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
• Namespaced Apphooks
  • Basic concepts
  • step-by-step implementation
• Working with templates
  • static_placeholder
  • CMS_TEMPLATE
  • render_model
• Extending the page & title models
  • Title vs Page extensions
  • Implement a basic extension
  • Using extensions
  • Complete 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
  • Get started
  • Adding content to a placeholder
• Caching
  • Set-up
• Frontend editing for Page and Django models
  • Template tags
  • Page titles edit
  • Page menu edit
  • Editing ‘ordinary’ Django models
  • Filters
  • Context variable
• Sitemap Guide
  • Sitemap
  • Configuration
  • django.contrib.sitemaps
• Page Types
  • Creating Page Types
  • Managing Page Types
  • Selecting a Page Type
• Content creation wizards
  • Create a content-creation wizard
• Contributing a patch
  • The basics
  • How to write a test
  • Submitting your code