The headless CMS
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1) The Headless CMS presentation discusses the use of Plone as a headless CMS for Briefy, a technology-driven marketplace for content creation. 2) It highlights some of the benefits of using Plone over custom PHP or hosted solutions, including avoiding custom development, integration with front-end development, and control over performance. 3) The presentation shares positive customer feedback on using Plone and details the technical implementation including Dexterity content types, behaviors, building blocks, and integration with services like Thumbor and AWS.
The headless CMS
- 1. The Headless CMS Érico Andrei | CTO Briefy.co Plone Conference 20th October 2016 Berlin/Boston
- 2. Why I am here • Former Plone consultant • Former Plone trainer • Former Plone evangelist • Former Plone developer • Current Plone user
- 3. (my) last time @ Plone Conf Bristol, 2014
- 4. since then
- 7. –Andre Lutter, CEO & Founder Briefy „Briefy is a technology driven marketplace that simplifies the way businesses manage the global content creation of photography and virtual reality. Instantly and scalable.“
- 12. is there another way?
- 13. and you find out, there are…
- 16. in common (tech version)
- 20. and (why) I used Plone for that
- 21. Some reasons are better than others • Avoiding more custom PHP development • Batteries included • I’m still quite productive with Plone • And …
- 22. Did not look for hosted solutions
- 23. and I still use Plone…
- 24. All good reasons • One API endpoint • Better control over performance issues • Integration with front-end development is essential
- 25. and now I have 4 Plone developers in the team
- 27. results
- 28. –Kathleen McCaffrey „With little knowledge of developing a website, this CMS meant I quickly felt comfortable navigating the entire website and making content changes - a much more efficient solution for editing texts and media which will really come in use for A/B testing and seasonal campaigns. Brilliantly simple and clear!“
- 29. –Yael Biran „Ideal solution! Within a couple of days we had a live website, which was impressive and consistent across pages. The CMS gives us the flexibility to change all content at any given time.““
- 30. –Leo Chow „So much better than Wordpress!“
- 31. –Alina Muller „Come on, I used it only once!“
- 32. under the hood
- 33. Content types • Dexterity content types • Some custom types • Image gallery • Team roster • Composite page • Container for rows of blocks • i.e: Jumbotron block
- 34. Behaviours • Canonical URL • Robots • Social metadata • Menu / site config
- 35. Building blocks • plone.restapi • plone.app.multilingual • Policy package • PyCharm • AWS/Kubernetes/Deis • Thumbor
- 36. Thumbor • Image Server • Cropping, Filters, Transforms • OpenCV • Event subscribers
- 43. Thank you Érico Andrei @ericof | erico@briefy.co | https://briefy.co