Discover how the Penn State College of Liberal Arts moved over 120 separate websites running on their own Plone installation into a single system utilizing Lineage in less than 90 days. The new system retains the independent permissions and workflows each site needed to have. This talk will discuss the reasons for the consolidation and why the new system is more efficient and easier to navigate for administrators.

1. Clayton Parker
Managing Chaos:
Merging 120 Sites into
a single Plone Multisite
PLONE SYMPOSIUM MIDWEST 2014

2. Who Am I?

3. What will we Learn?
The multisite solution
How to consolidate
Improving performance

4. Discovery

6. Site Creation Workflow
(old)

8. click paste, of course...

9. manually update metadata...

10. catalog clear and rebuild...

11. Success?

12. Performance

13. Migration

18. How is it made?
INavigationRoot
IPossibleSite
➡
IChildSite

19. Site Creation Workflow
(new)

23. Permissions

24. Disadvantages

25. Advantages

26. Links
Lineage
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.lineage
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Penn State College of Liberal Arts
http://www.la.psu.edu/
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Transmogrifier
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier

27. 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)
Thanks to

28. Questions?