Adventures in Plone (and Zope)

Where "adventures" is qualified by "harrowing" and "preposterous".

VisualWidget, don't do It: More accurately, can't do it. A schema for Archetypes Visual Widget that works.
Useful products: Recommended extensions and add-ons for your Plone installation, including some advice and hacks.
Upgrading to 3.0: In which, again, Plone makes something simple complicated.
On the debugging of page templates: ... and form controllers and macros and webforms ...
Upgrading to 2.1.x: Some notes on the process of updating your Plone site software.
Tips & tricks: Some brutal experience gained while learning to love Zope.
The incident of the missing form script: Another Plone mystery.
The strange case of uneditable files and odd formats: A Plone mystery.
Installing PloneRSS: Notes for the less persistent.
Changing a user's password: When "reset password" fails.
One great big bag of Plone problems: Assorted bugs, weirdness and some solutions.
Form submission fails: Clicking "submit", doesn't, with amusing special effects.
Bugs in the Apple: Issues peculiar to and problem with MacOSX, revealed while a'ploning.
Plone text formats: A beginners guide to the various ways you can enter text in Plone. Written by myself as part of documentation for a project, excerpted here for the greater good.
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Restoring viewlets: How do you get a Plone theme to uninstall and restore viewlets to the usual way. That is the mystery ...