The open-source CMS used by thousands of websites since 2007

django CMS full features list

django CMS is an open-source project started in 2007, written in programming language Python and based on the Django web framework. The license under which it is released is the BSD 3, a copy of the license is included with every copy of django CMS.

How to read the following table:

●  Built-in (core packages)          ○  Via third-party packages or services        –  Not available out of the box, custom implementation possible


DJANGO CMS

 

Management

Multi-site capability

 

Reusable Design

 

Intuitive Page Builder with customizable components

Frontend editing

 

Approval Workflow (moderation)

see djangocms-moderation

Integrated Statistics

Best practices suggest using an analytics solution such as Google Analytics (integration for server-side tracking is possible)

Link Management

 

Filterable table of contents

 

Headless Mode / REST API

With djangocms-rest

Security

 

Auditable

django CMS has successfully passed a variety of security audits

Hardened Security

Possible through various built-in django features and well maintained third-party django packages

Granular priviliges

 

Separated Frontend + Backend

In headless mode with djangocms-rest

Captchas

Best practises suggest integrating a third-party service such as Google Captchas

SSL

 

Third-party authentification (LDAP, MS Azure oAuth, Google oAuth, etc)

There are many well maintained django packages that integrate smoothly into the django CMS experience

Session management

 

Response time for security issues

depending on your SLA

Sandbox for development

This is part of a hosting solution. Divio.com, for example, supports multiple dev environments.

Backup management interface and automated backups

This is part of a hosting solution. Divio.com, for example, supports this.

Open-Source Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

Extensibility

 

Extensible

Custom applications, custom content elements, and more.

Support for modern frontend stacks and pipelines

django CMS is completely frontend agnostic. Your frontend developers are completely free in their decisions.

Customizable WYSIWYG editor

See djangocms-text for more info

Spell Checker

 

Versioning, undo changes

See djangocms-versioning for more info

Drag & Drop content management

 

Scripting API

 

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Integrations

For many DAMs well maintained  API wrapper packages exist in django which make integration with django CMS a breeze. The third-party Frontify integration package can serve you as an example.

Mass upload of images/documents

 

Automated image editing (e.g. scaling)

 

Multiple use of media content

 

Free structuring (menus, categories)

 

Hiding contents for mobile devices

 

Scheduled publishing/unpublishing

 

Full text search

Best practises suggest using a cloud-based search engine such as algolia

Searchable assets (PDF, meta data)

see DAM integrations

Standards Compliance

 

UTF-8 support

 

HTML5/CSS3 capable

 

Valid markup

 

Frontend (templates) WCAG compliant

 

Backend WCAG compliant

 

Configurable URLs

 

Meta data editable per page

 

Standard content repository APIs

 

Features

 

Tagging

 

Related Content

 

Tag cloud

 

Comments

 

A/V media

 

Slideshow

 

Newsletter and E-Mail Campaign Management

 

News & Blog

 

Bulletin board

 

Print view, PDF Generator

 

Calendar / events

 

Configurable user profiles

 

Forms builder

 

Social media

 

Feeds

 

FAQ

 

Glossary

 

Shop function

 

Polls, surveys

 

Quiz tool

 

Sitemap generator

 

Design

 

Premade themes

django CMS is made for large, high-quality website projects, enabling smooth, modern processes for the implementation of bespoke branding and design 

Commercial themes

Our trusted network of Experts and Partners can support you with anything you need.

Configurable page layout

 

individual Design/Themes/.... possible without further knowledge

 

Sustainability/Support

 

Commercial Offers (services, training, hosting)

Our trusted network of Experts and Partners can support you with anything you need.

Manuals and documentation

 

User Guide

 

Large developer community

 

Developer conferences

 

Public user/developer platform