espenmn / castle.cms

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Welcome to the main Castle CMS package!

This package does a lot of customizations to default Plone and without an installer, this package won't be very useful.

Until there is an installer, here are some of the things you'll need:

• use this version of plone.app.blocks: https://github.com/castlecms/plone.app.blocks
• Redis installed
• avconv installed(needs to be updated for ffmpeg again)
• ElasticSearch 2.3 installed
• https://github.com/castlecms/elasticsearch-castle-scoring installed
• https://github.com/castlecms/castlehps installed for faster search integration
• S3 credentials
• Google Analytics API integration
• Plivio API
• recaptcha key

Feature List

In addition to Plone standard features...

• Login/Lockout support
• Content Archival to S3 Storage
• Large files automatically moved to s3 storage
• Redis cache support
• Advanced content layout editor
• Improved management toolbar
• Intuitive content creation and organization
• Elasticsearch integration
• Search results are influenced by social media impact
• Search result pinning

• Celery task queue integration(asynchrous actions)

  • PDF generation
  • Video conversation
  • S3 interaction
  • copy pasting large batches of items
  • deleting large batches of items

• Trash can

• Advanced content tiles:

  • maps
  • videos
  • audio
  • sliders
  • galleries
  • Table of contents

• Audio and Video content
• Automatic conversion of videos to web compatible format
• Search weighting based on popularity using google analytics API
• Content alias management
• Disqus integration
• recaptcha integration
• fullcalendar integration
• Business metadata
• Emergency notification system with SMS support
• Preview content
• map content
• KML feeds

• Social media integration with

  • twitter, facebook, pinterest

• etherpad collaborative spaces support
• strip metadata from files
• be able to view site as another user
• audit log, user activity reports
• session management and inspector
• analytics dashboard
• de-duplication of uploaded images
• recycle bin
• 2-factor auth

Running tests

Assuming you have buildout properly installed to run the tests:

Xvfb :99 &
Xvfb :99 -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc -screen 0 1900x1900x24 &
export DISPLAY=:99

To access the running selenium test server on port 55001:

ZSERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0 ./bin/test -s castle.cms

To specify custom firefox binary to match versions:

FIREFOX_BINARY=/opt/firefox/firefox ./bin/test  -s castle.cms

Non selenium tests:

./bin/test -s castle.cms -t \!selenium

Google Analytics Key File

• Go to google api console
• create new credentials - service account - p12
• enable Analytics API api for credentials
• fill out email with email provided and p12 file in castle api settings
• use email for email you want to access and add it as an authorized user for the account in google analytics

Cron jobs

Castle utilizes quite a few cron jobs that should be setup.

Daily

• bin/clean-plone-users: cleans disabled users
• bin/social-counts: goes through all content and updates social media counts. Can be done monthly
• bin/content-popularity: if GA setup, will get content statistics for popularity

Weekly

• bin/archive-content: Archive content and send out content warnings about content that will be archived
• bin/empty-trash: Delete items that have been in trash for 30 days
• bin/send-forced-publish-alert: Send update to admins about content that was forced published

Processes

• bin/twitter-monitor: Monitor twitter for mentions of site