Introduction

Singing & Dancing is the next generation newsletter Product for Plone. It’s an out of the box solution that works without modification for most of your use cases. And should you find something that Singing & Dancing can’t do, it’s built to be easily extended via plug-ins using the Zope 3 Component Architecture.

This is documentation version: 0.9a, for collective.singing 0.6.15 and collective.dancing 0.9.0.

Features

Modern and extensible

Singing & Dancing builds on the latest and greatest efforts in the Zope and Plone world. It makes heavy use of the excellent z3c.form library and the Zope 3 Component Architecture. This allows you to easily plug in and extend Singing & Dancing to fit your needs.

Well tested

An extensive suite of automated tests make Singing & Dancing exceptionally stable and reliable. We currently have 200+ tests. Singing & Dancing is not gonna leave you in the lurch!

Fully managable through the Plone interface

Singing & Dancing is fully usable out of the box. An extensive set of forms reachable through the configuration panel let you as the user configure many details of your newsletters, like when they’re sent (periodically or manually), what is sent (through the use of the Smart Folder interface, or manually), and to whom.

Subscriptions

Singing & Dancing uses confirmed subscription, i.e. subscribers receive an e-mail to confirm their subscription. Users can subscribe via a standard subscription form that lists all available newsletters in the site, or through individual subscription forms, e.g. in portlets.

Automatic newsletters

You can both send newsletters by creating a Page in Plone and send that as a newsletter, or have automatic sending out of newsletters regularily by collecting for example News items in the site.

Contact us

If you have a question, or comment, get in touch with us! Our mailing list is a good place to do so. If you find a bug, please let us know. We also have an IRC channel called #singing-dancing on Freenode.

Donate

Developing software as Open Source can be a thankless task sometimes. If you’re a happy user of Singing & Dancing, and you’d like to show your appreciation, you might want to donate via PayPal.

There’s other ways to contribute to the project if you’re not a developer; one is to post a message to the mailing list describing any successes or problems that you have with the software. That’s the only way we can know if S&D is working correctly for you. Another is to add a screenshot to the sites using S&D.