django-ckeditors 2025.5.22.3

CKEditors for Django.

This is archived and no longer supported.

See the django-blocknote repository for an alternative.

Version = 2025.05.22.3

CKEditor 5 Integration for Django >= 2.0

Vendored from this excellent project: https://github.com/hvlads/django-ckeditor-5

Licenses

Django: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License

CKEditor 5: GPL 2+ copyleft license

What is django-ckeditors

django-ckeditors: A Powerful and Versatile Rich Text Editor for Your Django Projects

• Seamlessly integrate the renowned CKEditor 5 into your Django website.

• Provide your users with a modern and intuitive content creation experience.

• Includes features like text formatting, image uploads, tables, code blocks, and more.

• Highly customizable to fit your project’s exact needs.

“django-ckeditor-5 provides a strong foundation, and I’m building upon it with customizations that align perfectly with my project’s needs.”

See the Quickstart: here

Ideal For:

• Blogs

• Content Management Systems (CMS)

• Websites requiring advanced text editing features

Includes the following CKEditor 5 plugins

• Text Formatting

  • Basic:

    • Bold

    • Italic

    • Underline

    • Strikethrough

    • Superscript

    • Subscript

    • Code

  • Paragraph and Structure:

    • BlockQuote

    • Heading

    • Paragraph

    • Alignment

  • Lists:

    • List

    • TodoList

    • ListProperties

  • Advanced:

    • Highlight

    • Indent

    • IndentBlock

• Images and Media

  • Core:

    • Image

    • ImageCaption

    • ImageStyle

    • ImageToolbar

    • ImageResize

    • ImageInsert

    • LinkImage

  • Upload:

    • UploadAdapter

    • SimpleUploadAdapter

  • Embedding:

    • MediaEmbed

    • HtmlEmbed

• Other

  • Link:

    • Link

  • Table:

    • Table

    • TableToolbar

    • TableCaption

    • TableProperties

    • TableCellProperties

  • Style:

    • Font

    • Style

    • HorizontalLine

  • Editing Tools:

    • CodeBlock

    • Autoformat

    • PasteFromOffice

    • RemoveFormat

    • SourceEditing

    • GeneralHtmlSupport

  • Word Processing Features

    • WordCount

    • Mention

Optimizing Bundle Size

By default, django-ckeditors includes all available languages. If you only need specific languages, you can create a custom build:

1. Clone this repository

2. Modify webpack.config.mjs:

new CKEditorTranslationsPlugin({
    language: 'en', // This is the main language, you can change this to suit

    // and or
    additionalLanguages: ['es', 'fr'], // Only languages you need
    // additionalLanguages: 'all',

    buildAllTranslationsToSeparateFiles: true,
}),

3. Run npm run prod to build with only your required languages.

npm run prod