Show item count on homepage

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I have following folders in my site with some items:

Books/
Music/
Videos/

I would like to display the items count on the home page thus:

Books    Music       Videos 
10           5              12

What's the best way to achieve this using TTW plone customization. Thanks!

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Only the item count (and not any of the items)?

If you want to show the item count and the items (and search/filter functionality) I would suggest collective.collectionfilter .

If you just want to show the item count, I would register a viewlet just for the front page.

To do it TTW I think you need to 'do much more work' . You could do it with diazo and / or within the theme. But as said: Feels overly complicated compared to making a viewlet with plonecli (bobtemplates)

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Thank you @espenmn I'll try to register a viewlet just for front page and also with diazo theme.

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If you register a viewlet, you might not need to 'do anything diazo'.

PS: You should defently look at plonecli. It will make almost all the code for you. GitHub - plone/plonecli: Plone Command Line Client - for creating and working with custom add-ons and themes

Also: Search this forum for plonecli, a lot has been explained before.

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