Recent Items Portlet viewable by anonymous users Plone 4
his simple hack makes the Recent Items portlet viewable for non-logged in users rather then the default of only being viewable to logged in, non-anonymous users.
This still works, tested with Plone 4.1.7. Keep in mind, a buildout run or upgrade will likely require re-implementing this simple tweak.
Plone 4.1.7
Find <plone-instance>/buildout-cache/eggs/plone.app.portlets-2.1.7-py2.6.egg/plone/app/portlets/portlets/
Edit the file recent.py (bold text is the part to change)
@property
def available(self):
return len(self._data())!=0
You may need to restart your Plone instance for this change to appear.
Enjoy!