Mezzanine CMS is a content management system built on the Django framework. It has Python and Django dependencies and optional dependencies like PIL, South, and django plugins. Mezzanine features include hierarchical pages, scheduling, WYSIWYG editing, Bootstrap, SEO URLs, and integrations. It includes blogging, galleries, ratings, comments and has mobile themes. Developers appreciate that most dependencies are built-in and it uses mixins, customizable content models and generic object types.

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