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| ReleaseVolto Light Theme 8.0.0 is here
Volto Light Theme reaches its next major milestone. VLT 8 lands on Volto 19, Plone 6.2 and @plone/components 4, with a leaner core, a registry-first architecture for swapping structural components, a documented design system, and a serious investment in testing.
| CommunityBeethoven Sprint 2026 – Sprint Report
From 18 to 22 May 2026, Plonistas from around the world gathered in Bonn, Germany, for the annual Beethoven Sprint. Over the course of five days, contributors from across the community worked together on the next steps for the Plone ecosystem.
| Plone Core / AIManaging Your Plone Site with AI: A Complete Guide to the Plone MCP Server
What if you could manage your entire site by just asking an AI to do it for you? That's exactly what the Plone MCP Server makes possible. It connects your Agent directly to your Plone CMS, letting you create pages, publish content, manage users, and build complex layouts: all through a natural language conversation.
| Plone Core / AIIntroducing Plone MCP: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Content Management
What if you're on the road and you forgot to announce your latest news on your website? Wouldn't it be cool if you could just tell your phone to do it for you?
| CommunityBeethoven Sprint 2025
This year, we once again had a fantastic Beethoven Sprint in Bonn for the 7th time from May 26th - 30th. With 32 participants in person and at least 4 more Plonistas sprinting remotely, this was the biggest Beethoven Sprint so far. Developers joined us from 12 different countries on 4 different continents, making it the most international Plone sprint in Bonn as well.
| Plone CorePlone 6.1: A Powerful and Flexible CMS
The wait is over! Plone 6.1 is here, bringing a host of new features and improvements that make content management more intuitive, efficient, and flexible than ever. Whether you’re a developer, content editor, or site administrator, Plone 6.1 introduces several enhancements designed to streamline your workflow and optimize your digital experience. Let’s dive into some of the most notable updates in this release.
| Conference | Jakob KahlPlone Conference 2023 - Eibar
The 2023 editon of the annual Plone conference happened from October 2nd to 8th in Eibar, Basque Country The kitconcept team was present with…
| Conference | Timo StollenwerkPlone Conference 2022 - Namur
The 2022 editon of the annual Plone conference happened from October 10th to 16th in Namur, Belgium. The kitconcept team was present with nine…
| Plone Core | Timo Stollenwerk, Víctor Fernandez de AlbaOn The Road to Plone 6 - Volto 14 Released
Volto continues to innovate at a fast pace towards Plone 6. Today we released another major milestone on our road to Plone 6: Volto 1…
| Plone Core | Timo StollenwerkOn The Road to Plone 6: REST API 7 and Volto 12
Two weeks ago we cut two important releases on the road to Plone 6. Plone REST API 7 introduces a new link integrity feature for blocks…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2019
21 developers from nine different countries gathered in Bonn, Germany between June 20th and 24th to work on implementing the upcoming Plone…
| Plone Core | Timo StollenwerkPastanaga Editor Status Report - Plone Beethoven Sprint 2018
During the Plone Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, we worked hard on creating a first version of a new content editor for Plone-React . Here is a…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2018: Report Day 3
Report of the third day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The Beethoven Sprint was a “strategic” sprint that took place…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2018: Report Day 2
Report of the second day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The Beethoven Sprint was a “strategic” sprint that took place…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2018: Report Day 1
Report of the first day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint 2018 in Bonn, Germany The Beethoven Sprint was a “strategic” sprint that took place…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone-React Sprint Bonn 2018
From March 12th to 15th, we hosted a Plone-React sprint at our office in Bonn. The main goal of this three day sprint was to contribute…
| Engineering | Víctor Fernandez de AlbaPastanaga icon system
The way we deal with icons in the web has evolved over the years. Images, images sprites, fonts, SVG, SVG sprites… I’ve been looking lately…
| Plone Core | Timo Stollenwerkplone.restapi 1.0.0 released - A Story of Successful Open Source Collaboration
After more than three years of development and 25 alpha and one beta release, we are very happy and proud to announce the release of plone…
| Engineering | Timo StollenwerkContinuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse and Jenkins
Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages by Google. It measures the performance of a website and…
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Pastanaga Sprint Bonn 2017
Pastanaga is a new user experience framework for the web, designed by Albert Casado. Pastanaga was first presented in March 2017, at the…
| Engineering | Albert Casado, Timo Stollenwerk, Víctor Fernandez de AlbaHeadless and Mobile - The Future of Plone
Summary of two presentations by Victor Fernandez de Alba, Albert Casado and Timo Stollenwerk during PLOG 2017 This is the summary of two…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2017: Report Day 3
eport of the third day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, Germany Angular 2 Eric Brehault included angular-traversal in the plone…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2017: Report Day 2
Report of the second day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, Germany plone.restapi Enhancements Lukas refactored the @types endpoint to…
| Community | Timo StollenwerkPlone Beethoven Sprint 2017: Report Day 1
Report of the first day of the Plone Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, Germany We started the day with a stand-up meeting giving people a heads up…
| Plone Core | Timo StollenwerkContinuous Integration for Plone
How we set up a new distributed Continuous Integration infrastructure for Plone with Jenkins, Ansible, Jenkins Job Builder, and mr.roboto.