Is there a way to find out if a Django site is built with Django CMS looking trough the source code?

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Brandon

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Jul 4, 2018, 1:00:13 PM7/4/18
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There's a site that a friend needed looking into, He's just the Marketing guy so he wouldn't know for sure.
I get the feeling the site was created with Django and NOT Django CMS, is there any way to tell without having access to the back-end?
Thank you in advance.

Carlo Ascani

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Jul 4, 2018, 1:46:44 PM7/4/18
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Il giorno mer 4 lug 2018 alle ore 19:00 Brandon <miker...@gmail.com>
ha scritto:
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> There's a site that a friend needed looking into, He's just the Marketing guy so he wouldn't know for sure.
> I get the feeling the site was created with Django and NOT Django CMS, is there any way to tell without having access to the back-end?
> Thank you in advance.

Not sure but...
try visit /admin and see if the login page looks like the Django one,
or the django-cms one


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Brandon

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Jul 4, 2018, 3:51:03 PM7/4/18
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Hello Carlo,

How can you tell the difference?
Unless I am looking at the google images incorrectly, they look very similar.

Here's the image from the Django CMS documentation:
http://docs.django-cms.org/en/release-2.4.x/getting_started/tutorial.html











Thanks!

Brandon

Jason

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Jul 5, 2018, 7:25:50 AM7/5/18
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The CMS section in that screenshot  is a clue.  

Chematronix Quarantamila

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Jul 5, 2018, 8:56:20 PM7/5/18
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Like Jason says, you can look for the CMS module in the admin, like in the image you posted (though it's called Django CMS and not just CMS in recent versions, and my setup has more plugins/options and a prettier theme), or for occurrences of "aldryn", "divio" or "cms-plugin" in the HTML or CSS of the pages.

Brandon

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Jul 6, 2018, 12:12:50 AM7/6/18
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Thanks guys you guys are super awesome!! Really appreciate you.
It looks like it's just DJango.

Curious how involved is installing Django CMS?
Is it relatively fast, as a plugin install or is there are lot more to it?
Also concerned if it would affect the Maria dB or any contnet.

TimT Vogt

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Jul 6, 2018, 5:02:52 AM7/6/18
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Django cms has drag an drop backend 

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