marktseng / django-cms

The easy-to-use and developer-friendly CMS

django CMS

Open source enterprise content management system based on the django framework.

Features

• Hierarchical pages
• Extensive support for multilingual websites
• Multi site support
• Draft/Published workflows
• Undo/Redo
• Use the content blocks (placeholders) in your own apps (models)
• Use the content blocks (static placeholders) anywhere in your templates
• Edit content directly in the frontend on your pages
• Hierarchical content plugins (columns, style changes etc)
• Navigation rendering and extending from your apps
• SEO friendly urls
• Highly integrative into your own apps

You can define editable areas, called placeholders, in your templates which you fill with many different so called CMS content plugins. A list of all the plugins can be found here:

3rd party plugins

Should you be unable to find a suitable plugin for you needs, writing your own is very simple.

More information on our website.

Documentation

Please head over to our documentation for all the details on how to install, extend and use the django CMS.

Tutorial

https://github.com/divio/django-cms-tutorial

Quick Start

You can use the django CMS installer:

$ pip install --upgrade virtualenv
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install djangocms-installer
(env) $ djangocms -p . my_demo
(env) $ cd my_demo

Getting Help

Please head over to our IRC channel, #django-cms, on irc.freenode.net or write to our mailing list.

Credits

• Includes icons from FamFamFam.
• Python tree engine powered by django-mptt.
• Javascript tree in admin uses jsTree.
• Many thanks to the over 250 contributors to the django CMS!