To kick off you will need a working Plone 3 installation, we've not tested anything before 3.0.3, so if you are having problems on an earlier version, first thing to do is upgrade. If you're on a later version, please see the tracker.

I'm not completely sure what the dependencies are, there shouldn't be any, however if you experience problems these are the additional modules I have installed;

• ATBackRef
• ATReferenceBrowserWidget
• ATVocabularyManager
• CompoundField
• ColorField
• PloneNiftyCorners

If anyone finds any other specific dependancies they think should be listed, please let us know by emailing support@encryptec.net.

Installing the Package

Download the latest version of PloneRSS by clicking here.

Move to the Products folder on your server and type;

tar xvfj <path_to_downloaded_file>
chown <zope_user>:<zope_group> PloneRSS

Substitute in the names of the file you downloaded and the Unix user/group id's the server runs as.

Configuring Plone

Now you will need to restart your Zope server for the new software to be recognised. When you've done this, go to your home page and log in as a user with Manager privileges. Click on Site Setup, then Add/Remove software. You should see "PloneRSS" as a package available on the left of the screen. Tick the box next to PloneRSS, then click the install button at the foot of the page.

You should now be ready to start RSS feeds to the system, don't forget to add an RSS portlet or you're not going to see too much. Click on the "manage portlets" link at the foot of the page, select "RSS News" from the drop down menu, then complete the form. Note that "RSS Feed" is a built in feature of Plone 3, not sure exactly how it works as I've failed to make it do anything so far.

See the user documentation with regards to adding news feeds, then have a look at the System Administration documentation about how to make your feeds update automatically using CRON.