A tree based django CMS application
This Django CMS enable you to create and administrate hierarchical pages in a simple and powerful way.
Django page CMS is based around a placeholders concept. A placeholder is special template tag that you use in your page templates. Every time you add a placeholder in your template a field dynamically appears in the page admin.
Demo
This admin interface is no up to date, but could give you an idea of what the software is doing:
- admin : http://pagesdemo.piquadrat.ch/admin/
- frontend : http://pagesdemo.piquadrat.ch/pages/
Key features
- Automatic creation of localized placeholders (content area) in admin by adding placeholders tags into page templates.
- Django admin application integration.
- Multilingual support.
- Rich Text Editors are directly available.
- Page can be moved in the tree in a visual way.
- The tree can be expanded/collapsed. A cookie remember your preferences.
- Possibility to specify a different page URL for each language.
- The frontend example provide a basic "edit in place" feature.
- Directory-like page hierarchy (page can have the same name if they are not in the same directory)
- Every page can have multiple alias URLs. It's especially useful to migrate websites.
- Possibility to integrate 3th party apps
Other features
Here is the list of features you can enable/disable:
- Revisions.
- Image placeholder.
- Support for future publication start/end date.
- Inherited page permissions.
- Grant all rights to a user.
- Grant rights on a page only.
- Grant rights on a page hierarchy.
- Inherited templates.
- Page redirection to another page.
- Page tagging.
- User input sanitizer (to avoid XSS).
- Sites framework
Dependencies & Compatibility
- Django 1.1.1, Django 1.0 with older release (1.0.5)
- Python 2.3.
- django-mptt
- django-tagging (if PAGE_TAGGING = True)
- html5lib (if PAGE_SANITIZE_USER_INPUT = True)
- django-tinymce (if PAGE_TINYMCE = True)
- Django page CMS is shipped with jQuery.
- Django page CMS works well with django-staticfiles
- Compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, some issues are known with Oracle
Help and documentation
Or post something into the Google Group
Test it
To test this CMS checkout the code with subversion :
svn checkout http://django-page-cms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-page-cms
And then, run the development server :
cd example/ python manage.py syncdb python manage.py build_media python manage.py manage.py runserver
Django Page CMS try to keep the code as stable as possible. The test coverage is higher than 80% and we try to keep it this way. To run the test suite:
python setup.py test
If you have the special page permission system enabled and you are not admin, you must create a PagePermission object with all rights assigned to your user. After that you will be able to create pages.
How to contribute
Please create a clone on github:
http://github.com/batiste/django-page-cms
Handling images
Django page CMS include a image placeholder for basic needs. For a complete file browser you could use:
Translations
This application is available in english, german, french, spanish, danish and russian.
