The Django-CMS has a lot of settings you can use to customize your installation of the CMS to be exactly like you want it to be.
Default: None (Not a valid setting!)
A list of templates you can select for a page.
Example:
CMS_TEMPLATES = (
('base.html', gettext('default')),
('2col.html', gettext('2 Column')),
('3col.html', gettext('3 Column')),
('extra.html', gettext('Some extra fancy template')),
)
Default: True
Optional Enables the inheritance of templates from parent pages.
If this is enabled, pages have the additional template option to inherit their template from the nearest ancestor. New pages default to this setting if the new page is not a root page.
Default: {} Optional
Used to configure placeholders. If not given, all plugins are available in all placeholders.
Example:
CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CONF = {
'content': {
'plugins': ('TextPlugin', 'PicturePlugin'),
'text_only_plugins': ('LinkPlugin',)
'extra_context': {"width":640},
'name':gettext("Content"),
},
'right-column': {
"plugins": ('TeaserPlugin', 'LinkPlugin'),
"extra_context": {"width":280},
'name':gettext("Right Column"),
'limits': {
'global': 2,
'TeaserPlugin': 1,
'LinkPlugin': 1,
},
},
'base.html content': {
"plugins": {'TextPlugin', 'PicturePlugin', 'TeaserPlugin'}
},
}
You can combine template names and placeholder names to granually define plugins, as shown above with ‘’base.html content’‘.
plugins
A list of plugins that can be added to this placeholder. If not supplied, all plugins can be selected.
text_only_plugins
A list of additional plugins available only in the TextPlugin, these plugins can’t be added directly to this placeholder.
extra_context
Extra context that plugins in this placeholder receive.
name
The name displayed in the Django admin. With the gettext stub, the name can be internationalized.
limits
Limit the number of plugins that can be placed inside this placeholder. Dictionary keys are plugin names; values are their respective limits. Special case: “global” - Limit the absolute number of plugins in this placeholder regardless of type (takes precedence over the type-specific limits).
Default: []
A list of plugin context processors. Plugin context processors are callables that modify all plugin’s context before rendering. See Custom Plugins for more information.
Default: []
A list of plugin processors. Plugin processors are callables that modify all plugin’s output after rendering. See Custom Plugins for more information.
Default: ()
A list of import paths for cms.app_base.CMSApp subclasses.
Defaults to an empty list which means CMS applications are auto-discovered in all INSTALLED_APPS by trying to import their cms_app module.
If this setting is set, the auto-discovery is disabled.
Example:
CMS_APPHOOKS = (
'myapp.cms_app.MyApp',
'otherapp.cms_app.MyFancyApp',
'sampleapp.cms_app.SampleApp',
)
Default: True
If set to False, frontend editing is not available for models using cms.models.fields.PlaceholderField.
Default: True
By default django-cms hides menu items that are not yet translated into the current language. With this setting set to False they will show up anyway.
Default: Value of LANGUAGES
Defines the languages available in the CMS.
Example:
CMS_LANGUAGES = (
('fr', gettext('French')),
('de', gettext('German')),
('en', gettext('English')),
)
Note
Make sure you only define languages which are also in LANGUAGES.
Default: True
This will redirect the browser to the same page in another language if the page is not available in the current language.
Default: {}
Language fallback ordering for each language.
Example:
CMS_LANGUAGE_CONF = {
'de': ['en', 'fr'],
'en': ['de'],
}
Default: {}
If you have more than one site and CMS_LANGUAGES differs between the sites, you may want to fill this out so if you switch between the sites in the admin you only get the languages available on this site.
Example:
CMS_SITE_LANGUAGES = {
1:['en','de'],
2:['en','fr'],
3:['en'],
}
Default: Value of CMS_LANGUAGES
A list of languages Django CMS uses in the frontend. For example, if you decide you want to add a new language to your page but don’t want to show it to the world yet.
Example:
CMS_FRONTEND_LANGUAGES = ("de", "en", "pt-BR")
Default: False (unless dbgettext is in settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
Enable gettext-based translation of CMS content rather than use the standard administration interface. Requires django-dbgettext.
Default: False
Enable gettext-based translation of page paths/slugs. Experimental at this stage, as resulting translations cannot be guaranteed to be unique.
For general dbgettext settings, see the dbgettext documentation.
default: cms/
The path from MEDIA_ROOT to the media files located in cms/media/
Default: settings.MEDIA_ROOT + CMS_MEDIA_PATH
The path to the media root of the cms media files.
default: MEDIA_URL + CMS_MEDIA_PATH
The location of the media files that are located in cms/media/cms/
Default: 'cms_page_media/'
By default, Django CMS creates a folder called ‘cms_page_media’ in your static files folder where all uploaded media files are stored. The media files are stored in subfolders numbered with the id of the page.
Default: True
This adds a new field “url overwrite” to the “advanced settings” tab of your page. With this field you can overwrite the whole relative url of the page.
Default: False
This adds a new “redirect” field to the “advanced settings” tab of the page
You can set a url here, which a visitor will be redirected to when the page is accessed.
Note: Don’t use this too much. django.contrib.redirect is much more flexible, handy, and is designed exactly for this purpose.
Default: False
If this is enabled the slugs are not nested in the urls.
So a page with a “world” slug will have a “/world” url, even it is a child of the “hello” page. If disabled the page would have the url: “/hello/world/”
Default: False
This adds a new “softroot” field to the “advanced settings” tab of the page. If a page is marked as softroot the menu will only display items until it finds the softroot.
If you have a huge site you can easily partition the menu with this.
Default: False
If this is enabled you get 3 new models in Admin:
In the edit-view of the pages you can now assign users to pages and grant them permissions. In the global permissions you can set the permissions for users globally.
If a user has the right to create new users he can now do so in the “Users - page”. But he will only see the users he created. The users he created can also only inherit the rights he has. So if he only has been granted the right to edit a certain page all users he creates can, in turn, only edit this page. Naturally he can limit the rights of the users he creates even further, allowing them to see only a subset of the pages he’s allowed access to, for example.
Default: False
If set to true, gives you a new “moderation” column in the tree view.
You can select to moderate pages or whole trees. If a page is under moderation you will receive an email if somebody changes a page and you will be asked to approve the changes. Only after you approved the changes will they be updated on the “live” site. If you make changes to a page you moderate yourself, you will need to approve it anyway. This allows you to change a lot of pages for a new version of the site, for example, and go live with all the changes at the same time.
Default: False for both
This adds 2 new date-time fields in the advanced-settings tab of the page. With this option you can limit the time a page is published.
Default: False
This adds a new “SEO Fields” fieldset to the page admin. You can set the Page Title, Meta Keywords and Meta Description in there.
To access these fields in the template use:
{% load cms_tags %}
<head>
<title>{% page_attribute page_title %}</title>
<meta name="description" content="{% page_attribute meta_description %}"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="{% page_attribute meta_keywords %}"/>
...
...
</head>
Default: 60
Defines how long page content should be cached, in seconds, including navigation and admin menu.
Default: None
The CMS will prepend the value associated with this key to every cache access (set and get). This is useful when you have several Django-CMS installations, and you don’t want them to share cache objects.
Example:
CMS_CACHE_PREFIX = 'mysite-live'