Kotti 0.5.0a1

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

0.5.0 - Unreleased

• Move Kotti’s default user interface to use Twitter Bootstrap.

• Add a separate navigation screen that replaces the former intelligent breadcrumbs menu.

0.4.5 - 2012-01-19

• Add ‘kotti.security.has_permission’ which may be used instead of ‘pyramid.security.has_permission’.

  The difference is that Kotti’s version will set the “authorization context” to be the context that you pass to ‘has_permission’. The effect is that ‘list_groups’ will return a more correct list of local roles, i.e. the groups in the given context instead of ‘request.context’.

• Add a template (‘forbidden.pt’) for when user is logged in but still getting HTTPForbidden.

0.4.4 - 2012-01-05

• The “Forbidden View” will no longer redirect clients that don’t accept ‘text/html’ to the login form.

• Fix bug with ‘kotti.site_title’ setting.

0.4.3 - 2011-12-22

• Add ‘kotti.root_factory’ setting which allows the override Kotti’s default Pyramid root factory. Also, make master templates more robust so that a minimal root with ‘__parent__’ and ‘__name__’ can be rendered.

• The ‘kotti.tests’ was factored out. Tests should now import from ‘kotti.testing’.

0.4.2 - 2011-12-20

• More convenient overrides for add-on packages by better use of ‘config.commit()’.

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.