for Plone Editors.

Content’s Quality

Abstract for Plone Conference 2014 maurizio.delmonte@abstract.it /

What “quality”?

★ html - well formed, accessibility, ...★ links - not broken★ images - correct size, ...★ content - SEO, obsolescence, ...★ …

sounds like you need a a good web CMS, isn’t it?

not all web CMSs are created equal.

WHAT ABOUT PLONE?

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Meaningful URLs.● Content organized in folders● URLs derived from title/context of content

good to:✓ ease editors activities✓ ease SEO

Dublin Core everywhere.● all content types provide major Dublin Core

metadata - title, creator, subject, description, ...

good to:✓ ease web syndication through RSS✓ ease SEO

Flexible links.● each content has its own UID● content UIDs are used to create internal links

good to:✓ let editors safely move content around✓ avoid broken internal links

No worries for navigation.● automatic components in the pages take care

of navigation (portal tabs, breadcrumbs, navigation portlet, folder listing, ...)

good to:✓ let editors safely move content around✓ avoid broken internal links

Valid and clean HTML.● page body text HTML filtered using a configurable

filter (no nasty tags, attributes, classes, …)

good to:✓ let editors safely copy/paste content snippets ✓ enforce accessibility rules easily✓ ease visual coherence

Down with 404s.● warning on deletion of content referenced by other content● automatic redirection happens when old URLs of content are

requested

good to:✓ avoid broken links ✓ avoid 404 for moved content✓ improve SEO performance

Resized images at will.● editors get different pre-defined automatic

scales for each published image

good to:✓ avoid to use wrong size for images✓ limit bandwidth for improved user experience

Spelling & grammar checker.● afterthedeadline.com integrated in TinyMCE

good to:✓ avoid spelling & grammar errors in pages

Plone offers all this out-of-the-box.

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Plone add-ons.● Pypi?plone -> 3033 packages● Pypi?collective -> 1649 packages● Github/collective -> 1245 packages● out in the wild -> ++ packages

some of those definitely help with contents’ quality.

… I hate not to know them all! :)

Editor’s assistant.● collective.jekyll● set of useful rules ootb● configurable/extensible

good to:✓ avoid common mistakes (title/description

length, copy_of URLs, etc.)✓ suggest good practice (links and images

with correct size in body text, etc.)

Death to broken links.● collective.linkcheck● gocept.linkchecker

good to:✓ avoid broken links (internal, external)✓ improve SEO performance

URLs under control.● Products.RedirectionTool

○ control Redirection, short-URL● collective.scriptedredirect

○ control redirection using Python

good to:✓ avoid 404s after migrations

● plone.app.imagecropping● Products.ImageEditor

Better images.good to:✓ get more control over images

SEO to the rescue.● collective.googleanalytics

○ per site/page reports○ email/comments/download/external

links stats● qg.seoptimizer

○ SEO oriented tags, canonical URLs

good to:✓ improve SEO performance

Tags and more.● Products.PloneKeywordManager● eea.alchemy

○ auto-tagging, Natural Language Proc. with alchemyapi

● collective.taghelper○ auto-tagging

● collective.taxonomy○ hierarchical taxonomies

good to:✓ improve content classification and

findability

Relations.● eea.alchemy

○ discover related items using alchemyapi

● collective.simserver○ discover related items using its own

doc similarity service

good to:✓ improve content classification and

findability

QA for webmasters.● quintagroup.analytics

○ content stats

good to:✓ understand content situation

Cache quality.● collective.purgebyid

good to:✓ improve cache server

correctness

Catalog quality.● collective.catalogcleanup

○ remove “dead” brains

good to:✓ avoid internal link errors if

catalog gets dirty

more options in your mind?

do CONTRIBUTE!

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How to contribute?● docs.plone.org● paragon.plone.org

good to:✓ let good practices and packages

emerge and get discovered

Maurizio Delmontemaurizio.delmonte@abstract.it