README.rst

django CMS

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

Features

• hierarchical pages
• extensive built-in support for multilingual websites
• multi-site support
• draft/publish workflows
• version control
• a sophisticated publishing architecture, that's also usable in your own applications
• frontend content editing
• a hierarchical content structure for nested plugins
• an extensible navigation system that your own applications can hook into
• SEO-friendly URLs
• designed to integrate thoroughly into other applications

Developing applications that integrate with and take advantage of django CMS features is easy and well-documented.

More information on our website.

Requirements

See the Python/Django requirements for the current release version in our documentation.

See the installation how-to guide for an overview of some other requirements and dependencies of the current release

Documentation

We maintain documentation for several versions of the project. Key versions are:

• stable (default), for the current release version
• latest, representing the latest build of the release-3.4.x branch
• develop, representing the latest build of the develop branch

For more information about our branch policy, see Branches.

Our documentation is hosted courtesy of Read the Docs.

Tutorial

http://docs.django-cms.org/en/latest/introduction/index.html

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) $ mkdir myproject && cd myproject
(env) $ djangocms -f -p . my_demo
(env) $ python manage.py

Getting Help

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

If you don't have an IRC client, you can join our IRC channel using the KiwiIRC web client, which works pretty well.

Commercial support

This project is backed by Divio. If you need help implementing or hosting django CMS, please contact us: [email protected].

Credits

• Includes icons from FamFamFam.
• Python tree engine powered by django-treebeard.
• JavaScript tree in admin uses jsTree.
• Many thanks to the over 515 contributors to the django CMS!