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A content management platform built using the Django framework.

Project description

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Overview
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Mezzanine is a content management platform built using the `Django`_ framework. It is BSD licensed and designed to provide both a consistant interface for managing content, and a simple architecture that makes diving in and hacking on the code as easy as possible.

Its goal is to resemble something like `Wordpress`_, with an intuitive interface for managing pages and blog posts. Mezzanine takes a different approach from other Django applications in this space like `Pinax`_ or `Mingus`_ that glue together a lot of reusable apps, instead opting to provide most of its functionality included with the project by default.

Features
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On top of all the usual features provided by Django such as MVC architecture, ORM, templating, caching and the automatic admin interface, Mezzanine provides the following features.

* Hierarchical page navigation
* Save as draft and preview on site
* Scheduled publishing
* Drag-n-drop page ordering
* WYSIWYG editing
* SEO friendly URLs and meta data
* Mobile device detection and templates
* Blogging engine
* Tagging
* Built-in threaded comments, or:
* `Disqus`_ integration
* `Gravatar`_ integration
* `Google Analytics`_ integration
* `Twitter`_ feed integration
* `bit.ly`_ integration
* Sharing via Facebook or Twitter
* Custom templates per page or blog post
* Built-in test suite

.. image:: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3su7jFBHM1qa0qji.png
:align: center

.. centered:: The Mezzanine admin dashboard

Dependencies
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Apart from `Django`_ itself, Mezzanine has no explicit dependencies but is designed to be used most effectively in conjunction with the following libraries.

* `setuptools`_
* `Python Imaging Library`_ (PIL)
* `django-grappelli`_ <= 2.0
* `django-filebrowser`_ <= 3.0

Installation
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Assuming you have `setuptools`_ installed, the easiest method is to install directly from pypi by running the following command, which will also attempt to install the dependencies mentioned above::

$ easy_install -U mezzanine

Otherwise you can download Mezzanine and install it directly from source::

$ python setup.py install

Once installed, the command ``mezzanine-project`` should be available which can be used for creating a new Mezzaine project in a similar fashion to ``django-admin.py``::

$ mezzanine-project project_name

You can then run your project with the usual Django steps::

$ cd project_name
$ ./manage.py syncdb
$ ./manage.py runserver

Contributing
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Mezzanine is an open source project that is managed using both Git and Mercurial version control systems. These repositories are hosted on both `Github`_ and `Bitbucket`_ respectively, so contributing is as easy as forking the project on either of these sites and committing back your enhancements.

Sites Using Mezzanine
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* `Citrus Agency`_

Quotes
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* "Who came up with the name Mezzanine? I love it, like a platform between the client's ideas and their published website. Very classy!" - `swhite`_

.. _`Django`: http://djangoproject.com/
.. _`Wordpress`: http://wordpress.org/
.. _`Pinax`: http://pinaxproject.com/
.. _`Mingus`: http://github.com/montylounge/django-mingus
.. _`setuptools`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
.. _`Python Imaging Library`: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
.. _`django-grappelli`: http://code.google.com/p/django-grappelli/
.. _`django-filebrowser`: http://code.google.com/p/django-filebrowser/
.. _`Disqus`: http://disqus.com/
.. _`Gravatar`: http://gravatar.com/
.. _`Google Analytics`: http://www.google.com/analytics/
.. _`Twitter`: http://twitter.com/
.. _`bit.ly`: http://bit.ly/
.. _`Citrus Agency`: http://citrus.com.au/
.. _`swhite`: http://bitbucket.org/swhite/
.. _`Github`: http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/
.. _`Bitbucket`: http://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/mezzanine/

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