Is there a WYSIWYG app I can use for an inherited Django created website?

[DjamgoNewbie]

I have worked with WordPress but I inherited an already made website built with Django. Is there a WYSIWYG app that I can use to update/edit the Django site without me having to learn Django /Python first? The updates/corrections to the website are time sensitive.

[Anthony Flury]

Basically no. 

While there might be a WYSIWYG editor for the templates (which are basically HTML, JS and CSS with an embedded python like script) they will only edit the html within the template file and you won’t see the auto generated html for the individual Django fields, or the other Django constructs within the template.

Django is also a lot more complex than a wordpress - WP tends to be static pages (I have never seen a WP page which fetched data from a database; Django web site are often a mix between all static pages (like the welcome page) and pages where most/ all of the content is dynamic with data extracted live from a database. There is often a certain level of processing of the data before it gets displayed on the page - and that is where Python comes in. 

I think you need to learn some HTML, CSS (and Python & Django); even adding a new static web page to an existing site requires you to understand something of the Django framework (so that you know how page requests get translated into views on templates). 

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On 26 May 2018, at 17:34, DjamgoNewbie <miker...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have worked with WordPress but I inherited an already made website built with Django. Is there a WYSIWYG app that I can use to update/edit the Django site without me having to learn Django /Python first? The updates/corrections to the website are time sensitive.

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[Mike Dewhirst]

What does the website do for the visitors/users?

Inheriting a site is great fun if you are getting paid. If so maybe someone here can help if you offer something.

Otherwise, run pip freeze to see what apps have been installed and that together with the answer to the use-case question might (or might not) be enough to suggest a timely approach.

Mike

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