Plone 4 and New User's Guide just released

The Plone community is proud to announce Plone 4, the latest version of our state-of-the-art open source CMS. It's faster, more powerful and better looking than ever before. Along with the Plone 4 software release, Enfold Systems has made available an updated and improved version of the book, A User's Guide to Plone.

Plone 4 | the Software

This new release of Plone focuses on increased speed, scalability, ease-of-use, and offers simple installation for both new sites & upgrades. Enfold Systems has deployed pre-release Plone 4 based solutions for months, and has seen immediate benefits to end-users, content editors and developers alike.

Plone 4 brings significant performance improvements. It is about 50% faster than Plone 3, is more memory efficient, has search / indexing improvements and serves massive files & video easily. Plone 4 also features a new theme that is accessible and easy to customize, a polished user interface that was refined to be even more intuitive, and a new graphical HTML editor (TinyMCE).

Like previous versions of Plone, there are point-and-click installers for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can be up and running in under 10 minutes, and Plone 4 is an easy upgrade from Plone 3. For an in-depth review of Plone 4, visit here, or contact us above for a FREE upgrade / migration consultation.

Plone 4 | the Book

The 246 page latest edition, A User's Guide to Plone 4, was re-written, updated and includes new material on topics such as: using the TinyMCE editor, using Plone for wikis and making content easy to find. Unlike other Plone books, this volume focuses on how to use "out of the box" features preinstalled with any default Plone installation. It is written especially for those who use Plone on a daily basis to write and approve content. Learn more

“Plone 4 provides a world class user experience. It also silences its critics on many aspects such as performance, flexibility and deployment configuration.” says Alan Runyan, President of Enfold Systems and Co-Founder of the Plone CMS. “In addition, this new version of the book serves as an ideal support tool to enable end users to be self sufficient. This is vitally important for large scale organizations to have this type of support material.”