[BangPypers] Django-based CMS recommendations?

[Gora Mohanty]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does this list have a recommendation for a Django-based CMS? Or a review of
> the one conveniently named "Django CMS"?

We looked at django-cms, but went with page-cms, though this was also
partly because of client requirements. These days, I would recommend
feincms. Please see
http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2009/09/show-me-your-open-source-django-cms.html
for a blog article about how a NASA division picked feincms (django-cms was
the close, second choice).

> I'm looking for a CMS that is convenient to use over the web, has blogging
> abilities, and is extensible the way Django is. Should be in Python for the
> comfort factor.
[...]

It is probably best to use an external blogging application. There are
several choices here, but I would go with Mingus:
  https://github.com/montylounge/django-mingus
  http://blog.montylounge.com/2009/07/1/welcome/
  http://blog.montylounge.com/2009/09/24/apps-that-power-django-mingus/
One big advantage of Mingus is that it is a collection of Django applications,
and hence can easily be integrated into a Django project. Now, there is also
apparently some integration with feincms, though I have not tried out this
aspect: http://www.toolpart.hu/blog/2010/01/28/feincms-integration-mingus/

Regards,
Gora