Django Xprez

Xprez is CMS For Django

Quick start

Install django-xprez:

    pip install django-xprez

Add following apps to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'django.contrib.humanize',
        'sorl.thumbnail',
        'xprez',
        'xprez.ck_editor',
        ...
    ]

Run python manage.py migrate to create xprez models.
Make sure request context processor is enabled in settings:

    TEMPLATES = [
        ...
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                ...
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                ...
            ]
        },
        ...
    ]

Include the xprez admin URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

    path('xprez/', include('xprez.urls')),

Create models:

    from xprez.models import ContentsContainer

    class Page(ContentsContainer):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
        slug = models.SlugField(max_length=255, unique=True)

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title

    from django.contrib import admin
    from xprez.admin import XprezAdmin
    from .models import Page

    @admin.register(Page)
    class PageAdmin(XprezAdmin):
        pass

Render page in template:

    {% load xprez %}
    {% xprez_front_media %}
    {% include 'xprez/includes/photoswipe.html' %}
    {% include 'xprez/container.html' with contents=page.contents.all %}

(optional) Change sorl thumbnail backend in settings - for seo-friendly thumbnail filenames:

    THUMBNAIL_BACKEND = 'xprez.contrib.sorl_thumbnail.thumbnail_backend.NamingThumbnailBackend'

(optional) Look at example_app for more comprehensive example.

Development

To setup automated black formatting connected to git commits:

install pre-commit
run pre-commit install

To rebuild ckeditor:

cd xprez/ck_editor/assets/ckeditor5
npm install
npm run build

To rebuild css styles

cd xprez/static/xprez
npm install
npm run build (or `watch` for developing)

Deploying new version

https://github.com/s-cape/django_xprez/actions/workflows/release.yml

TODO

add custom module tutorial to Readme
fix template content to save only relative path to database
check template content raising UnicodeDecodeError
create manual for various situations (ck_editor branch)
- using custom config and implement style sources into own building system (using get_module_path.py)
- how to implement xprezanchor functionality