Alex Clark: Plone 5 Alpha 2 is here!

Hosted configuration

Because of the "muscle memory" I've built up over the years doing this, I always install Plone in development and production via my hosted configuration files. If you are not a developer you may instead prefer the Unified Installer, VirtualBox/Vagrant installer or OS X Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks Binary Installer otherwise follow along [1]:

$ pip install tmp virtualenv
$ cd `tmp`
$ virtualenv .
$ bin/pip install zc.buildout
$ bin/buildout init

Edit buildout.cfg to contain:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-5-0

Run Buildout and start Plone:

$ bin/buildout
$ bin/plone fg

Create Plone Site

The first thing you will notice is the improved "Create a Plone Site" page which now includes a timezone configuration option:

Barceloneta Theme

I selected the US/Eastern timezone and clicked Create Plone Site, shortly after which I was greeted with a beautiful new Plone 5 site in all its open source glory. Immediately you will notice a new theme and toolbar:

Plone Toolbar

Here is a quick tour of the new toolbar.

Folder contents

Edit button

Sharing settings

Workflow settings

Add content

Layout settings

User menu

Love it! Of all these, only the eye icon didn't function as expected. Not sure what it's supposed to do but I assume it's not done yet. Additionally, I wish the small Plone logo in the toolbar navigated "home" like the portal logo. Or maybe it will close the toolbar? Oh, the possibilities!

Thanks

Many thanks to everyone who has worked hard to make Plone 5 a reality.

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