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Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by jordanlev »

currysausage wrote: post #16

Off-topic, but since CMS-related submissions come up rather scarcely nowadays: What are some promising, modern Web Content Management Systems for medium-sized sites that I should look at, especially if I like the clean, modular design of ProcessWire very much, but not its implementation (too slow even with caching enabled)? I don't care about the programming language (PHP is fine, so is anything else). What I do care…

Two CMS's that are very good in this regard, but not open source (and not free) are:

* [Craft CMS](https://craftcms.com/)

* [Perch Runway](https://grabaperch.com/products/runway)

Both are $200~300 per site, and like ProcessWire they are completely markup-agnostic and give you total flexibility to define your fields however you like.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by DanieleProcida »

JonAtkinson wrote: post #38

As another poster points out, there aren't a lot of CMS-related posts on HN, but I'd like to share a little of our experience with Django CMS. I've been using Django CMS since early in the 2.x releases (the earliest Django CMS site I still have the code for was using 2.1.0.beta2), and since then we have developed approximately 80 Django CMS sites; with traffic ranging from a few hundred hits a month, to our largest w…

Thanks Jon, we hope to be around in 5 years too!

It's always going to be an open-source standalone CMS, and nothing will change that. Even an Aldryn-based django CMS site can be made into a standalone site very easily, so django CMS will never depend on Aldryn in any way.

We're always trying to find the right balance for the way django CMS is developed. The fact that there is a team dedicated to it at Divio is what has made this step forward possible in a way that would not have been in the past.

We also continue to rely on community input and effort, and that's not going away.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by wslh »

JonAtkinson wrote: post #38

As another poster points out, there aren't a lot of CMS-related posts on HN, but I'd like to share a little of our experience with Django CMS. I've been using Django CMS since early in the 2.x releases (the earliest Django CMS site I still have the code for was using 2.1.0.beta2), and since then we have developed approximately 80 Django CMS sites; with traffic ranging from a few hundred hits a month, to our largest w…

Have you checked Mezzanine (http://mezzanine.jupo.org/)? we have used it for one of our websites (http://www.nektra.com) with good success a few years ago. The only complain I have is that you need to develop some modules to add some extra functionality that should be included. For example, making cross references between related pages.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by afandian »

hunvreus wrote: post #46
afandian wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at Wagtail.io . It's newish but seems to be getting a good amount of traction by some pretty interesting customers. Written in Python/Django FWIW.

I had forgotten about Wagtail.io. I had a look a while ago and it was still pretty new; looks interesting at first sight. Have you worked with it?

I haven't but I'm planning a new site and I'm going to give it a go. I have a site with entities rather than just pages, so the content model seems to fit. I used Django-CMS about 4 years ago and it didn't support the people editing the site in terms of UX. So I ditched it and went with Wordpress (which I'm not happy with, hence wanting to change).

I used to work for Torchbox who are developing Wagtail, so I heard about it before it went public. But looking at the uptake on http://madewithwagtail.org/ it seems to be doing very well in the market.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by tomd »

hunvreus wrote: post #46
afandian wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at Wagtail.io . It's newish but seems to be getting a good amount of traction by some pretty interesting customers. Written in Python/Django FWIW.

I had forgotten about Wagtail.io. I had a look a while ago and it was still pretty new; looks interesting at first sight. Have you worked with it?

Wagtail isn't so new now - it's coming up to two years since we launched the open source project and there are now thousands of sites in productions, with high profile users including NASA, Google, NBC, the US and UK governments. Wagtail takes quite a different approach to Django CMS and we're very happy to see their continued progress. Congratulations on the release!

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by ausjke »

currysausage wrote: post #16

Off-topic, but since CMS-related submissions come up rather scarcely nowadays: What are some promising, modern Web Content Management Systems for medium-sized sites that I should look at, especially if I like the clean, modular design of ProcessWire very much, but not its implementation (too slow even with caching enabled)? I don't care about the programming language (PHP is fine, so is anything else). What I do care…

My suggestion is drupal, CMS with drupal is a good choice.

yes there are multiple CMS choices and I tried a few of them, nothing beats Drupal due to its modular design, wide community, open source, various plugins, security updates,etc.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by creshal »

EnderMB wrote: post #23
currysausage wrote: post #16

Off-topic, but since CMS-related submissions come up rather scarcely nowadays: What are some promising, modern Web Content Management Systems for medium-sized sites that I should look at, especially if I like the clean, modular design of ProcessWire very much, but not its implementation (too slow even with caching enabled)? I don't care about the programming language (PHP is fine, so is anything else). What I do care…

On PHP I quite like Concrete5. It's reasonably clean, and while I've only used it on small sites there are a bunch of people using it as their main CMS for decent sized sites. The CMS I use the most is Umbraco. It's an open-source ASP.NET CMS that I've used on a varied range of sites, from small to very large. It has its flaws, like most of these types of tools, but I recommend downloading it, and giving it a quick t…

I love concrete5, we get lots of business from frustrated users willing to switch to anything and everything else. :-)

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Post by jmr0 »

Excellent work! I'm really liking the structure board changes, as I had run into some issues with that in the past.

I've used Django CMS for client work and have been very happy - it's all the power of Django combined with a nice user interface for clients to manage their content. It's also very easy to integrate with existing Django sites/plugins.

Anyone working with medium-sized websites and trying to stay away from the PHP world should look into it for their next project.

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