How to set a custom/editable sitename and site discription in Django CMS.
The sitename and discription should be editable via Django CMS!
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if I understand you correctly, you want to
put a placeholder in your template and
add a text plugin to that via the structure view.
<!-- your template, e.g. base.html -->
{% placeholder "title" %}
Then, in your structure view (button at the top right in your screenshot) you should see the placeholder and be able to add a text plugin with the title there.
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I've built a site where I can create new posts (essays) by the admin panel. The output is visible to users. But when I place some HTML as content in the form it doesn't render itself on the page.
example:
Output on the page (with marked unrendered HTML):
I would like to know how to fix it and also, how to name the topic I want to know ( I couldn't find anything related to my problem, probably because I don't know how to express it).
Additionally, I just start to wonder if there is one more problem nested inside. How to link CSS from the static folder having this HTML mentioned above?
Django offer the autoescape template in the builtins tags
{% autoescape off %}
{{ myhtml }}
{% endautoescape %}
But your logic seems wrong, you don't need to create a new page with the doctype, just create a base template and use the block content tag to insert your article.
In your base template replace the description and title of your page by variables that will be populated by the article data.
You need to learn the basic of Django https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ trust me you won't regret it !
I've got a django-cms site on which I have created a page at /managers-home/ with an app hook so that I can use myapp from that page.
myapp renders various templates at various URLs beneath /managers-home/ and I would like each of these templates to have a section editable via the django-cms content plugin. Therefore I have added {% staticplaceholder "content" site %} to these templates, because, as I understand it, you can't use a standard {% placeholder "" %} from within a hooked application.
I made a start with this and added some text to the placeholder on /managers-home/page-1/ which uses page-1.html and then when I got to the placeholder on /managers-home/page-2 I could already see the content from page-1 despite now using page-2.html so the placeholder on these two individual templates is being shared.
How can I correctly add django-cms placeholders throughout my application templates?
Turns out my problem was that a static_placeholder is exactly that, just a placeholder identified by the name given and anywhere you reference that name you get the same content.
So in order to allow each of my templates to display custom text, I've created a static_placeholder for each template.
# page-1.html
{% static_placeholder "page-1" site or %}
Default text goes here
{% endstatic_placeholder %}
# settings.py
CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CONF = {
'page-1': {
'plugins': ['TextPlugin', 'UploadedPicturePlugin'],
'text_only_plugins': ['LinkPlugin'],
'extra_context': {"width": 640},
'name': gettext("Content"),
}
}
I want to add a common sidebar for all my templates on my site. Let's say, I want a picture and some text, that the final user could modify whenever she feels like without having to mess with my base.html template (the base class of all my templates).
To be clear, I know that I can put plugin place holders with the template tag:
{% placeholder sidebar %}
My problem is that if I have five 5 templates and the content of the sidebar is the same for all of them, the user have to go through all the pages and change them one by one.
On the other hand, it cannot be static because I want the user to be able to modify the content through the admin.
Specifically, I am trying to do this with the cmsplugin-contact which saves me the troubles of configuring forms and emails.
You can create a special page that isn't published and add a "sidebar" placeholder to the template. You then use the {% show_placeholder %} template tag to render that sidebar placeholder in the base template that each of your 5 other pages are using
I've been playing around with mezzanine for a couple days and I've been following this blog, which has been very helpful.
I'm now at the point where I need to make a bunch of pages that need to be based off of a custom template. My custom template is called content.html
I've put it in myProject > myApp/theme folder > templates > pages > content.html but when I look in the admin console, I don't see content in the drop down menu.
How do I get mezzanine to recognize my content.html page as a template?
content.html will not automatically appear in your site's drop down menu.
You need to go to the admin site and explicitly declare a page my content where you would like content.html to appear in your page hierarchy.
For mezzanine to match the two (i.e. template content.html and admin page my content):
Either my content's Title field (in admin site) should be content,
Or, URL field (in the meta data section of my content) should be content (if you decide the title will not be content),
Or, if you want content.html to have a custom slug, say nicecontent, then fill URL field with nicecontent and add to url.py a pattern for content.html with a matching slug, so:
url("^nicecontent/$", direct_to_template, {"template": "path/to/content.html"}, name="name_for_content").
There's a method Mezzanine uses for looking up template names, from the broadest ("page.html", which all other templates also extend), to templates named for their content types (richtextpage.html, gallery.html, etc), down to the most granular level, which is templates matching the url/slug of individual pages.
This is all covered in the documentation:
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/content-architecture.html#page-templates
It sounds like you might be looking for "page.html", but it's not clear from your question.
My problem
With Django CMS 2.3.3, when creating a Page I use cmsplugin_picture* next to a couple of other cmsplugins. In my cms template, instead of doing:
{% placholder "content" %} //calling the Django Page including all plugins...
I would like to call each cmsplugin seperately, but how would I do that?
I looked at Django tag template (filters) here and also studied Django CMS template tags here, but neither seem to suggest that possibility. I have to say I am a beginner so I might not have connected the dots...
What I try to achieve:
In my template I have a IMG tag (outside of the {% placeholder "content" %} tag) which I want to populate with an image url that I define in my Page/cmsplugin_picture. So I am looking for a placeholder tag that allows me to grab that image. In my wildest dreams I would name it:
{% show_placeholder "content" request.current_page.get_cmsplugin_picture %}
Obviously the above doesn't work, but does something like this exist?
**I have also tried cmsplugin_filer, but to me it isn't necessarely more beneficial to fix this particular problem.*
EDIT:
What I mean by Page/cmsplugin_picture -> In a Django CMS Page you can select between your installed cmsplugins to add to a Page. In my case I select cmsplugin_picture and upload an image (within that plugin). This image I want to 'call' in my Django Template. So it is a not a static url, but dynamic.
You should make a second placeholder where your img tag is (and optionally limit the types and amount of plugins using CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CONF (http://docs.django-cms.org/en/2.3.3/getting_started/configuration.html#cms-placeholder-conf).