Awesome Plone
Add-ons and resources for the CMS Plone
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
General
Content and utilities for content
collective.consent
Ask users for consent to different topics, before they can continue.
collective.dexteritytextindexer
Dynamic SearchableText index for dexterity content types. For Plone 6 this was merged into Plone core.
collective.documentgenerator
Generate Documents (.odt, .pdf, .doc) from content based on appy framework (https://appyframe.work/) and OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
collective.documentviewer
Very nice document viewer that integrates DocumentCloud viewer and PDF processing into Plone.
collective.easyformplugin.createdx
Creates Plone content objects from EasyForm submissions.
collective.embeddedpage
A content type to embed remote HTML pages in Plone Classic and Volto.
collective.folderishtraverse
Traverse to first item in folder.
collective.folderishtypes
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.
collective.geolocationbehavior
Geotagging for Plone content using LeafletJS.
collective.glossary
Content type to define a glossary and its terms.
collective.immediatecreate
Create content immediatly and skip the add form.
collective.lineage
Subsites: Turns subfolders of a Plone site to appear as autonomous Plone sites. There is also a whole ecosystem off addons specific to subsites.
collective.mailchimp
MailChimp newsletter integration for Plone.
collective.mirror
A content type that mirrors the content of any other container.
collective.mustread
Tracking user views on content that are marked as must-read.
collective.person
A content type to represent a person, with an optional behavior to connect it to a Plone user.
collective.pdfjs
Plone integration for Mozilla's JavaScript PDF reader.
collective.remoteproxy
Proxy for remote content. All remote URLs for which a local proxy was created are replaced in the resulting content.
collective.restrictportlets
Allows you to restrict the available portlets that non-Managers can add.
collective.workspace
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.
dexterity.membrane
Enables content to be used as users and groups in Plone sites.
plone.pdfexport
Generic PDF export functionality for Plone content.
Products.EasyNewsletter
Powerful newsletter/mailing product for Plone.
zopyx.ipsumplone
Creates demo content and demo images for Plone.
collective.folderorder
Allows alternative ordering on plone folders.
Editing
collective.a11ycheck
Reports accessibility issues to your site editors when a page is saved.
collective.collabora
Collabora Online integration for Plone to provide collaborative document editing.
collective.bbcodesnippets
Provides generic and extensible BBCode markup integration for Plone.
collective.richdescription
Formatable description field for Plone.
Searching and Categorizing
cioppino.twothumbs
Rate content using up- and down-thumbs.
collective.bookmarks
Bookmarks/ favorites/ wish-list for Plone.
collective.collectionfilter
Faceted navigation filter for collection or contentlisting tiles.
collective.elasticsearch
Use Elasticsearch as the search backend for Plone.
collective.elastic.plone
Elasticsearch Integration for Plone content.
collective.searchandreplace
Find and replace text in Plone content objects.
collective.solr
Solr search engine integration for Plone.
collective.taxonomy
Create, edit and use hierarchical taxonomies to categorize content.
eea.facetednavigation
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.
Products.PloneKeywordManager
Change, merge and delete keywords/tags/subjects).
zopyx.typesense
Plone integration with the external Typesense search server (open-source). This is an alternative to collective.solr or Elasticsearch.
Layout
plone.app.mosaic
Powerful and extendable editor that allows users to compose the content of a page with different tiles.
collective.cover
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.
collective.contentsections
Offers a block approach for Plone 6 Classic based entirely on Dexterity content types.
collective.gridlisting
Adds a dexterity behavior and a browser template to manipulate folder and collection listings by adding Bootstrap 5 CSS classes and pat-masonry from patternslib.
Tiles
plone.app.standardtiles
A set of standard tiles used by Mosaic, but can be used from any other tile manager.
collective.tiles.carousel
A slider tile for plone.app.mosaic based on the carousel component of Bootstrap 5.
collective.tiles.advancedstatic
A tile that shows html text (similar to the static text portlet), with some additional configuration like the possibility to add custom css classes.
collective.tiles.collection
A tile that shows a set of collection results with possibility to choose (and develop) custom layouts.
Events
collective.easyformplugin.registration
Add a behavior to collective.easyform to manage registration forms for events.
collective.fullcalendar
Display events in a nice calendar UI using https://fullcalendar.io.
collective.venue
Venue type with geolocation support for use with events or any other location specific content.
Forms
collective.easyform
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.
collective.fieldedit
A flexible form to edit selected fields of a content type.
collective.honeypot
Honeypot protection for forms.
collective.z3cform.datagridfield
A field with a datagrid (table), where each row is a sub form.
collective.z3cform.norobots
A "human" captcha widget based on a list of questions/answers.
plone.formwidgets.hcaptcha
HCaptcha widget to protect Plone from bots, spam, and other forms of automated abuse.
yafowil.plone
Yafowil is a form library for Python. This is its Plone Integration package.
Multilingual
collective.linguatags
Multilingual Tags for Plone.
plone.app.multilingualindexes
Indexes optimized to query multilingual content made with plone.app.multilingual.
cs.adminlanguage
Configure a language to be used when editing your Plone site, independent to the site language.
collective.multilingual
This add-on provides support for content in multiple languages (multilingual).
