Create a Plone 4 Blog Site
| filed under: ploneThese are the steps I have used to create a simple Plone 4 based blogging site.
I followed the normal install of a Plone 4 site and then performed the following customizations to get a basic blogging site. I am not looking for a complicated setup, so I am just using the basic Blogging product for Plone.
Added Blogging eggs to buildout:
collective.blogging
collective.bloggingmaps
Then I created a "Collection" that lists the pages on the site since those are the blog entries for me. I set that as the default view
for the front page.
I changed the navigation to only display folders in top-level tabs by going to the navigation section of the control panel and unchecking "Generate tabs for items other than folders.":
http://localhost:8181/noisygecko/@@navigation-controlpanel
The I retracted the "welcome" page, "News", "Events" and "Users".
I removed footers by hiding viewlets at the bottom:
http://localhost:8181/noisygecko/@@manage-viewlets