django-mini-cms

The minimalist cms, with four plugable core modules. That are

• (basic implementation done) A toolbar for your frontend, allows login/logout, and model editing directly in the frontend
• (to be done) A dynamic content framework, for hierarchical content on any model, always based on the same content types
• (to be done) A page tree module, for building, yes, page trees
• (to be done, last) A publisher module, for adding a basic live/draft version separation, where the draft can then be published to live. for any model that wants it

All three are optional, whereas the toolbar is probably needed in most cases. This project is inspired by django-cms, but tries to avoid any magic and over complex things.

Installation

To get the latest stable release from PyPi (not yet!)

pip install django-minimalist-cms

Add your needed modules to to your INSTALLED_APPS. See "Usage" for further details.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'minimalist_cms.cms_toolbar',
    'minimalist_cms.cms_pagetree',
    'minimalist_cms.cms_content',
    'minimalist_cms.cms_publisher',
)

Usage

CMS Toolbar

Besides adding minimalist_cms.cms_toolbar to installed apps, you'll need to do the following:

Add the toolbar in your html

{% load cms_toolbar_tags %}
{% cms_toolbar %}

This will show the toolbar handle on the left side of the browser. If you want to add direct edit links, for your objects, add something like this:

{% cms_toolbar_edit_link object_to_edit 'optional edit link text' %}

This will open the toolbar iframe, with the admin change view for the object_to_edit. Edit links will only be visible when in "Edit Mode".

# This is the same, but for creation of new instances
{% cms_toolbar_new_link object_or_class_to_create_new_instance "optional create link text" %}

Configure the toolbar menu

Use the setting CMS_TOOLBAR to define the class that should be your toolbar.

CMS_TOOLBAR = 'yourapp.toolbar.CMSToooooolbarrrr'

It's very basic, looking at the following example and the resulting output, should make it clear:

from django.urls import reverse

class CMSToolbar(object):

    def get_menu(self, request):
        return [
            # name in handle
            {'name': 'Admin', 'menu': [
                    # menu section title
                    {'name': 'Admininstration', 'items': [
                            {
                                # one link in menu
                                'link': reverse('admin:sites_site_changelist'),
                                'name': ("Sites"),
                            },
                            {
                                'link': reverse('admin:auth_user_changelist'),
                                'name': ("Users"),
                            },
                        ]
                    },
                ]
            },
        ]

This is the basic toolbar, when you dont define an own one. Defined in minimalist_cms/cms_toolbar/cms_toolbar.py.

Toolbar settings

CMS_TOOLBAR as explained just above.

CMS_TOOLBAR_USE_EDIT_MODE use edit mode feature. Defaults to True