FeinCMS - An extensible Django-based CMS

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FeinCMS is an extremely stupid content management system. It knows nothing about content – just enough to create an admin interface for your own page content types. It lets you reorder page content blocks using a drag-drop interface, and you can add as many content blocks to a region (f.e. the sidebar, the main content region or something else which I haven’t thought of yet). It provides helper functions, which provide ordered lists of page content blocks. That’s all.

Adding your own content types is extremely easy. Do you like markdown that much, that you’d rather die than using a rich text editor? Then add the following code to your project, and you can go on using the CMS without being forced to use whatever the developers deemed best:

from markdown2 import markdown
from feincms.module.page.models import Page
from django.db import models

class MarkdownPageContent(models.Model):
    content = models.TextField()

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

    def render(self, **kwargs):
        return markdown(self.content)

Page.create_content_type(MarkdownPageContent)

That’s it. Only ten lines of code for your own page content type.

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Change log

Next version

  • Added a tinymce 7 integration for the richtext content type.

v24.8.1 (2024-08-07)

  • Fixed another edge case: JPEGs cannot be saved as RGBA.

  • Added Django 5.1 to the CI.

v24.7.1 (2024-07-10)

  • Fixed the read the docs build.

  • Disabled the CKEditor 4 version nag.

v24.4.2 (2024-04-18)

  • Fixed the filters to work with Django 5.

v24.4.1 (2024-04-16)

  • Forwarded cookies set by ApplicationContent apps to the final response.

  • Added support for webp image formats to the media library.

v24.4.0 (2024-04-08)

  • Fetched the CSRF token value from the input field instead of from the cookie. This allows making the CSRF cookie httponly. Thanks to Samuel Lim for the contribution!

v23.12.0 (2023-12-22)

  • Added Python 3.12, Django 5.0.

  • Closed images after reading their dimensions. Raised the logging level to exception when thumbnailing fails. Thanks to Jeroen Pulles for those two contributions!

v23.8.0 (2023-08-07)

  • Made the filter argument of content base’s get_queryset method optional. This enables easier interoperability of FeinCMS content types with feincms3 plugins.

  • Added Python 3.11.

  • Fixed the Pillow resampling constant.

v23.1.0 (2023-03-09)

  • Fixed a place where ACTION_CHECKBOX_NAME was imported from the wrong place.

  • Dropped the is_dst argument to timezone.make_aware.

  • Added Django 4.1 and 4.2 to the CI matrix.

v22.4.0 (2022-06-02)

  • Changed the template_key field type to avoid boring migrations because of changing choices.

v22.3.0 (2022-05-17)

  • The render() methods of bundled content types have been changed to return a tuple instead of a HTML fragment in FeinCMS v22.0.0. This was backwards incompatible in some scenarios. Those methods have been changed to return a tuple subclass which automatically renders a HTML fragment if evaluated in a string context.

v22.2.0 (2022-05-06)

  • Dropped support for Python < 3.8.

  • Fixed the thumbnailing support of the MediaFileForeignKey. It has been broken since Django switched to template-based widget rendering.

v22.1.0 (2022-03-31)

  • Fixed the feincms_render_level render recursion protection.

  • Wrapped the recursive saving of pages in a transaction, so if anything fails we have a consistent state.

  • Dropped more compatibility code for Django 1.x.

  • Made medialibrary_orphans work again.

  • Removed the six dependency since we’re Python 3-only now.

  • Updated the pre-commit hooks, cleaned up the JavaScript a bit.

v22.0.0 (2022-01-07)

  • Possibly backwards incompatible Changed all bundled content types’ render() methods to return the (template_name, context) tuple instead of rendering content themselves.

  • Dropped compatibility guarantees with Python < 3.6, Django < 3.2.

  • Added pre-commit.

  • The default view was changed to accept the path as a path keyword argument, not only as a positional argument.

  • Changed the item editor action buttons CSS to not use transitions so that the sprite buttons look as they should.

v1.20.0 (2021-03-22)

  • Changed #main to the more specific #feincmsmain so that it doesn’t collide with Django’s admin panel markup.

  • Stopped the JavaScript code from constructing invalid POST action URLs in the change form.

  • Renamed the main branch to main.

  • Switched to a declarative setup.

  • Switched to GitHub actions.

  • Sorted imports.

  • Reformated the JavaScript code using prettier.

  • Added Python up to 3.9, Django up to the main branch (the upcoming 4.0) to the CI list.

v1.19.0 (2021-03-04)

  • Fixed a bug where the thumbnailer would try to save JPEGs as RGBA.

  • Reformatted the code using black, again.

  • Added Python 3.8, Django 3.1 to the build.

  • Added the Django 3.2 .headers property to the internal dummy response used in the etag request processor.

  • Added a workaround for AppConfig-autodiscovery related crashes. (Because feincms.apps now has more meanings). Changed the documentation to prefer feincms.content.application.models.* to feincms.apps.*.

  • Updated the TinyMCE CDN URL to an version which doesn’t show JavaScript alerts.

  • Added missing on_delete values to the django-filer content types.

v1.18.0 (2020-01-21)

  • Added a style checking job to the CI matrix.

  • Dropped compatibility with Django 1.7.

v1.17.0 (2019-11-21)

  • Added compatibility with Django 3.0.

v1.16.0 (2019-02-01)

  • Reformatted everything using black.

  • Added a fallback import for the staticfiles template tag library which will be gone in Django 3.0.

v1.15.0 (2018-12-21)

  • Actually made use of the timeout specified as FEINCMS_THUMBNAIL_CACHE_TIMEOUT instead of the hardcoded value of seven days.

  • Reverted the deprecation of navigation extension autodiscovery.

  • Fixed the item editor JavaScript and HTML to work with Django 2.1’s updated inlines.

  • Fixed TranslatedObjectManager.only_language to evaluate callables before filtering.

  • Changed the render protocol of content types to allow returning a tuple of (ct_template, ct_context) which works the same way as feincms3’s template renderers.

v1.14.0 (2018-08-16)

  • Added a central changelog instead of creating release notes per release because development is moving more slowly owing to the stable nature of FeinCMS.

  • Fixed history (revision) form, recover form and breadcrumbs when FeinCMS is used with Reversion 2.0.x. This accommodates refactoring that took place in Reversion 1.9 and 2.0. If you are upgrading Reversion (rather than starting a new project), please be aware of the significant interface changes and database migrations in that product, and attempt upgrading in a development environment before upgrading a live site.

  • Added install_requires back to setup.py so that dependencies are installed automatically again. Note that some combinations of e.g. Django and django-mptt are incompatible – look at the Travis CI build configuration to find out about supported combinations.

  • Fixed a few minor compatibility and performance problems.

  • Added a new FEINCMS_THUMBNAIL_CACHE_TIMEOUT setting which allows caching whether a thumb exists instead of calling storage.exists() over and over (which might be slow with remote storages).

  • Fixed random reordering of applications by using an ordered dictionary for apps.

  • Increased the length of the caption field for media file translations.

  • Fixed feincms.contrib.tagging to actually work with Django versions after 1.9.x.

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