Updating plone

Also update this part to specify the location of the BLOB storage directory that will be used by the instance:. If you will be running the instance as a ZEO client on the same machine as the ZEO server, you should configure both to use the same blobstorage directory, and set the shared-blob flag on each Zope instance:. If your buildout installs ZEO, make sure that you use the new plone. The new recipe does not need a zope2-location setting, since ZODB is now installed as an egg.

An example of a working ZEO part configuration:. If you are using the collective. The programs setting of this recipe must be updated to use that parameter instead of the old runzope script which is no longer generated by Zope. Previous Next. Table Of Content. Note Trying to update an existing buildout in place is not recommended. A nice thing about these steps is that they don't all need to be done at the same time.

They can be done gradually if you are short on time. Include a manifest. They can be put into subdirectories to keep the file structure clean. If doing this from cssregistry. Paths to images from the CSS will need to be updated as well, and these can use relative paths as long as the applyPrefix is set to True in the CSS registry.

Chances are, your theme is currently based on Sunburst. By switching to Plone Default as the base, you can copy all styles from Sunburst and add them to your static folder. Entries in the CSS Registry will need to be updated by removing the files you copied, and re-adding them with the static path. These files will live directly inside the static folder. If you want to keep your theme looking the same, you can go to your site, View Source, copy all the code and put it in your index.

Then write your rules to map the dynamic content from Plone to this static html. Now that you have a Diazo theme in place, see if your customizations can instead be done with a Diazo rule, so that you can remove the override completely. If you are at Plone 2. Previous Next. Warning This is the documentation for Plone 5. This involves both the upgrading of the program set, and migration of the site itself.

For most people, this means upgrading Plone to a newer release, for example from 5. Plone has a builtin tool that migrates existing content to the new structure. The guide applies to all contemporary versions of Plone.