django-picocms

This simple CMS can help organise your models into categories and adds HTMLFields + image upload capabilities.

Typical usage :

You need to organise various models in several categories/sub categories via the django admin.

Installation :

• install with pip install git+https://github.com/revolunet/django-picocms.git
• add picocms to your INSTALLED_APPS
• include picocms urls to your urls.py if you want to publish your models

in urls.py :

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'', include('picocms.urls'))
)

• create your models based on the CMSModel abstract class

• register your models for the admin :

in admin.py :

admin.site.register(MyModel, picocms.admin.CMSModelAdmin)

• you'll need django-mptt

What you'll get for free :

• Unlimited categories to organise your models with a simple AdminTreeView for categories (django-mptt based and no d&d yet)
• CMSModel abstract fields : active, anonymous_access, created, modified... see below
• Easy instance rendering. Juste define modelName.html template and your instance will use it to render itself with the permalink.
• Basic HTMLField and HTMLBigField for your models with tinyMCE
• Chosen advanced select field for CMSModel foreignkeys in the admin
• Ability to insert files in HTMLFields based on custom CMS File Models (eg: images)
• South support

When you inherit from a CMSModel, you get :

• active attribute (boolean)
• anonymous_access attribute (boolean)
• created date/time of creation
• modified date/time of creation
• modified_by user who created/edited the entry
• category a MPTT category
• position enable manual ordering
• slug slug field for your urls
• title a title field
• CMSMeta options:
  • root_category : when editing this object in the admin, categories will be this category or its descendants. Specify a string like news or news/frontpage.
  • image_model: specify any model with a file attribute that will be used for the image picker in the admin.
• publics manager : will return all active items, filtered by root_category if any

Todo :

• move up/down entry in the TreeAdmin
• better admin UI for categories/entries management
• template tags for HTML fragment
• move to CBV style (or not)

Licence :

• This code is licensed under the BSD licence, and tinyMCE has LGPL licence