contrib packages

Django aims to follow Python’s “batteries included” philosophy. It ships with a variety of extra, optional tools that solve common web development problems.

This code lives in django/contrib in the Django distribution. This document gives a rundown of the packages in contrib, along with any dependencies those packages have.

Including contrib packages in INSTALLED_APPS

For most of these add-ons – specifically, the add-ons that include either models or template tags – you’ll need to add the package name (e.g., 'django.contrib.redirects') to your INSTALLED_APPS setting and rerun manage.py migrate.

• The Django admin site
• django.contrib.auth
• The contenttypes framework
• The flatpages app
• GeoDjango
• django.contrib.humanize
• The messages framework
• django.contrib.postgres
• The redirects app
• The sitemap framework
• The “sites” framework
• The staticfiles app
• The syndication feed framework

admin

The automatic Django administrative interface. For more information, see Tutorial 2 and the admin documentation.

Requires the auth and contenttypes contrib packages to be installed.

auth

Django’s authentication framework.

See User authentication in Django.

contenttypes

A light framework for hooking into “types” of content, where each installed Django model is a separate content type.

See the contenttypes documentation.

flatpages

A framework for managing “flat” HTML content in a database.

See the flatpages documentation.

Requires the sites contrib package to be installed as well.

gis

A world-class geospatial framework built on top of Django, that enables storage, manipulation and display of spatial data.

See the GeoDjango documentation for more.

humanize

A set of Django template filters useful for adding a “human touch” to data.

See the humanize documentation.

messages

A framework for storing and retrieving temporary cookie- or session-based messages

See the messages documentation.

postgres

A collection of PostgreSQL specific features.

See the contrib.postgres documentation.

redirects

A framework for managing redirects.

See the redirects documentation.

sessions

A framework for storing data in anonymous sessions.

See the sessions documentation.

sites

A light framework that lets you operate multiple websites off of the same database and Django installation. It gives you hooks for associating objects to one or more sites.

See the sites documentation.

sitemaps

A framework for generating Google sitemap XML files.

See the sitemaps documentation.

syndication

A framework for generating syndication feeds, in RSS and Atom, quite easily.

See the syndication documentation.

Other add-ons

If you have an idea for functionality to include in contrib, let us know! Code it up, and post it to the django-users mailing list.