Products
WebLion has developed a variety of add-on products for Plone. Here are our most popular. Links go to sites where you can read more about and obtain each product.
Introduction to products
Covers: what is a product, where can you get products, general advice on products, how to install a product.
CSS Manager
Aids rapid, through-the-web theming, by allowing users to modify the colors, fonts and other elements of visual styling. Suitable for people without much technical knowledge, and for CSS experts wanting to try out styles quickly. Removes the need to go into the ZMI to enable CSS debug mode.
Faculty/Staff Directory
Provides content types for creating and organizing personnel directories within educational institutions. Integrates with Plone's users and groups infrastructure and supports an extensibility framework for custom requirements.
ContentWellPortlets
Enables you to put portlets in places other than right and left columns, specifically, above the main heading of the page and/or at the base of the page, above the footer. In each area, you can add up to three columns of portlets. Using this product, you can create distinctive layouts for pages, folders etc without having to write new Zope page templates. Tested with Plone 3.1.7
CustomNav
Helps you create highly customized navigation portlets. Starting point, content type filtering, and other, arbitrary catalog query constraints can all be straightforwardly customized. Also, since CustomNav uses the same underlying machinery as the standard navigation portlet, it is consistent with Plone's stock user interface and likely to be forward compatible.
AD54Elements
Enables sites to comply with Penn State policy AD54. Adds a PSU logo, a place for your departmental or unit wordmark, an AD54-compliant search box, and a Penn State footer. Can be checked out from the WebLion Subversion repository.
QuickReinstaller
Adds a "reinstall" link next to the installed products shown on the Add/Remove Products page in Plone. Cuts down on the number of page loads necessary to reinstall a product. Can be checked out of the WebLion Subversion repository.
GloWorm
A Firebug-like tool that allows you to delve into the code (TAL, METAL, Python) underlying your site. A point-and-click interface lets you highlight something on your screen and see what template or script produced it. Reorder, show/hide, and edit viewlets inline. Currently in beta stage.
WebServerAuth
WebServerAuth allows Plone to delegate authentication concerns to a web server like Apache or IIS. Using WebServerAuth, Plone can be configured so any user known to your LDAP, Kerberos, Shibboleth, or Pubcookie system—or any other system for which your web server has an authentication module—can transparently log in using enterprise-wide credentials. WebServerAuth obsoletes and improves upon apachepas and AutoMemberMakerPasPlugin, which come significantly and entirely, respectively, from the same author.
Bugs and enhancements
Request an enhancement to one of our products, or report a bug, using our Trac ticketing system. First, check that no one else wants the same thing, then open a new ticket.
Products in development
Our wiki lists products that we are currently working on but have not yet released
