Avoid creation of Plone's default content

Question

I'm working in a project that creates a Plone 4.3 site that installs plone.app.contenttypes as it's default content types. After site creation I see all default content (the front page and some folders and collections) that are still Archetypes-based content.

I want to avoid the creation of that content and I want to know if there's a better way of getting rid of it that manually erasing it in a post install step.

I need an empty site by default.

Answer 1

You need to setup the Plone Site the following way:

from Products.CMFPlone.factory import addPloneSite
from Products.CMFPlone.factory import _DEFAULT_PROFILE


default_profiles =('plonetheme.classic:default', 'plonetheme.sunburst:default')

return addPloneSite(
    app,
    site_id,
    title=title,
    profile_id=_DEFAULT_PROFILE,
    extension_ids=default_profiles,
    setup_content=False,
    default_language='en')

The important part is setup_content=False.

There's no initial content, no portlet... nothing.

You may check this full working example in ftw.inflator -> https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.inflator/blob/00b8b984e7dc1052a7fb94d2e82455a66b271da7/ftw/inflator/bundle.py#L23