Speakerdeck content in Plone (@plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck)
January 27, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Add decks from Speakerdeck in your Plone site
โจ Features
๐ฅ Watch Demo Video

- Embed Speakerdeck presentations: Add a Volto block that allows you to embed presentations hosted on Speakerdeck directly into your Plone site pages.
- Easy integration: Simply paste the Speakerdeck URL and the block handles the embedding automatically.
- Responsive display: Presentations are displayed responsively, adapting to different screen sizes.
Note: For interactive examples and detailed documentation, check out the Storybook.
๐ฆ Installation
Installing @plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck on your project requires Volto 18 or above.
Adding this package as a dependency
To add @plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck to your project, locate your project's policy package (typically found in the packages folder) and edit its package.json file.
Add @plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck under dependencies:
"dependencies": {
"@plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck": "*"
}
Then add @plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck to the addons array:
"addons": [
"@plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck"
]
Running the installation
After adding @plone-collective/volto-speakerdeck to your project, re-run the installation with:
make install
And start the project with:
make start
โ Test installation
Visit http://localhost:3000/ in a browser, login, and check the Speakerdeck block is available.
๐ ๏ธ Development
The development of this add-on is done in isolation using a new approach using pnpm workspaces and latest mrs-developer and other Volto core improvements.
For this reason, it only works with pnpm and Volto 18 (currently in alpha).
Prerequisites โ
- An operating system that runs all the requirements mentioned.
- nvm
- Node.js and pnpm 24
- Make
- Git
- Docker (optional)
Installation ๐ง
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Clone this repository, then change your working directory.
git clone git@github.com:collective/volto-speakerdeck.git cd volto-speakerdeck -
Install this code base.
make install
Make convenience commands
Run make help to list the available commands.
help Show this help
install Installs the add-on in a development environment
start Starts Volto, allowing reloading of the add-on during development
build Build a production bundle for distribution of the project with the add-on
i18n Sync i18n
ci-i18n Check if i18n is not synced
format Format codebase
lint Lint, or catch and remove problems, in code base
release Release the add-on on npmjs.org
release-dry-run Dry-run the release of the add-on on npmjs.org
test Run unit tests
ci-test Run unit tests in CI
backend-docker-start Starts a Docker-based backend for development
storybook-start Start Storybook server on port 6006
storybook-build Build Storybook
acceptance-frontend-dev-start Start acceptance frontend in development mode
acceptance-frontend-prod-start Start acceptance frontend in production mode
acceptance-backend-start Start backend acceptance server
ci-acceptance-backend-start Start backend acceptance server in headless mode for CI
acceptance-test Start Cypress in interactive mode
ci-acceptance-test Run cypress tests in headless mode for CI
๐ง Development environment set up
Install package requirements.
make install
๐ Start developing
Start the backend.
make backend-docker-start
In a separate terminal session, start the frontend.
make start
๐งน Lint code
Run ESlint, Prettier, and Stylelint in analyze mode.
make lint
๐ Format code
Run ESlint, Prettier, and Stylelint in fix mode.
make format
๐ i18n
Extract the i18n messages to locales.
make i18n
๐งช Unit tests
Run unit tests.
make test
๐ค Run Cypress tests
Run each of these steps in separate terminal sessions.
In the first session, start the frontend in development mode.
make acceptance-frontend-dev-start
In the second session, start the backend acceptance server.
make acceptance-backend-start
In the third session, start the Cypress interactive test runner.
make acceptance-test
๐ License
The project is licensed under the MIT license.
Credits and acknowledgements ๐
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