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Plone Conference Plone Conference 2026: September 21 - September 26, Maastricht, Netherlands

"We build websites worth having."That is how Juizi describes itself, in one line, and this September they are sponsoring...
05/09/2026

"We build websites worth having."

That is how Juizi describes itself, in one line, and this September they are sponsoring Plone Conference 2026.

Juizi works out of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Thirty years old this year, and building on Plone since 2004.

Worth having is a longer commitment than it sounds. Plenty of sites are worth having on launch day. Whether one is still worth having in year eight, after the people who commissioned it have moved on and the platform underneath it has had to keep up, is the harder question. Juizi has been answering it for twenty-two years, from the far side of the world, on open source.

The team is coming to Maastricht, and several of them are speaking. Ask them about it there.

Dankie, Juizi. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.

Conference and sponsors: https://2026.ploneconf.org/sponsors

Juizi https://juizi.com

An SEO audit on a university website can start with a data processing agreement. That is often where the idea dies.Most ...
04/09/2026

An SEO audit on a university website can start with a data processing agreement. That is often where the idea dies.

Most SEO and content-audit tools either hand your content to somebody else's server or turn a crawler loose on your site, sometimes before a page is published. For a public body, a hospital, or a university, that is a procurement blocker before it is a technical one.

Jan Mevissen brings two Plone 6 add-ons built the other way round. No AI, no external service, nothing leaving your Plone.

SEO-Check Lite runs in the editor's browser as a floating badge. Meta description, titles, internal links, a pixel-accurate Google snippet preview, and WCAG checks in the same pass: alt texts, link texts, table headers, heading hierarchy. Deterministic, with a transparent CI-style score.

interaktiv.sitemapaudit skips crawling. It reads the sitemap.xml.gz Plone already publishes, parses every URL and lastmod date, and turns that into a structural health check: path depth, translation coverage, copy_of duplicates, stale pages, slugs the length of a sentence. Sortable, filterable, exportable to CSV. Which is what turns an audit into a to-do list somebody works through.

Live demos of both.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/privacy-first-seo-accessibility-content-audits-plone6

Nearly two decades of Plone, for Spanish public administrations.That is espublico tecnología, sponsoring Plone Conferenc...
04/09/2026

Nearly two decades of Plone, for Spanish public administrations.

That is espublico tecnología, sponsoring Plone Conference 2026. Their work sits behind public-sector portals in Spain, and a portal like that gets judged on one thing above all: whether it is still running, still maintained, and still under the institution's own control years after the launch.

Why they are backing the conference, in their own words:
"At espublico tecnología, we've been building Plone portals for public administrations across Spain since 2007. Public institutions deserve a CMS that is open, secure, and technologically sovereign, and Plone delivers exactly that. Sponsoring Plone Conference 2026 is our way of giving back to a community that has been at the core of our work for nearly two decades."

Gracias, espublico. Thank you for helping bring the community to Maastricht this September.

Conference and sponsors: https://2026.ploneconf.org/sponsors

espublico: https://www.espublicogestiona.com

A client asks whether the blue could be slightly different. On a Plone Blicca site that has meant copying the theme, edi...
03/09/2026

A client asks whether the blue could be slightly different. On a Plone Blicca site that has meant copying the theme, editing stylesheets, rebuilding, reloading. A developer's afternoon, for a colour.

Roland Fasching's point is that modern Bootstrap made that detour unnecessary and most of us carried on taking it anyway. Almost all of its design decisions now sit in values the browser reads at runtime.

plone.palette is a theming customizer that lives inside the site. Change something and it appears on the real page immediately, and it saves with the site's other settings. No build step, no restart.

So "can we try a different blue?" stops being a ticket and becomes a two-minute conversation with the client sitting right there.

Roland founded the Austrian agency cloud19 in 2004 and has built with Plone since version 2.0. Full-stack by trade, designer by temperament.

Twenty-five minutes at Plone Conference 2026.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/painting-plone-live-runtime-bootstrap-theming-for-plone-blicca-with-plone-palette

DCWorkflow has been the gold standard for content state in Plone for two decades. Draft to Published, flawlessly, for tw...
03/09/2026

DCWorkflow has been the gold standard for content state in Plone for two decades. Draft to Published, flawlessly, for twenty years.

Ask it to orchestrate a process with several actors, parallel tasks, conditional branches and timer events, and it strains. Most of us have built the workaround anyway. Then built it again on the next project.

