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<h1 id="awesome-plone-awesome">Awesome Plone <a
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<p>A community-curated list of <em>awesome</em> Plone add-ons.</p>
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<p><a href="https://plone.org">Plone</a> is a open source CMS written in
Python with a focus on functionality, customizability and security out
of the box.</p>
<p>There are over <a
href="https://pypi.org/search/?q=&amp;o=&amp;c=Framework+%3A%3A+Plone">3000
add-ons for Plone on pypi</a> and over 1500 repositories in the <a
href="https://github.com/collective/">collective</a>. If you want to
know if there is already a add-on for Plone that fits your needs,
searching for it on GitHub or pypi can be hard. It’s hard to understand
which one could be a good solution or not.</p>
<p>This list is intended to fill that gap, and create a shared knowledge
about common products and techniques.</p>
<p>For a filterable list of addons aggreating all Plone related packages
from PyPi see https://pag.derico.tech.</p>
<p>This list only covers add-ons that work with the latest major
versions of Plone (currently 5.2 and 6) and only those that support
Python 3.</p>
<p>Plone 6 comes with a new default frontend called Volto, which is
written in React and uses <code>plone.restapi</code> to communicate with
Plone. Volto is very extendable in itself. Checkout the <a
href="https://github.com/collective/awesome-volto">awesome-volto
list</a> for add-ons to Volto.</p>
<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#content-and-utilities-for-content">Content and utilities
for content</a></li>
<li><a href="#searching-and-categorizing">Searching and
Categorizing</a></li>
<li><a href="#layout">Layout</a></li>
<li><a href="#tiles">Tiles</a></li>
<li><a href="#events">Events</a></li>
<li><a href="#forms">Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="#multilingual">Multilingual</a></li>
<li><a href="#media">Media</a></li>
<li><a href="#security">Security</a></li>
<li><a href="#seo">SEO</a></li>
<li><a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li>
<li><a href="#shop">Shop</a></li>
<li><a href="#export-import-and-migrations">Export, Import and
Migrations</a></li>
<li><a href="#themes">Themes</a></li>
<li><a href="#develop">Develop</a></li>
<li><a href="#sysadmin">Sysadmin</a></li>
<li><a href="#finding-more-add-ons">Finding more add-ons</a></li>
<li><a href="#official-resources">Official resources</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="content-and-utilities-for-content">Content and utilities for
content</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that provide content-types or additional functionality
for content</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.a11ycheck">collective.a11ycheck</a>
- Reports accessibility issues to your site editors when a page is
saved.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.bbcodesnippets">collective.bbcodesnippets</a>
- Provides generic and extensible BBCode markup integration for
Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.consent">collective.consent</a>
- Ask users for consent to different topics, before they can
continue.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.dexteritytextindexer">collective.dexteritytextindexer</a>
- Dynamic SearchableText index for dexterity content types. For Plone 6
this was merged into Plone core.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.documentgenerator">collective.documentgenerator</a>
- Generate Documents (.odt, .pdf, .doc) from content based on appy
framework (https://appyframe.work/) and OpenOffice/LibreOffice.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.documentviewer">collective.documentviewer</a>
- Very nice document viewer that integrates DocumentCloud viewer and PDF
processing into Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.easyformplugin.createdx">collective.easyformplugin.createdx</a>
- Creates Plone content objects from EasyForm submissions.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.embeddedpage">collective.embeddedpage</a>
- A content type to embed remote HTML pages in Plone Classic and
Volto.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.folderishtraverse">collective.folderishtraverse</a>
- Traverse to first item in folder.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.folderishtypes">collective.folderishtypes</a>
- Provides the types “Folderish Event”, “Folderish News Item” and
“Folderish Document” as replacements for default types. Those types are
able to hold any other content, like a Folder.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.geolocationbehavior">collective.geolocationbehavior</a>
- Geotagging for Plone content using LeafletJS.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.glossary">collective.glossary</a>
- Content type to define a glossary and its terms.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.immediatecreate">collective.immediatecreate</a>
- Create content immediatly and skip the add form.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.lineage">collective.lineage</a>
- Subsites: Turns subfolders of a Plone site to appear as autonomous
Plone sites. There is also a whole ecosystem off addons specific to
subsites.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.mailchimp">collective.mailchimp</a>
- MailChimp newsletter integration for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.mirror">collective.mirror</a>
- A content type that mirrors the content of any other container.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.mustread">collective.mustread</a>
- Tracking user views on content that are marked as must-read.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.remoteproxy">collective.remoteproxy</a>
- Proxy for remote content. All remote URLs for which a local proxy was
created are replaced in the resulting content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.restrictportlets">collective.restrictportlets</a>
- Allows you to restrict the available portlets that non-Managers can
add.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.richdescription">collective.richdescription</a>
- Formatable description field for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.workspace">collective.workspace</a>
- Easily manage ‘membership’ in specific areas of a Plone Site. It
allows to grant people access to areas of content using a membership
group rather than local roles for each user, and to delegate control
over that group to people who don’t have access to the site-wide
user/group control panel.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/dexterity.membrane">dexterity.membrane</a>
- Enables content to be used as users and groups in Plone sites.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.pdfexport">plone.pdfexport</a> -
Generic PDF export functionality for Plone content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/Products.EasyNewsletter">Products.EasyNewsletter</a>
