Kotti 0.4.1

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: continuous testing with a 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

0.4.1 - 2011-12-20

• Modularize Kotti’s Paste App Factory ‘kotti.main’.

• Allow explicit setting of tables that Kotti creates (‘kotti.use_tables’).

0.4.0 - 2011-12-14

• Remove configuration variables ‘kotti.templates.*’ in favour of ‘kotti.asset_overrides’, which uses Pyramid asset specs and their overrides.

• Remove ‘TemplateAPI.__getitem__’ and instead add ‘TemplateAPI.macro’ which has a similar but less ‘special’ API.

• Factor snippets in ‘kotti/templates/snippets.pt’ out into their own templates. Use ‘api.render_template’ to render them instead of macros.

0.3.1 - 2011-12-09

• Add ‘keys’ method to mutation dicts (see 0.3.0).

0.3.0 - 2011-11-30

• Replace Node.__annotations__ in favor of an extended Node.annotations.

  Node.annotations will attempt to not only recognize changes to subobjects of type dict, it will also handle list objects transparently. That is, changing arbitrary JSON structures should just work with regard to calling node.annotations.changed() when the structure was changed.

0.2.10 - 2011-11-22

• ‘api.format_datetime’ now also accepts a timestamp in addition to datetime.

0.2.9 - 2011-11-21

• Remove MANIFEST.in in favour of using ‘setuptools-git’.

0.2.8 - 2011-11-21

• Remove ‘PasteScript’ dependency since that would result in spurious errors when installing Kotti. See http://jenkins.danielnouri.org/job/Kotti/42/TOXENV=py27/console

0.2.7 - 2011-11-20

• Add ‘PasteScript’ dependency.

• Fix #11 where ‘python setup.py test’ would look into a hard-coded ‘bin’ directory.

• Structural analysis documentation. (Unfinished; in ‘analysis’ directory during development. Will be moved to main docs when finished.)

0.2.6 - 2011-11-17

• Add Node.__annotations__ convenience attribute.

  Node.__annotations__ will wrap the annotations dict in such a way that both item and attribute access are possible. It’ll also record changes to dicts inside dicts and mark the parent __annotations__ attribute as dirty.

• Add a welcome page.

• Delete the demo added in version 0.2.4.

0.2.5 - 2011-11-14

• Add ‘TemplateAPI.render_template’; allow templates to be rendered conveniently from templates.

0.2.4 - 2011-11-13

• Adjust for Pyramid 1.2: INI file, pyramid_tm, Wsgiref server, pcreate and pserve. (MO)

• Add Kotti Demo source and documentation.

0.2.3 - 2011-10-28

• Node.__getitem__ will now also accept a tuple as key.

  folder['1', '2'] is the same as folder['1']['2'], just more efficient.

• Added a new cache decorator based on repoze.lru.

0.2.2 - 2011-10-10

• Change the function signature of kotti.authn_policy_factory, kotti.authz_policy_factory and kotti.session_factory to include all settings from the configuration file.

0.2.1 - 2011-09-29

• Minor changes to events setup code to ease usage in tests.

0.2 - 2011-09-16

• No changes.

0.2a2 - 2011-09-05

• Fix templates to be compatible with Chameleon 2. Also, require Chameleon>=2.

• Require pyramid>=1.2. Also, enable pyramid_debugtoolbar for development.ini profile.

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.