Media
collective.autoscaling
Automatic scaling of large images. Useful to reduce your database size when editors upload too large images.
collective.behavior.banner
A behavior to create banners and sliders from banners.
collective.behavior.relatedmedia
A behavior to create/upload/manage media relations (Image, File) for content types.
collective.lazysizes
Integration of lazysizes, a lightweight lazy loader, into Plone.
collective.wavesurfer
Implementation of https://wavesurfer.xyz/ audio player for Plone.
plone.app.imagecropping
Crops Images in Plone manually using cropper JS library.
plone.gallery
Photo gallery view for Plone.
redturtle.gallery
Adds a gallery view with a carousel made with slick.
wildcard.media
Provides audio and video content types and behaviors.
cs_flickrgallery
Flickr photo gallery support for Plone.
Security
collective.explicitacquisition
Disallow access to acquired content outside the current path.
collective.geotransform
Graceful E-mail Obfuscation for Plone.
collective.contactformprotection
Disables the default contact-info form or protect it with plone.formwidget.[h|re]captcha.
collective.lockdown
Protect Plone sites against site administrators from reconfiguring the site or making layout changes.
SEO
bda.plone.gtm
Google Tag Manager Integration.
collective.behavior.seo
Adds extra fields used for SEO optimisation.
collective.splitsitemap
Provides a cached split sitemap on big public sites.
kitconcept.seo
Adds extra fields used for SEO optimisation for sites using Volto.
Authentication
pas.plugins.ldap
Provides users and groups from a LDAP directory.
pas.plugins.authomatic
Authomatic OAuth1/OAuth2/OpenID Login Integration with Plone.
pas.plugins.eea
Provides user and group enumeration on top of pas.plugins.authomatic, with support for Microsoft Entra ID. Includes user and group synchronization.
iw.rejectanonymous
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.
pas.plugins.headers
Reads request headers and uses them for authentication. Think SAML headers that are set by a front web server like Apache or nginx.
dm.zope.saml2
Supports SAML2 based Single Sign-On.
collective.impersonate
Allow administrators to impersonate another user. Useful for verifying workflow/permission set up on real content.
collective.pwexpiry
Provideds methods for stronger user passwords in Plone and password attack protection.
pas.plugins.oidc
Login using OIDC providers.
wcs.samlauth
Login using SAML providers.
Shop
bda.plone.productshop
Flexible and modular e-commerce solution for Plone.
Export, Import and Migrations
collective.exportimport
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.
collective.migrationhelpers
Helpers and examples to use during migrations.
collective.jsonify
Export Plone content to JSON.
collective.transmogrifier
A configurable pipeline, aimed at transforming content for import and export.
Themes
plonetheme.tokyo
A alternative theme for Plone using Bootstrap 5.
plonetheme.grueezibuesi
A kitten inspired theme for Plone 6.
collective.sidebar
A sidebar that consolidates toolbar and navigation.
collective.editablemenu
A customizable navigation menu for Plone.
collective.localstyles
Add local styles within any subsection of a Plone site by adding a css-file.
Develop
Products.PDBDebugMode
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.
plone.app.debugtoolbar
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.
plone.reload
Code and configuration reload without server restarts.
Products.PrintingMailHost
Log mail messages instead of sending mail.
experimental.gracefulblobmissing
Gracefully handle missing binary files in Plone.
collective.debugtools
Add remote debugging via debugpy for debugpy-compatible clients like VSCode or PyCharm.
collective.icecream
Debug and inspect Plone using the icecream package.
collective.patchwatcher
A companion for keeping track of patched or overridden files.
collective.pdbpp
Allows you to use the pdbpp package.
collective.relationhelpers
Helpers to manage, create, export and rebuild relations in Plone 5.x. For Plone 6 this was merged into Plone core.
Sysadmin
collective.catalogcleanup
Removes data from the catalog that no longer belong to an actual object.
collective.fingerpointing
Keeps track of different events and write them down to an audit log.
collective.ftw.upgrade
Simplifies writing and running upgrade steps for Plone add-ons and projects.
collective.ifttt
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.
collective.purgebyid
Use tag-based cache invalidation in Plone (e.g. with Varnish's xkey module).
collective.recipe.backup
Powerful and flexible backup/restore solution for Plone.
collective.regenv
Override registry settings using environment variables stored in a file.
plone-registryfromenviron
Override plone.registry settings from environment variables.
collective.revisionmanager
Manage Products.CMFEditions histories that can bloat your database.
collective.sentry
Sentry integration to aggregate errors and help finding their causes.
dm.historical
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.
haufe.requestmonitoring
Detailed request logging functionality on top of the publication events. Useful to find out what takes longer than it should.
Cloudbrine
A set of add-ons that replace the ZODB and the catalog with PostgreSQL and stores objects as queryable JSONB and can delegate image scaling to Thumbor.
Official resources
plone.org
Official website for developers and community.
community.plone.org
Official community forum, the best place to get help.
Discord chat
Discord is the best way to chat with members of the Plone community.
Plone support
Where to find help.
docs.plone.org
Official documentation for developers/integrators.
Plone 6 Documentation
Official documentation for the upcoming Plone 6 (work on progress).
training.plone.org
Training classes for developers/integrators/users/designers.
plone.api
Documentation for plone.api.
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