For access to Castle Cloud (our hosted CastleCMS service) or to request customizations or demos, please contact us at https://castlecms.io or https://wildcardcorp.com

[email protected]

+1 (715) 869-3440

In addition to Plone standard features, CastleCMS includes:

• Login/lockout support
• Content archival to Amazon 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 tuned by social media impact
• Search results pinning

• Celery task queue integration (asynchronous actions)

  • PDF generation
  • Video conversion
  • Amazon S3 interaction
  • copying and pasting of large batches of items
  • deletion and renaming of large batches of items

• 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 commenting integration
• reCAPTCHA integration
• fullcalendar integration
• Google Business metadata
• Emergency notification system with optional SMS support
• Preview content on a variety of device sizes
• Map content
• KML feeds
• Social media integration with Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest
• Etherpad collaborative spaces support
• Stripping metadata from files
• Ability to view the site as another user
• Audit log, user activity reports
• Session management, inspection and termination
• Analytics dashboard
• De-duplication of uploaded images and files
• Trash can / recycle bin
• Two factor authentication

This package includes a lot of customizations to default Plone and, without an installer, getting it running is a bit tricky.

• Redis
• avconv (needs to be updated for ffmpeg again)
• ElasticSearch 2.3

1. brew install redis elasticsearch libav python
2. git clone [email protected]:castlecms/castle.cms.git
3. cd castle.cms
4. virtualenv -p python2.7 .
5. bin/pip install --upgrade pip
6. bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
7. bin/buildout
8. Run (in separate terminal windows) elasticsearch, redis-server, bin/instance fg
9. Browse to https://localhost:8080/

10. Once you have created a site in the development instance, run init-dev script to populate templates, bin/instance run castle/cms/_scripts/init-dev.py

• Install argon2_cffi to use more secure password hashing.
• https://github.com/castlecms/elasticsearch-castle-scoring
• https://github.com/castlecms/castlehps for faster search integration
• Amazon S3 credentials to store large files on S3
• Google API keys for Google analytics and Recaptcha integrations
• Plivo API for SMS

Default plone testing:

./bin/test -s castle.cms

To run only robot tests:

./bin/test -s castle.cms -t robot

Without robot:

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

If you have errors complaining about warning, make sure the version of selenium you're using works with the version of Firefox you have installed (see above)

$ docker-compose up

or, just the essentials: $ docker run -p 6379:6379 redis $ docker run -p 9200:9200 elasticsearch:2.4-alpine

Castle maintains forks and custom releases of packages occasionally. Here is the status and reasoning for our forks:

• plone.app.blocks: https://github.com/castlecms/plone.app.blocks (Hard fork): Castle heavily customizes how Plone renders things including how "blocks" are rendered
• plone-app-mosaic: https://github.com/castlecms/plone.app.mosaic/tree/castlecms (Hard fork, castlecms branch): Originally for fixes but at this point, we will maintain the fork until we have reason not to or we have better alternative layout engines.
• plonetheme.barceloneta: (Hard fork): Castle rendering of barceloneta. No Diazo.
• plone.app.registry (Dev release): Release to get Plone 5.1 features into Castle based off Plone 5.0. Can be removed once we go to 5.2
• plone.app.standardtiles (Dev release): Unknown status on if we still need this release.
• Products.ZCatalog (Dev release): unknown status
• z3c.relationfield (Dev release): PR: zopefoundation/z3c.relationfield#7
• mockup: https://github.com/plone/mockup/tree/2.4.x (Dev release): TinyMCE backport fixes from 5.1
• Products-CMFPlone (Dev release): TinyMCE backport fixes from 5.1 and bundle ordering bug: plone/Products.CMFPlone#2632