Re: Choosing a Django-based CMS

[Stephen McDonald]

On Aug 5, 5:30 pm, Sean O'Brian <chuw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm using Django CMS for a few of weeks and I like it. But there's one
> problem, which I already ran into: I can't extend Page model easily.
> I found one tutorial<http://ilian.i-n-i.org/extending-django-cms-page-model/>,
> but this not seem to be very developer-friendly and author said that it's
> produces overwhelming SQL queries.
> There's a lot of comparisons in the web, but most of them are old, and as I
> noticed on github, the main competitors (FeinCMS and Mezzazine) was
> actively developed last months.
> Can you advice a mature and extensible CMS? The main requirement is
> extending pages, for avatars for example.

Hi Sean,

I'm the lead developer of Mezzanine. I can't offer too much of a
comparison as I'm only very familiar with Mezzanine itself, but
extending Mezzanine's Page model is a foundational concept in
Mezzanine - one that it's specifically designed to do. Have a read
here for more info:

http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/content-architecture.html#creating-custom-content-types

If you have any further questions about Mezzanine, please hit up the
mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users

Cheers,
Steve

[Gabriel - Iulian Dumbrava]

I did use FeinCMS to extend the Page model and it works pretty well.

Gabriel

duminică, 5 august 2012, 10:30:57 UTC+3, Sean O'Brian a scris:

Hi!

I'm using Django CMS for a few of weeks and I like it. But there's one problem, which I already ran into: I can't extend Page model easily.

I found one tutorial, but this not seem to be very developer-friendly and author said that it's produces overwhelming SQL queries.

[Gour]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 00:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sean O'Brian <chu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you advice a mature and extensible CMS? The main
> requirement is extending pages, for avatars for example.

I was hoping to replace PHP sites with some web2py CMS, but at the end
have decided to go with Django and deploy Mezzanine which is really in
a good shape.


SIncerely,
Gour

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[Sean O'Brian]

Thanks all.

As I get, I should try both Mezzazine and FeinCMS.

May be they're have another advantages and disadvantages.

[Matthias Kestenholz]

Hi Sean

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the main developers of FeinCMS.)

The best place to ask questions about FeinCMS would be the
django-feincms mailing list. It's true that development isn't very
active this month (yet), a lot happened since the last release though.
You can see the breakdown here:

http://feincms-django-cms.readthedocs.org/en/next/releases/1.7.html

Development happens on the `next` branch in the github repository.
`master` normally does not get much activity since `master` tracks the
official maintenance branch (v1.6.x at the moment).


Thanks,
Matthias

[Thomas Guettler]

Am 05.08.2012 09:30, schrieb Sean O'Brian:
> Hi!
> I'm using Django CMS for a few of weeks and I like it. But there's one problem, which I already ran into: I can't extend
> Page model easily.

> I found one tutorial <http://ilian.i-n-i.org/extending-django-cms-page-model/>, but this not seem to be very

> developer-friendly and author said that it's produces overwhelming SQL queries.
> There's a lot of comparisons in the web, but most of them are old, and as I noticed on github, the main competitors
> (FeinCMS and Mezzazine) was actively developed last months.

> Can you advice a mature and extensible CMS? The main requirement is extending pages, for avatars for example.

Django CMS is used by many people. Please explain your problem on the django-cms mailing list. I guess it can be solved
easily.

The above tutorial suggests to use an own model with a 1:1 relation-ship to the page model. I use this pattern often if
I want to extend an app. It is developer friendly and you won't notice the fact that there is one more SQL query.

Regards,
Thomas


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