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.

Set-up

• Install django CMS by hand

Using core functionality

• Use placeholders outside the CMS
• Serve multiple languages
• Work with templates
• Manage caching
• Enable frontend editing for Page and Django models
• Create sitemaps
• Manage Page Types

Creating new functionality

• Create plugins
• Create apphooks
• Manage complex apphook configuration
• Extend the Toolbar
• Customise navigation menus
• Create content creation wizards
• Extend Page & Title models
• Test your extensions

Contributing

• Contribute a patch