Plone+collective.xdv = Greenwich Tweets takes a step forward
Greenwich Tweets is a website I'm building that will aggregate local information relating to Greenwich (London) from a number of sources -- principally (at least to start with) from Twitter, Flickr and the BBC.
It's been a bit slow going on getting it off the ground due to a number of other commitments so I haven't done much until now other than set up a Twitter account (@greenwichtweets) which is following a number of people whose Tweets I hope to pull into the site. I've also registered for a Guardian API key which will means in time I hope to incorporate related news from the Guardian.
This weekend I've spent a bit of time (not too much I'm glad to say) in getting a development environment set up and configuring my Plone hosting which I've had for some time but not done too much with so far.
I've decided to use the collective.xdv approach to theming rather than go through the rigmarole of creating a new Plone theme. This means that the visual design integration can take place outside of Plone with the relevant parts of Plone content appearing in defined areas of the design.
It was a bit of a struggle getting collective.xdv working on OSX but this seems to be working now. Following the instructions on plone.org and downloading the sample buildout file appear to have worked, although I had to remove an existing installation of lxml from another download of Plone which seemed to be causing problems for some reason. Also, it's worth noting there's an omission and a typo in the instructions that cause problems -- both of which have been noted in the document's comments:
- You need to install collective.xdv via your Plone site's Site Setup before you can configure it
- The reference to the themes directory you need to create is referred to once as "themes" and once as "theme". You just need to be consistent and reference the correct directory name.
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