Kotti 0.2a1

A user-friendly, light-weight and extensible web content management system. Written in Python, based on Pyramid and SQLAlchemy.

Kotti is a user-friendly, light-weight and extensible web content management system. It is licensed under a BSD-like license

Features

• User-friendly: a simple edit interface hides advanced functionality from less experienced users

• WYSIWYG editor: includes a rich text editor that lets you edit content like in office applications

• Security: advanced user, groups and user roles management; uses access control lists (ACL) to control access to different parts of the site

• Templating: extend Kotti with your own look & feel with very little programming required

• Customizable: Many aspects of Kotti are configured through a simple INI file

• Add-ons: a plug-in system allows third party software to greatly extend Kotti

• Pluggable authentication: allows authentication of users through LDAP or other existing user databases

• Open: built on top of well-documented, open source components, such as Python, Pyramid and SQLAlchemy

• Tested: an automated test coverage of 100% guarantees Kotti’s stability

Documentation

Click here to access Kotti’s documentation

Try it out

You can try out Kotti on Kotti’s demo site.

Thanks

Kotti thanks the University of Coimbra for their involvement and support in the initial phase of the project.

History

0.2a1 - 2011-08-29

• Improve database schema for Nodes. Split Node class into Node and Content.

  This change is backward incompatible in that existing content types in your code will need to subclass Content instead of Node. The example in the docs has been updated. Also, the underlying database schema has changed.

• Improve user database hashing and local roles storage.

• Compatibility fix for Pyramid 1.2.

0.1.1 - 2011-05-17

• Fix an installation issue with colander and dependency_links.

0.1 - 2011-05-04

• Add persistent settings, which allow the overriding of registry settings and carry along with them the version of the last update.

0.1a9 - 2011-04-12

• Add ‘in_navigation’ flag for all Nodes to control whether or not it appears in the navigation.

• Improvements related to writing add-ons.

0.1a8 - 2011-03-18

• Add slots/portlets through which third party packages can extend Kotti and put fragments of markup into the site’s HTML. Look at the kotti.views.slots for documentation.

• Enable AJAX forms in the Move screen and add Growl-like notification for messages.

• Fixed silly packaging problem with 0.1a7 release. Install would fail with README.rst: No such file or directory before.

• Fix bug with TinyMCE which would trigger “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” all the time.

0.1a7

• Add a user management screen for adding new users and assigning them to roles and groups globally. Allow new users to set their own passwords.

• Add “forgotten password” button to login screen; sends an e-mail with a reset password link.

• Add a simple user preferences screen.

• Ditch ‘kotti.configuration’ in favour of ‘pyramid.settings’.

0.1a6

• Kotti now has a 100% automated test coverage, testing a total of some 950 lines of code.

• Add a user dropdown menu in the edit interface that display’s the currently logged in user’s name and contains links to Site Setup (in the works) and Logout.

• Require Chameleon < 1.2.999 since higher version cause compatibility issues with pyramid and deform.

• Implemented a simple events system in kotti.events that’s akin to Zope3’s object events. See the module for documentation and examples.

• Add a request_cache cache decorator in kotti.util for memoizing function results in the current request. Cut down number of recursive queries run by kotti.security.list_groups_ext.

0.1a5

• Add sharing screen.

  This allows you to set roles for groups and users on individual folders. This also considers roles that are inherited from higher up in the hierarchy, and those that are inherited from groups that the user belongs to.

• Refined available system roles in kotti.security.ROLES. We now have:

  • Viewer: view

  • Editor: view, add, edit

  • Owner: view, add, edit, manage

  • Admin: all permissions

0.1a4

• Added login form.

  With the development profile in development.ini, log in with user ‘admin’ and password ‘qwerty’. User management and sharing tab is a TODO.

• Add a default user database implementation in kotti.security.Principals.

  Override with kotti.principals configuration setting.

• Add inheritbale, nested groups support.

  Groups are stored in Node.__groups__. The API is kotti.security.list_groups and kotti.security.set_groups.