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An open source content management platform built using the Django framework.

Project description

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Overview

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

Mezzanine resembles tools like Wordpress, with an intuitive interface for managing pages, blog posts, form data, store products, or any other type of content you can imagine. 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.

Visit the Mezzanine project page to see some of the great sites people have built using Mezzanine.

Features

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:

The Mezzanine admin dashboard:

http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/raw/master/docs/img/dashboard.png

Dependencies

Mezzanine has no explicit dependencies apart from a standard Django environment using:

Mezzanine is designed however to be used most effectively in conjunction with the following libraries:

Browser Support

Mezzanine’s admin interface works with all modern browsers. Internet Explorer 7 and earlier are generally unsupported.

Installation

The easiest method is to install directly from pypi using pip or setuptools by running the respective command below, which will also attempt to install the dependencies mentioned above:

$ pip install -U mezzanine

or:

$ 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 Mezzanine 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
$ python manage.py createdb --noinput
$ python manage.py runserver

You should then be able to browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and log in using the default account (username: admin, password: default). If you’d like to specify a different username and password during set up, simply exclude the --noinput option included above when running createdb.

For information on how to add Mezzanine to an existing Django project, see the FAQs section of the documentation.

Contributing

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.

Please note the following points around contributing:

  • Contributed code must be written in the existing style. This is as simple as following the Django coding style and most importantly PEP 8.

  • Contributions must be available on a separately named branch that is based on the latest version of the main branch.

  • Run the tests before committing your changes. If your changes causes the tests to break, they won’t be accepted.

  • If you’re adding new functionality, you must include basic tests and documentation.

Third-party Modules

The following modules have been developed outside of Mezzanine. If you have developed a module to integrate with Mezzanine and would like it listed here, send an email to the mezzanine-users mailing list.

Donating

If you would like to make a donation to continue development of the project, you can do so via the Mezzanine Project website.

Support

For general questions or comments, please join the mezzanine-users mailing list. To report a bug or other type of issue, please use the GitHub issue tracker.

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