How-to guides

These guides presuppose some familiarity with django CMS. They cover some of the same territory as the Tutorials, but in more detail.

• Installing django CMS by hand
  • Requirements
  • Installing
  • Databases
  • Configuration and setup
• Custom Plugins
  • Why would you need to write a plugin?
  • Overview
  • The simplest plugin
  • Troubleshooting
  • Storing configuration
  • Advanced
• Customising navigation menus
  • Menus
  • Attach Menus
  • Navigation Modifiers
• Apphooks
  • Apphook menus
  • Attaching an application multiple times
  • Apphook permissions
  • Automatically restart server on apphook changes
• Working with templates
  • static_placeholder
  • CMS_TEMPLATE
  • render_model
• Extending the page & title models
  • What’s the difference?
  • Hooking the extension to the admin site
  • Adding a Toolbar Menu Item for your Page extension
  • Using extensions with menus
  • Using extensions in templates
  • Handling relations
  • Simplified Toolbar API
• Extending the Toolbar
  • Registering
  • Adding items
  • Modifying an existing toolbar
  • Frontend
• Using South with django CMS
  • Installation
  • Basic usage
  • More information about South
• Testing Your Extensions
  • Testing Apps
  • Testing Plugins
• Placeholders outside the CMS
  • Quickstart
  • Adding content to a placeholder
• Caching
  • Setup
• Frontend editing for Page and Django models
  • Templatetags
  • Page titles edit
  • Page menu edit
  • Editing ‘ordinary’ Django models
  • Filters
  • Context variable
• Sitemap Guide
  • Sitemap
  • Configuration
  • django.contrib.sitemaps