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

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+1 (715) 869-3440

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Welcome to the main Castle CMS package!
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This package includes a lot of customizations to default Plone and, without an installer,
this package won't be very useful.

Until there is an installer, here are some of the things you'll need:

- this version of plone.app.blocks: https://github.com/castlecms/plone.app.blocks
- this version of plone.app.registry: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.registry/pull/15
- Redis
- avconv (needs to be updated for ffmpeg again)
- ElasticSearch 2.3
- https://github.com/castlecms/elasticsearch-castle-scoring
- https://github.com/castlecms/castlehps installed for faster search integration
- Amazon S3 credentials
- Google Analytics API integration
- Plivo API
- reCAPTCHA key


Feature List
============

In addition to Plone standard features...

- 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 are tuned by social media impact
- Search result pinning
- Celery task queue integration (asynchronous actions)
- PDF generation
- Video conversion
- Amazon S3 interaction
- copying and pasting of large batches of items
- deletion 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 integration
- reCAPTCHA integration
- fullcalendar integration
- Business metadata
- Emergency notification system with SMS support
- Preview content
- 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 and inspection
- Analytics dashboard
- De-duplication of uploaded images
- Trash can / recycle bin
- 2-factor authentication


Running tests
=============

Assuming you have buildout properly installed to run the tests:

.. code-block:: shell

Xvfb :99 &
Xvfb :99 -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc -screen 0 1900x1900x24 &
export DISPLAY=:99

To access the running Selenium test server on port 55001:

.. code-block:: shell

ZSERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0 ./bin/test -s castle.cms

To specify custom Firefox binary to match versions:

.. code-block:: shell

FIREFOX_BINARY=/opt/firefox/firefox ./bin/test -s castle.cms

Non-Selenium tests:

.. code-block:: shell

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


Google Analytics Key File
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- go to the Google API console
- create new credentials
- service account
- p12
- enable Analytics API api for credentials
- fill out email with email provided and p12 file in Castle API settings
- use email for email you want to access and add it as an authorized user for the account in Google Analytics


Cron jobs
=========

Castle uses many cron jobs that need to be setup.

Daily
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- ``bin/clean-plone-users``: removes disabled users
- ``bin/social-counts``: goes through all content and updates social media counts. Can be done monthly
- ``bin/content-popularity``: if GA setup, will get content statistics for popularity

Weekly
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- ``bin/archive-content``: Archive content and send out content warnings about content that will be archived
- ``bin/empty-trash``: Delete items that have been in trash for 30 days
- ``bin/send-forced-publish-alert``: Send update to admins about content that was forced published


Processes
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- ``bin/twitter-monitor``: Monitor Twitter for mentions of your site

Changelog
=========

2.0.6 (2017-01-18)
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- Fix logged in event not recorder in the audit log correctly
[vangheem]


2.0.5 (2017-01-18)
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New:

- Add new JSON feed type
[vangheem]

Fixes:

- Fix parsing querylisting selected-year query
[vangheem]

- Fix parsing querylisting Title/SearchableText query
[vangheem]

2.0.4 (2017-01-09)
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- add rocket chat integration
[sam schwartz]

- fix issue where password reset wasn't sticking
[vangheem]

- make sure logout page shows login form
[vangheem]

- add clean-drafts script
[vangheem]

- add ping draft view so that the clean-drafts script knows not to clean a potentially
active draft
[vangheem]

2.0.3 (2016-12-20)
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- Be able to pass in a site object to the render_content_core function for
layout aware items
[vangheem]


2.0.2 (2016-12-14)
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- build resources
[vangheem]

2.0.1 (2016-12-14)
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- fix ipod/ipad safari video background image issue
[robzonenet]


2.0.0 (2016-12-07)
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- Initial public release

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