My presentation for PUG-MY, April 2012.

1. Mezzanine CMS

2. Dependencies
• Python 2.5 - Python 2.7
• Django 1.3x

3. Optional
• Python Image Library (PIL)
• South
• Grappelli-safe
• FileBrowser-safe
• django-mailer
• django-compressor

4. Mezzanine Features
• Hierarchical page navigation
• Scheduled publishing
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Twitter Bootstrap
• SEO friendly URL, Metadata

5. More Features
• Configurable Admin Widgets
• Shopping Cart (Cartidge)
• Tagging
• Disqus, Google Analytics, bit.ly integration
• User Account with email verification
• ... (more here, http://mezzanine.jupo.org/)

6. Why I like Mezzanine

7. 1) Most dependencies
built-in
• Blog
• Gallery
• Twitter Feed
• Rating, Tagging, Threaded Comments
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Mobile Theme

8. 2) Models Mixin
• class Slugged(models.Model):
• class MetaData(models.Model):
• class Displayable(Slugged, MetaData):
• class RichText(models.Model):
• class Ownable(models.Model):

9. Example Mixin
• class BlogPost(Displayable, Ownable,
RichText):
• class BlogCategory(Slugged):

10. 3) Content
Architecture
• Page Model
• parent
• in_navigation
• in_footer
• titles
• content_model
• login_required

11. Example
• from mezzanine.pages.models import Page
• class Gallery(Page, RichText):
• class GalleryImage(Orderable):
• gallery = Gallery()
• file = FileField()
• description = CharField()

12. 4) Build in generic
types
• class ThreadedComment(Comment):
• class Rating(models.Model):

13. 4) Mobile theme
• mezzanine.core.middleware.DeviceAwareU
pdateCacheMiddleware
• mezzanine.core.middleware.TemplateForDe
viceMiddleware
• mezzanine.core.middleware.TemplateForH
ostMiddleware

14. Why I liked mezzanine
(summary)
• Most dependencies built-in
• Models Mixin
• Content Architecture
• Built-in generic types
• Twitter Bootstrap/Mobile Theme
• ofcourse.... because it’s python
• and because it’s django

15. Try it ....
• >> mezzanine-project test_project