Django Fluent CMS - DjangoCon EU 2013

Lightning talk at DjangoConEU 2013

The main thing showing here, is how to build a system composed of many apps - not putting everything together in a single app. This way, django-fluent is a "pick which parts you like"-kind of CMS. You can just use the parts you like, and leave the rest out.

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1. Django-Fluent CMS Diederik van der Boor DjangoConEU 17-05-2013
2. An introduction...
3. Modularity in 2008
4. 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 ?
5. Excersice: how many apps? Given these blog features... – Post entries – Post contents – Comments – Categories – Tags – RSS syndication – Publishing API
6. 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!
7. The page contents
8. django-fluent-contents
9. In your model!
10. Text
11. Shared content (blog sidebar, footer, ..)
12. 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
13. The page tree
14. django-fluent-pages
15. Page node types! – Text page – Redirect page Custom: – Subsection node? – Blog category? – Webshop article? – Portfolio page?
16. django-polymorphic-tree
18. Redirect page
19. Flat page
20. Custom: portfolio page
21. django-fluent-dashboard
22. Separate your apps, clone the code :) Twitter: @vdboor, @edoburu django-fluent.org django-fluent.org