Django Loose CMS

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Django Loose CMS is a simple cms based on django framework.

Features

Hierarchical pages
Template pages
SEO friendly URLs
Build bootstrap grid
Edit stylesheet of the plugins (no fully functional)
File manager with custom model field

Requirements

Loose CMS requires:

Django version 1.8
Python 2.6 or 2.7
django-admin-bootstrapped
django-taggit
django-ckeditor

You should install manually:

unidecode: if your tags wan in non-latin format.

Quick Start

Installation via startproject template (quick way)

Make the project folder:
```
mkdir project_name
cd project_name
```
Create the virtualenv of python:
```
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
```
Install django package (version 1.8):
```
pip install django
```

Create the django project with custom template:

django-admin.py startproject <project_name> --template=https://github.com/lefterisnik/django-template/archive/master.zip
cd <project_name>

Install the requirements:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Sync database:
```
python manage.py migrate
```

Create one superuser account:
```
python manage.py createsuperuser
```
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to start playing with the cms

Normal installation (slow way)

Following this way you must edit settings.py file to provide some settings.

Using virtualenv

Make the project folder:
```
mkdir project_name
cd project_name
```
Create the virtualenv of python:
```
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
```
Installation via pip:
```
pip install https://github.com/lefterisnik/django-loose-cms/archive/master.zip
```
The above command will download and setup all the requirements including the django.

Create your django project:

django-admin startproject myproject
cd myproject

Add "loosecms" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting at settings.py file like this:
```
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'loosecms',
)
```
Add "bootstrap_admin" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this before 'django.contrib.admin':
```
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'bootstrap_admin',
    'django.contrib.admin',
)
```
Include the loosecms URLconf in your project urls.py like this:
```
url(r'^', include('loosecms.urls')),
```
Loose CMS handles all urls.
Run python manage.py migrate to create the loosecms models.
Run python manage.py createsuperuser to create a superuser account.
Run development server python manage.py runserver and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to start playing with the cms.

Using system python

Make the project folder:
```
mkdir project_name
cd project_name
```

Installation via pip:
```
sudo pip install https://github.com/lefterisnik/django-loose-cms/archive/master.zip
```
The above command will download and setup all the requirements including the django.

Create your django project:

django-admin startproject myproject
cd myproject

Add "loosecms" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting at settings.py file like this:
```
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'loosecms',
)
```
Add "bootstrap_admin" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this before 'django.contrib.admin':
```
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'bootstrap_admin',
    'django.contrib.admin',
)
```
Include the loosecms URLconf in your project urls.py like this:
```
url(r'^', include('loosecms.urls')),
```
Loose CMS handles all urls.
Run python manage.py migrate to create the loosecms models.
Run python manage.py createsuperuser to create a superuser account.
Run development server python manage.py runserver and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to start playing with the cms.

Enable translation

You can enable multi language processing adding in your root urlconf (urls.py) the following code:

...
from loosecms.conf.urls.i18n import simple_i18n_patterns

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]

urlpatterns += simple_i18n_patterns(
    url(r'^', include('loosecms.urls')),
)

and adding the 'SimpleLocaleMiddleware' middleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'loosecms.middleware.locale.SimpleLocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    ...
)

Restart development server python manage.py runserver and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to start playing with the cms.

Plugins

Some plugins:

lefterisnik/django-loose-cms