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Plone 3 : Changing the title for custom Zope 3 views

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Recently I needed to change the title for a custom Zope 3 view. The title is displayed in the “Display” menu, when you add the view as one of the “Available view methods” of the content type. The text shown by default is the view name (usually something like viewname_view), which is not very user-friendly. (more…)

Creating a static copy of a dynamic website

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

At work we have several websites that we develop with Plone, but each year we make a new version and we want to keep an archive of the old version.

Since it takes a lot of memory to keep a Zope instance for these old websites that probably won’t need to be edited ever again, it makes sense to make a static copy of the website. It also eliminates the work needed to update the instance when security patches come out (and eliminates security risks, in cases of old versions that are no more maintained).

There are some tools that can help in this case; I chose to use wget, which is available in most Linux distributions by default.

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