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Welcome to The Plone Connection, a newsletter for Plonistas by Plonistas. Plone is a highly secure open source Content Management System (CMS) built on Python. Six Feet Up is the largest Plone consultancy in the USA.

Plone News 📰

The Plone Security Team has released fixes for image_view_fullscreen: cache poisoning (via Plone Foundation)
Plone 6.0.0a2 is in alpha release (via Plone Foundation)

Top Stories 📣

Migrating 30,000+ Pages from Zope to Plone

Migrating a site is always a challenging task, but when you have dozens of subsites — upwards of 30,000 pages! — with specific brand standards and custom user functionality, the challenge becomes mammoth. How did the Purdue University College of Engineering use Plone to give content editors freedom to create without being bogged down by code and provide the customizations needed without making the system overly complex for end users? Read the case study.

How to Use Google Tag Manager on Your Plone Site

Want to learn more about what your website visitors are interested in reading — without intruding on a user’s experience or gathering sensitive information? Plone makes it easy to add analytics snippets to your website. Learn how to set up Google Tag Manager (including Scroll Depth and Element Visibility) to help your company gather valuable insight.

Top 7: Plone Conference 2021 Talks Released

The Sixies are still reminiscing about all the fun we had at Plone Conference 2021. Did you know? More than 50 videos — including expert talks and trainings about Plone, Zope, Volto, Guillotina and Python — have been shared on Plone’s YouTube channel. While it was incredibly hard to narrow them down, check out Six Feet Up's Top 7 Talks.

Season 2, Episode 2 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features Sean Kelly — a software engineer, NASA scientist, JPL consultant, Plone committer, Python hacker and Apache Software Foundation member. Listen and subscribe!

Under the Plone Hood 🛠

State of the Plone Community

What makes the Plone so successful? While it's arguably the best CMS, it's the community who gathers for conferences and rallies for sprints that makes Plone truly special. During her Plone Conference 2021 presentation, the Plone Foundation President and Six Feet Up Senior Python Developer — Chrissy Wainwright — takes a trip down memory lane, sharing photos from past conferences and giving attendees all the feels. Keep sharing your favorite #plonememories on social media!

Plone Community Questions 😲

"What does Plone 6 — and its new Volto React frontend — make possible for developers and integrators?"
Plone 6 is in alpha release and is expected to be officially released this summer. The biggest change? Plone 6 will be available with two frontends (user interfaces).

The existing frontend (now being referred to as “Classic”) will continue to be available, but it will be upgraded. The “Classic” frontend will feature a host of updates including Bootstrap 5.1, ECMAScript 6 (ES6), WebPack 5, and an improved default Barceloneta LTS theme.

The new React (JavaScript) frontend, named “Volto,” is lightning quick, giving users near-instantaneous response times. Developers and integrators will be able to incorporate user interface components from the rich React ecosystem. Plus, frontend development, customization and theming will be modernized and greatly simplified.

Using the updated `pip` installation method and community-maintained Docker images, Plone deployments will be easier and more reliable.

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Upcoming Events in the Plone World

Python Web Conference: March 21-25 (Online)

Join Plonistas from around the globe for the 4th annual Python Web Conference (#PWC2022), the most in-depth Python conference for web developers. The 5-day conference will feature 90 speakers; 80 talks and 5 tutorials across 6 tracks; and 400+ attendees from 40+ countries. The highly engaging format includes interactive tech talks; lightning talks; and end-of-day socials like origami, online gaming, mindfulness exercises and virtual cocktails/mocktails to name a few. Plus, there will be countless opportunities for Plonistas — and our fellow Pythonistas — to mingle, network and have fun! Explore the talks and star-studded speaker lineup with Plone presentations by Erico Andrei and Annette Lewis.

GET TICKETS: https://ti.to/six-feet-up/python-web-conf-2022

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