One week ago I migrated my personal site/blog from Plone to WordPress. As such I’ve decided to write a small comparison of the 2 systems. Let’s pun things in my context. A few years ago I’ve worked on a custom CMS implementation. The goal was to develop a product targeted for accesibility and simplicity of use. And, as it was the golden age it was decided to implement it from scratch using java....
The task ahead was to migrate my old plone based blog/site to a wordpress site. Here was a short list of items to keep in mind: plone import content (normal content ~ 600 entries, special:ContentPanels) keep old links still valid including RSS !? handle relative links in posts handle google (sitemap, adwords, analytics) design (find theme, modify css, logo/photo, php part) others (the photos, favicon, 404 page, pre style for code snippets) Export data My first idea was to use the XML export of Plone but this seemed buggy in my install so I decided to create an XML export of my own....
This shows a very simple example on how to create content dynamicaly. The problem: automatically populate a folder with a list of links The solution: 1. create a script object in that folder (using the zope interface) 2. edit this script to create the links using data from a source (in my case I just wrote an external script which generated the array but in your case you might read the list from different other sources...