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Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#81

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…

I have neither used Django CMS, nor hip kid in town - Wagtail.

Do you have any comments on differences between them? What I mean is: is Wagtail powerful in features to take on Django CMS? Or it gained it's popularity solely based on new, eye catching design?

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#82

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…

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.

> Take a look at Wagtail.io

Good grief. Thin white and black text on a red background. Why do you hate my eyes? Why??

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#84

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I'm currently tasked with creating a new version of my company's Intranet system and have been looking into the different CMS options out there and talking over choices like SharePoint and OpenAtrium with my co-worker. Would you recommend DjangoCMS for an Intranet? I'm planning to implement collaborative content tools and a company wiki (probably going with MediaWiki) on top of keeping features we've already got, and…

We are currently developing a intranet solution for django CMS at Divio. I cannot give you a ETA yet, but should we inform you once it's available?

Absolutely! Thanks for the reply

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm currently tasked with creating a new version of my company's Intranet system and have been looking into the different CMS options out there and talking over choices like SharePoint and OpenAtrium with my co-worker. Would you recommend DjangoCMS for an Intranet? I'm planning to implement collaborative content tools and a company wiki (probably going with MediaWiki) on top of keeping features we've already got, and…

django CMS has very granular permissions, so yes, it works well for Intranet purposes. It can take a little while to get them set up just-so, but you can use them to handle just about any scenario.

Great, thanks for the reply. Can't wait to give the demo a run :)

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#86

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Slight side-track, but I'd be interested in your "pre-deployment" process. Could you enlighten me, or point me somewhere I could find out? Thanks.

It works just like normal site deployment (prepare containers with the site code and a database, etc, push it to cloud servers) but unlikely customer sites that are controlled by, well, customers, the demo is always the same site, so instead of making users wait for a deploy to start and finish when they request a demo, we deploy a bunch of demo sites in the background and when the user asks for a demo they just get…

Many thanks. What automation tools do you use, and how have you found them? If you've already written about this I'm happy to be pointed elsewhere.

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

#87

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Slight side-track, but I'd be interested in your "pre-deployment" process. Could you enlighten me, or point me somewhere I could find out? Thanks.

It works just like normal site deployment (prepare containers with the site code and a database, etc, push it to cloud servers) but unlikely customer sites that are controlled by, well, customers, the demo is always the same site, so instead of making users wait for a deploy to start and finish when they request a demo, we deploy a bunch of demo sites in the background and when the user asks for a demo they just get…

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Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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I didn't get in yet, but this looks very professional from the pics. Is there any chance your admin forms could get into django proper? The stock admin, while functional, doesn't look nearly as nice. Yes, I'm aware of the new theme, but there's a lot more to it than just being flat.

Without (yet) looking at the CMS admin I can tell you it likely won't. The reason the new flat theme was accepted is because it was css-only changes. Lots of people have customised their admin, so we can't just chop and change the HTML without breaking backwards compatibility. Releasing a theoretical django-cms-admin as a standalone package might be a good idea, so you could at least take that bit if you don't want t…

Perhaps its time to start an admin2, if the old one is holding back progress?

Re: Django CMS 3.2 released

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Why am I being downvoted?

Probably because your comment is incorrect. Django-CMS is almost exclusively structured content, and since it's essentially an extension of Django, you can use standard django models within the CMS. If you want more of a page based CMS, check out wagtail. Also pretty awesome, although in very different ways.

Well, the video indisputably shows the opposite. It's quite ridiculous to claim an improved UX and then show the UX that is apparently an edge case.

To then downvote, that's just sad.

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