Managing Chaos: Merging 120 Sites into a single Plone Multisite Solution

Clayton Parker

Managing Chaos: Merging 120 Sites into a single Plone Multisite

PLONE SYMPOSIUM MIDWEST 2014

Who Am I?

What will we Learn?The multisite solution How to consolidate

Improving performance

Discovery

Site Creation Workflow (old)

click paste, of course...

manually update metadata...

catalog clear and rebuild...

Success?

Performance

Migration

How is it made? INavigationRoot

IPossibleSite ⬇

IChildSite

Site Creation Workflow (new)

Permissions

Disadvantages

Advantages

LinksLineage

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.lineage

!Penn State College of Liberal Arts

http://www.la.psu.edu/

!Transmogrifier

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier

Photo Creditshttps://secure.flickr.com/photos/eleaf/2536358399/ (who)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/aaronknox/5237937436 (learn)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2336220351 (discovery)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/uziy/286739326/ (creation old)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/bcnbits/5078389867 (success)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/mahiskali/6705271393/ (performance)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/vidyo/6893810754 (migration)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/kleinnick/8287051865 (transmogrifier)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/johnnystiletto/5484304778 (how)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/olijon/4471314862 (creation new)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/25813477@N07/4090247829 (permissions)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/6169024742 (advantages)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/bass_nroll/2534055766 (disadvantages)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nzdave/486742731 (links)

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/mrmorodo/13487732285 (photos)

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Questions?