Write this…

from django.db import models
from djangocms_custom_content.models import AbstractCustomGrouper, AbstractCustomContent

class Article(AbstractCustomGrouper):
    pass

class ArticleContent(AbstractCustomContent):
    article = models.ForeignKey(Article, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    language = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    slug = models.SlugField()
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    body = models.TextField()

    class CMSConfig:
        enable_versioning = True
        enable_frontend_editing = True
        apphook = True

…and that model (plus a few lines of grouper admin) gives you, for free:

• per-language draft/publish version history

• frontend, double-click editing inside the page

• a detail view at a clean URL, with get_absolute_url() injected — swap in your own view or add extra URLs when you outgrow the default

• a grouper admin to create and manage content

Want related content? Add one line to the grouper — authors = RelationField("people.Person", ordered=True) — and the admin renders a sortable autocomplete, anchored to the grouper so the link survives every new version.

Why you’ll want it

• Write the model, skip the plumbing — versioning, grouper admin, frontend editing, app hooks and migrations are handled.

• Relations that survive versioning — related content is anchored to the grouper, so links don’t break when a new version is published.

• Sortable related-content widgets, free — every relation renders as an autocomplete multi-select in the admin, drag-sortable when ordered.

• Relate to anything without touching it — generic relations need no foreign key or migration on the target model.

• Multi-language & versioned — per-language draft/publish history per content model.

• Batteries included — complete blog, people, categories and services apps, supported and migrated, to install as-is or read and adapt.

• Current django CMS and Django — see the badges above for the supported releases.

See it work in two minutes

Don’t build anything yet — turn on a bundled example and click around first:

pip install djangocms-custom-content[djangocms-versioning]

(Versioning is optional; drop the extra if you don’t want draft/publish history.)

Add the blog (plus the apps it relates to) to INSTALLED_APPS and migrate:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ... django CMS and its dependencies ...
    "djangocms_custom_content",
    "djangocms_custom_content.contrib.people",
    "djangocms_custom_content.contrib.categories",
    "djangocms_custom_content.contrib.blog",
]

python manage.py migrate

That’s it — a versioned, frontend-editable blog in the admin, with sortable authors and categories relations and ready-to-place CMS plugins, no models written. Then build your own by following the documentation:

https://djangocms-custom-content.readthedocs.io/

Bundled apps

djangocms_custom_content.contrib ships complete, installable applications (models + admin + django CMS plugins). Install and rely on them, or read them as worked examples and adapt — either way their schema changes arrive as migrations that upgrade an existing database:

• djangocms_custom_content.contrib.people: Person grouper/content (a versioned grouper without a language field) + “Person teaser” plugin, and an app hook giving every person a detail URL

• djangocms_custom_content.contrib.categories: FlatCategory — a grouper-less taxonomy used as a relation target + “Category list” plugin

• djangocms_custom_content.contrib.services: a versioned, frontend-editable Service/ServiceContent pair + “Service teaser” and “Featured services” plugins

• djangocms_custom_content.contrib.blog: blog posts with ordered authors and categories relations + “Blog post” teaser and a paginated “Blog post list” plugin

To enable one (or more), add the module(s) to INSTALLED_APPS and run migrations:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'djangocms_custom_content',
    'djangocms_custom_content.contrib.people',  # each app is optional
    'djangocms_custom_content.contrib.services',
    'djangocms_custom_content.contrib.categories',
    'djangocms_custom_content.contrib.blog',
    ...,
]

python manage.py migrate

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause License.