Motivation

I’ve been using the flatpages app for a long time, but somewhere along the line I started keeping my flatpage content (snippets of html) in the git repo with the rest of my project. Any time I made a change to a flatpage, I’d edit the file locally, commit the changes, then copy and paste the new content into the relevant flatpage.

Why not just serve these from my templates directory?

That’s what staticflatpages does.

Installation

Install the latest release with pip:

pip install django-staticflatpages

Configuration

1. Add staticflatpages to your INSTALLED_APPS.

2. Add staticflatpages.middleware.StaticFlatpageFallbackMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

3. Create a staticflatpages template directory. This should be a subdirectory of one of the templates in your TEMPLATE_DIRS. Any templates you include here (except for a base.html) will get served as a static page.

For example, assuming your project-level template directory is named “templates”, then:

• The url /about/ will render templates/staticflatpages/about.html

• The url /about/team/ will render templates/staticflatpages/about/team.html

Sitemaps

This app also supports sitemaps for staticflatpages. To enable these, you’ll need to have django.contrib.sitemaps listed in your INSTALLED_APPS. Then, just set up a sitemap (e.g. in your Root URLconf):

from staticflatpages.sitemaps import StaticFlatpageSitemap

sitemaps = {
    'staticflatpages': StaticFlatpageSitemap,
}

Then include your sitemaps urls as normal:

urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'index', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
    url(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$',
        'sitemap',
        {'sitemaps': sitemaps}
    ),
)

Settings

If you use the sitemaps feature, you may also want to include the following settings:

• STATICFLATPAGES_CHANGEFREQ: Corresponds to the Sitemap.changefreq attribute (defaults to never).

• STATICFLATPAGES_PRIORITY: Corresponds to the Sitemap.priority attribute (defaults to 0.5).

License

This code is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.