Asko Soukka's recommendation is to stop doing that. Accept that the CMS has limits, and put the process somewhere built for processes.

His talk introduces BPMN 2.0, the standard where a business process is both a diagram the business side can read and a file that executes. Then Operaton, a community-driven open-source BPMN engine, running alongside Plone. Content workflows stay exactly where they are.

You get the basics of modelling an executable process, the shift from thinking in document states to thinking in activities, and a proof-of-concept add-on that brings the models to life inside the CMS.

Asko has written Python for over 25 years and works as a software architect at the University of Jyväskylä.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/beyond-state-complex-business-processes-in-plone-with-bpmn-2.0

Most of Plone's history is not written down anywhere. It lives in the memories of the people who were there.Fred van Dij...
02/09/2026

Most of Plone's history is not written down anywhere. It lives in the memories of the people who were there.

Fred van Dijk noticed that at a sprint earlier this year, and it bothered him enough to start doing something about it.

The Little Book of Plone is the result so far. Not a complete history, and not the definitive one. A place to begin writing down the software, the people, the milestones and the decisions that shaped twenty-five years of Plone, alongside what was happening on the wider web at the time.

The timing is deliberate. The community is working through questions about its future governance and organisational structure right now, and those conversations go better when people know how the current arrangement came to exist.

New contributors inherit more than a codebase. They inherit a community, a culture, and decades of decisions nobody ever explained to them.

At Plone Conference 2026 Fred presents the first draft and asks the community to carry it on together.

If you were there for any of it, he wants your stories.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/the-little-book-of-plone

Most SEO tools share one uncomfortable habit. They send your content to somebody else's servers.For a hospital, a univer...
02/09/2026

Most SEO tools share one uncomfortable habit. They send your content to somebody else's servers.

For a hospital, a university, or a public body, that ends the conversation before it starts.

So Interaktiv built one that does not. The interaktiv SEO-Check Lite runs entirely in the editor's browser. No AI, no external service, no calls to third parties. Nothing leaves the page.

It sits as a floating badge inside the screen your team is already editing, and covers two jobs usually split across two tools. On-page SEO: meta description, titles, internal links, a pixel-accurate preview of the Google snippet. And WCAG accessibility: alt texts, link texts, table headers, heading hierarchy.

Every check is deterministic and produces a transparent, CI-style score. No black box, and no model whose answer changes between runs.

Configurable without code, and a drop-in for any Volto site.

Jan Mevissen has worked with Plone since 2008.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/nothing-leaves-the-page-a-privacy-first-seo-accessibility-assistant-for-volto

Every Plone project ends the same way. Hundreds of occasional editors, a CMS they touch twice a year, and a PDF manual n...
01/09/2026

Every Plone project ends the same way. Hundreds of occasional editors, a CMS they touch twice a year, and a PDF manual nobody opens.

Training does not scale. The same three questions arrive as support tickets forever. And the documentation goes stale the moment someone moves a button.

Alexander Rybakov's answer is guided tours that live inside Plone 6 and Volto. An editor stuck on a screen gets the steps for that screen, right where they are stuck.

The interesting part is how a tour gets made. You record one by clicking through the actual task. Stable selectors are generated automatically, and an AI assistant drafts the step texts from the recorded context, in the editor's own language. No page content and no user data goes to the AI provider.

That is what keeps tours alive. One cheap enough to re-record every time the UI moves will not rot the way the PDF did.

He brings the architecture, the hard parts, and what changed for editor confidence and support load once the tours replaced the manual. Live demo included.

Maastricht, 21–27 September.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/unassigned-talks/stop-writing-manuals-nobody-reads-recording-ai-assisted-guided-tours-in-plone-6

A bridge, lit at night. The builders went home years ago. People are still crossing.That is the only measure that ever m...
01/09/2026

A bridge, lit at night. The builders went home years ago. People are still crossing.

That is the only measure that ever mattered. Not the opening ceremony, but whether anyone still needs the thing when nobody is watching.

Over ten posts we walked through the same house through different doors. The CIO weighing a decision with a ten-year tail. The developer leaning over a stranger's laptop in a corridor. The public-sector lead asking who is accountable when a system decides. The sponsor putting money behind something quiet. The newcomer at the edge of the room. The researcher building for a horizon longer than the grant.

Different doors. Same house.

Plone Conference 2026 runs 21–27 September in Maastricht. Trainings, talks, sprints. One week, built the way infrastructure gets built: patiently, by people who keep showing up for each other.

Come and see what we made.

https://2026.ploneconf.org/

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