- Powerful newsletter/mailing product for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/zopyx/zopyx.ipsumplone">zopyx.ipsumplone</a> -
Creates demo content and demo images for Plone.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="searching-and-categorizing">Searching and Categorizing</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/cioppino.twothumbs">cioppino.twothumbs</a>
- Rate content using up- and down-thumbs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.bookmarks">collective.bookmarks</a>
- Bookmarks/ favorites/ wish-list for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.collectionfilter">collective.collectionfilter</a>
- Faceted navigation filter for collection or contentlisting tiles.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.elasticsearch">collective.elasticsearch</a>
- Use ElasticSearch as the search backend for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.elastic.plone">collective.elastic.plone</a>
- ElasticSearch Integration for Plone content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.searchandreplace">collective.searchandreplace</a>
- Find and replace text in Plone content objects.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.solr">collective.solr</a>
- Solr search engine integration for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.taxonomy">collective.taxonomy</a>
- Create, edit and use hierarchical taxonomies to categorize
content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/eea.facetednavigation">eea.facetednavigation</a>
- Very powerful interface to improve search without programming skills.
Configuration is done through-the-web and lets you gradually select and
explore different facets (metadata/properties) of the content and narrow
down you search quickly and dynamically.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/Products.PloneKeywordManager">Products.PloneKeywordManager</a>
- Change, merge and delete keywords/tags/subjects).</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/zopyx/zopyx.typesense">zopyx.typesense</a> -
Plone integration with the external Typesense search server
(open-source). This is an alternative to collective.solr or
Elasticsearch.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="layout">Layout</h2>
<p><em>Products and resources that help developers and users to create
and manage site layouts.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.app.mosaic">plone.app.mosaic</a> -
Powerful and extendable editor that allows users to compose the content
of a page with different tiles.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.cover">collective.cover</a>
- Cover allows the creation of elaborate covers built around a
drag-and-drop interface. Uses the same blocks/tiles ecosystem as
plone.app.mosaic but a different approach to editing.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.contentsections">collective.contentsections</a>
- Offers a block approach for Plone 6 Classic based entirely on
Dexterity content types.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="tiles">Tiles</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that extend the layout editor plone.app.mosaic.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.app.standardtiles">plone.app.standardtiles</a>
- A set of standard tiles used by Mosaic, but can be used from any other
tile manager.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.tiles.carousel">collective.tiles.carousel</a>
- A slider tile for plone.app.mosaic based on the carousel component of
Bootstrap 5.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.tiles.advancedstatic">collective.tiles.advancedstatic</a>
- A tile that shows html text (similar to the static text portlet), with
some additional configuration like the possibility to add custom css
classes.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.tiles.collection">collective.tiles.collection</a>
- A tile that shows a set of collection results with possibility to
choose (and develop) custom layouts.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="events">Events</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that handle events and calendars.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.easyformplugin.registration">collective.easyformplugin.registration</a>
- Add a behavior to collective.easyform to manage registration forms for
events.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.fullcalendar">collective.fullcalendar</a>
- Display events in a nice calendar UI using
https://fullcalendar.io.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.venue">collective.venue</a>
- Venue type with geolocation support for use with events or any other
location specific content.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="forms">Forms</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that allow generating and using forms.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.easyform">collective.easyform</a>
- EasyForm provides a Plone form builder through-the-web using fields,
widgets, actions and validators. Form input can be saved or emailed. A
simple and user-friendly interface allows non-programmers to create
custom forms.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.fieldedit">collective.fieldedit</a>
- A flexible form to edit selected fields of a content type.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.honeypot">collective.honeypot</a>
- Honeypot protection for forms.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.z3cform.datagridfield">collective.z3cform.datagridfield</a>
- A field with a datagrid (table), where each row is a sub form.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.z3cform.norobots">collective.z3cform.norobots</a>
- A “human” captcha widget based on a list of questions/answers.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.formwidget.hcaptcha">plone.formwidgets.hcaptcha</a>
- HCaptcha widget to protect Plone from bots, spam, and other forms of
automated abuse.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/bluedynamics/yafowil.plone">yafowil.plone</a> -
Yafowil is a form library for Python. This is its Plone Integration
package.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="multilingual">Multilingual</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons to help manage multilingual sites.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.linguatags">collective.linguatags</a>
- Multilingual Tags for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.app.multilingualindexes">plone.app.multilingualindexes</a>
- Indexes optimized to query multilingual content made with
plone.app.multilingual.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="media">Media</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that handle image, video and audio content.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.autoscaling">collective.autoscaling</a>
