduction
  • Creating a simple form
  • Customising form behaviour
  • Form types
  • Customising form presentation
  • Further reading

Example

• Hello World Tutorial
  • Introduction
  • Build development environment
  • Extend Plone
  • Ideas for improvement

Also make sure to check out the Training material