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Django-Fluent CMS
Diederik van der Boor DjangoConEU 17-05-2013
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An introduction...
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Modularity in 2008
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State of Django
App Simple
admin?
Frontend
editing?
Plugins? Caching Modules Scale
Django CMS A bit X X A bit 1 app M-L
FeinCMS A bit X A bit 1 app S-L
Fiber n/a X - - - S-M
Ella - X X 1 core app,
fixed workflow?
M-L
Merengue - X X All in one? ?
Philo - 1 app ?
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Excersice: how many apps?
Given these blog features...
– Post entries
– Post contents
– Comments
– Categories
– Tags
– RSS syndication
– Publishing API
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Design goals
– Designer friendly
– Make any visual design editable in a CMS
– Developer friendly
– Good API's, docs
– Only install what you use
– Usable for small and large
– Good UI to replace WordPress use cases
– Customization support like Umbraco
– Proper caching and speed!
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The page contents
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django-fluent-contents
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In your model!
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Text
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Shared content
(blog sidebar, footer, ..)
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A lot of plugins!
– Text
– Picture
– Markup (reStructuredText, Markdown, Textile)
– Shared content
– Forms
– Google docs viewer (PDF, .doc)
– Twitter feeds
– Code (Pygments)
– Gist
– Iframe
– Raw HTML (embed codes)
– Commentsarea
– Disqus area
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The page tree
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django-fluent-pages
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Page node types!
– Text page
– Redirect page
Custom:
– Subsection node?
– Blog category?
– Webshop article?
– Portfolio page?
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django-polymorphic-tree
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No content
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Redirect page
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Flat page
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Custom: portfolio page
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django-fluent-dashboard
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Separate your apps, clone the code :)
Twitter: @vdboor, @edoburu
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