- Automatic scaling of large images. Useful to reduce your database size
when editors upload too large images.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.behavior.banner">collective.behavior.banner</a>
- A behavior to create banners and sliders from banners.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.lazysizes">collective.lazysizes</a>
- Integration of lazysizes, a lightweight lazy loader, into Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.wavesurfer">collective.wavesurfer</a>
- Implementation of https://wavesurfer-js.org audio player for
Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/plone.app.imagecropping">plone.app.imagecropping</a>
- Crops Images in Plone manually using cropper JS library.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plone/plone.gallery">plone.gallery</a> -
Photo gallery view for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/RedTurtle/redturtle.gallery">redturtle.gallery</a>
- Adds a gallery view with a carousel made with slick.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/wildcard.media">wildcard.media</a> -
Provides audio and video content types and behaviors.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="security">Security</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.explicitacquisition">collective.explicitacquisition</a>
- Disallow access to acquired content outside the current path.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.geotransform">collective.geotransform</a>
- Graceful E-mail Obfuscation for Plone.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="seo">SEO</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons for search engine optimization.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/bluedynamics/bda.plone.gtm">bda.plone.gtm</a> -
Google Tag Manager Integration.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.behavior.seo">collective.behavior.seo</a>
- Adds extra fields used for SEO optimisation.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.splitsitemap">collective.splitsitemap</a>
- Provides a cached split sitemap on big public sites.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="authentication">Authentication</h2>
<p><em>A list of authentication plugins, to integrate Plone with
external user , Importsources and Migrations.import</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/pas.plugins.ldap">pas.plugins.ldap</a>
- Provides users and groups from a LDAP directory.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/pas.plugins.authomatic">pas.plugins.authomatic</a>
- Authomatic OAuth1/OAuth2/OpenID Login Integration with Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/iw.rejectanonymous">iw.rejectanonymous</a>
- Reject unconditionnally anonymous users from a Plone site, without any
change in your security policy matrix or workflows. The basic use case
is an extranet, where all visitors must be authenticated.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/pas.plugins.headers">pas.plugins.headers</a>
- Reads request headers and uses them for authentication. Think SAML
headers that are set by a front web server like Apache or nginx.</li>
<li><a href="https://pypi.org/project/dm.zope.saml2/">dm.zope.saml2</a>
- Supports SAML2 based Single Sign-On.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.impersonate">collective.impersonate</a>
- Allow administrators to impersonate another user. Useful for verifying
workflow/permission set up on real content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.pwexpiry">collective.pwexpiry</a>
- Provideds methods for stronger user passwords in Plone and password
attack protection.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="shop">Shop</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/bluedynamics/bda.plone.productshop">bda.plone.productshop</a>
- Flexible and modular e-commerce solution for Plone.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="export-import-and-migrations">Export, Import and Migrations</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.exportimport/">collective.exportimport</a>
- Export and import content and a lot of other data from and to Plone.
The main solution for all kinds of migrations based on
plone.restapi.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.migrationhelpers/">collective.migrationhelpers</a>
- Helpers and examples to use during migrations.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.jsonify">collective.jsonify</a>
- Export Plone content to JSON.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.transmogrifier">collective.transmogrifier</a>
- A configurable pipeline, aimed at transforming content for import and
export.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="themes">Themes</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/plonetheme.tokyo">plonetheme.tokyo</a>
- Tokyo Theme for Plone implements Bootstrap 4 into Plone, with an
emphasis on keeping things as close to “default” as possible.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/plonetheme.grueezibuesi">plonetheme.grueezibuesi</a>
- A kitten inspired theme for Plone 6.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.sidebar">collective.sidebar</a>
- A sidebar that consolidates toolbar and navigation.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/RedTurtle/collective.editablemenu">collective.editablemenu</a>
- A customizable navigation menu for Plone.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="develop">Develop</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that help developing Plone</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/Products.PDBDebugMode">Products.PDBDebugMode</a>
- Post-mortem debugging: open a pdb session whenever an exception occurs
so you you can find out what is going wrong. Plus: By adding /pdb to a
url you end up you in a pdb session on the current context. A killer
tool for developers.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/plone/plone.app.debugtoolbar">plone.app.debugtoolbar</a>
- A toolbar that shows a wealth of debug information about a running
Plone site and the content you are inspecting. Also includes a
interactive python-shell, a TALES-expression evaluator and and
code-reload.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plone/plone.reload">plone.reload</a> -
Code and configuration reload without server restarts.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/Products.PrintingMailHost">Products.PrintingMailHost</a>
- Log mail messages instead of sending mail.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/experimental.gracefulblobmissing/">experimental.gracefulblobmissing</a>
- Gracefully handle missing binary files in Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.patchwatcher">collective.patchwatcher</a>
- A great companion for keeping track of patched or overridden
files.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.relationhelpers">collective.relationhelpers</a>
- Helpers to manage, create, export and rebuild relations in Plone 5.x.
