PYCON UK 2014 FIRST STEPS WITH DJANGO CMS by Iacopo Spalletti @yakkys 

WHO AM I? Founder and Lead developer @NephilaIt django CMS core developer django CMS installer author 

DJANGO CMS FIRST LOOK BRIEF OVERVIEW OF DJANGO CMS FEATURES FEEL FREE TO COME TO THE BOOTH OR AT THE SPRINTS FOR MORE 

WHAT'S DJANGO CMS? 'JUST' A CMS FOR DJANGO (APPARENTLY) With a twist! 

DJANGO CMS HOW IS DIFFERENT? IT'S LIMITED (BY DESIGN) YOU CANNOT "EXTEND" A PAGE 

DJANGO CMS WHY IS THAT? WHY NOT? WE HAVE DJANGO MODELS! GOOD DJANGO CITIZEN 

DJANGO CMS CONTRIBUTING FEATURES django CMS provides features that your applications can use 

BASIC CONCEPTS PAGE PLACEHOLDER PLUGIN APPHOOK FRONTEND EDITOR 

LIVES IN A LIVE AND DRAFT VERSION DEFINED BY THE TEMPLATE APPLIED TO IT PAGE THE BUILDING BLOCK OF THE CMS 

PLACEHOLDER ACTIVE AREAS WITHIN YOUR PAGES PLUGIN CONTAINERS DEFINED IN THE TEMPLATES JUST A TEMPLATETAG 

PLACEHOLDER HOW TO DEFINE A PLACEHOLDER? {% placeholder "first_placeholder" %} 

PLACEHOLDER THERE IS MORE class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200) abstract = models.TextField() content = PlaceholderField() Composition, not inheritance 

PLUGIN Placeholder = Container Plugin = Content 

PLUGIN WHAT'S A PLUGIN? A content A bridge towards other Django applications 

PLUGIN WRITING PLUGIN IS EASY class MyPlugin(CMSPluginBase): name = _('My plugin') render_template = 'myapp/myplugin.html' 

PLUGIN 1. PLUGIN CLASS class MyPlugin(CMSPluginBase): name = _('My plugin') model = MyPluginModel render_template = 'myapp/myplugin.html' def render(self, context, instance, placeholder): newslist = News.objects.all().order_by('-date') context.update({ 'instance': instance, 'news_list': newslist[:instance.posts] }) return context Plugin = ModelAdmin + template + get_context_data 

PLUGIN 2. THE PLUGIN MODEL It's the plugin configuration class MyPluginModel(CMSPlugin): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) posts = models.PositiveIntegerField() 

PLUGIN 3. THE TEMPLATE Template is a standard Django template fragment to which the plugin generated context is provided 

APPHOOK Is a bridge between the CMS and other Django applications In rough terms, it appends the application URLConf to the page tree 

It wraps the URLCon in a class APPHOOK SOME CODE class MyApp(CMSApp): name = _("My App") urls = ["apps.my_app.urls"] menus = [MyMenu] apphook_pool.register(MyApp) 

APPHOOK THAT'S ALL :) 

FRONTEND EDITOR WARNING! IT'S ADDICTIVE! 

FRONTEND EDITOR WHAT'S IT? NEW IN DJANGO CMS 3 ADMIN OUTSIDE THE ADMIN 

FRONTEND EDITOR FOLLOW THE WHITE PONY 

FRONTEND EDITOR TOOLBAR COMPLETE SIMPLE DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZABLE 

FRONTEND EDITOR ANCHE NEI VOSTRI MODEL EVERY MODEL CAN BE FRONTEND-ENABLED {% render_model instance "abstract" %} {% render_model_block instance %}

{{ instance.title }}

{% endrender_model_block %} 

SHAMELESS PLUG! 

GRAZIE! SEE YOU TOMORROW! DJANGO CMS SPRINT And tips and support to use django CMS Iacopo Spalletti [email protected] @yakkys