Like any good spring cleaning, it's a good idea to take a periodic look at the content items that populate your Plone website. You may find that there are old News Items, Events, Pages, Images, or other types of content that you aren't using any more. While your site visitors may not be aware of the volume of old content on your site, it can make simple site maintenance a real chore.

You should have as many content items as possible organized into folders. If you have more than about 20 or so items in the root directory, you probably have old or unfiled items in there. For starters, always be sure that your Images are in the Images folder, News Items are in the News folder, and so on.

A disorganized filesystem is confusing to look at and navigate around in. A new staff member would have a hard time learning how to update content on a site like this because they wouldn't know which content items were important and which ones were not.

Another common cause of disorganization are content items that are empty or blank. You may have folders that are empty, and/or pages that are blank, or news and events that are old and could be deleted. If several people are posting content to your website, you'll probably have more than a few of these. Weeding out unused content items periodically will make managing your website a bit easier.

Stay on top of your content, especially orphaned content items. Take an hour or so every six to twelve months to review the state of your site's content. Remember that you can easily copy and paste content items into folders to keep your Contents view uncluttered.