For Plone 6 this was merged into Plone core.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="sysadmin">Sysadmin</h2>
<p><em>Add-ons that help admins deploying and maintaining Plone</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.catalogcleanup">collective.catalogcleanup</a>
- Removes data from the catalog that no longer belong to an actual
object.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.fingerpointing">collective.fingerpointing</a>
- Keeps track of different events and write them down to an audit
log.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.ifttt">collective.ifttt</a>
- Enables any Plone site to play in the IFTTT ecosystem. For example
when a news item is published, then tweet about it or post it on
Facebook.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.purgebyid">collective.purgebyid</a>
- Use tag-based cache invalidation in Plone (e.g. with Varnish’s xkey
module).</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.recipe.backup">collective.recipe.backup</a>
- Powerful and flexible backup/restore solution for Plone.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.regenv">collective.regenv</a>
- Override registry settings using environment variables.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.revisionmanager">collective.revisionmanager</a>
- Manage Products.CMFEditions histories that can bloat your
database.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/collective.sentry">collective.sentry</a>
- Sentry integration to aggregate errors and help finding their
causes.</li>
<li><a href="https://pypi.org/project/dm.historical">dm.historical</a> -
Access any historical state of your database. Can be useful to find out
what happened to objects in the past and to restore accidentally deleted
or modified objects.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/collective/haufe.requestmonitoring">haufe.requestmonitoring</a>
- Detailed request logging functionality on top of the publication
events. Useful to find out what takes longer than it should.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="finding-more-add-ons">Finding more add-ons</h2>
<p>It can be hard to find the right add-on for your requirements. Here
are some tips:</p>
<ul>
<li>Make a list of required features.</li>
<li>Look in this list first.</li>
<li>Search pypi: https://pypi.org/search/?c=Framework+%3A%3A+Plone</li>
<li>Search the collective organization on github:
https://github.com/collective</li>
<li>Search the plone organization on github:
https://github.com/plone</li>
<li>Google for your requirements</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you have a shortlist, test these add-ons. Here are the main
issues you need to test before you install an add-on on a production
site:</p>
<ul>
<li>Test all required features. Read but do not trust the
documentation</li>
<li>Check if the add-on runs on your required version</li>
<li>Check if it is maintained</li>
<li>Does it have i18n-support, i.e. is the user-interface translated to
your language?</li>
<li>Does it uninstall cleanly?</li>
<li>Check for unwanted dependencies</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you found an add-on you like, you can ask the community if you
made a good choice or if you missed something:</p>
<ul>
<li>Message Board: https://community.plone.org</li>
</ul>
<p>If you can’t find something that fits your requirements 100% you
can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adapt your requirements to what is available.</li>
<li>Invest the time &amp; money to customize an existing add-ons to
better fit your needs.</li>
<li>Create a new add-on that does exactly what you need.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="official-resources">Official resources</h2>
<p><em>Because Plone also has a lot of good official info
resources</em></p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://plone.org/">plone.org</a> - Official website for
developers and community.</li>
<li><a href="https://community.plone.org/">community.plone.org</a> -
Official community forum, the best place to get help.</li>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/zFY3EBbjaj">Discord chat</a> - Discord
is the best way to chat with members of the Plone community.</li>
<li><a href="https://plone.org/support">Plone support</a> - Where to
find help.</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.plone.org/">docs.plone.org</a> - Official
documentation for developers/integrators.</li>
<li><a href="https://6.dev-docs.plone.org/">Plone 6 Documentation</a> -
Official documentation for the upcoming Plone 6 (work on progress).</li>
<li><a href="https://training.plone.org/">training.plone.org</a> -
Training classes for developers/integrators/users/designers.</li>
<li><a
href="https://6.dev-docs.plone.org/plone.api/index.html">plone.api</a> -
Documentation for plone.api.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
<p>Contributions are welcome! Read the <a
href="contributing.md">contribution guidelines</a>.</p>