django-powerpages 0.0.3

Developer-friendly, simple CMS for Django, "flatpages on steroids".

Developer-friendly, simple CMS for Django, “flatpages on steroids”.

Features

• edit pages in Admin using syntax highlighting - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Django template language

• edit pages as files using your favourite text editor or IDE

• on demand synchronization of pages between database and file system using Django commands

• integration with Django’s template system

• attach custom server-side logic to a page through configurable Page Processors

• sitemap.xml

Installation

Install package using pip:

pip install django-powerpages

Add 'powerpages' to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings module:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'powerpages',
)

Define POWER_PAGES setting:

POWER_PAGES = {
    # absolute path to directory, where page files are located:
    'SYNC_DIRECTORY': '/path/to/directory/'
}

Include app’s URLs at the end of your urlconf:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'', include('powerpages.urls', namespace='powerpages')),
]

Run migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Usage

Admin screenshots:

Synchronization

Export pages from database to file system is done by website_dump command. All pages are saved as structure of files and directories inside settings.POWER_PAGES['SYNC_DIRECTORY'].

python manage.py website_dump

Example structure of output directory:

_index_.page
about-us/_index_.page
about-us/contact.page
download.page
robots.txt

Each of dumped files has the following structure:

{
   ... page fields as JSON
}
## TEMPLATE SOURCE: ##
... template content (plain text)

Import pages from directory into database is done using website_load command.

python manage.py website_load

Both website commands accept a variety of options to tweak their behaviour. For the full list of options, use --help.

TODO: complete the documentation

Requirements

Python: 2.7, 3.4, 3.5

Django: 1.9, 1.10