How-to guides

These guides presuppose some familiarity with django CMS. They cover some of the same territory as the Tutorials, but in more detail.

Using core functionality

• Use placeholders outside the CMS
• Serve multiple languages
• Serve multiple sites
• Work with templates
• Manage caching
• Enable frontend editing for Page and Django models
• Create sitemaps
• Manage Page Types
• Headless mode

Creating new functionality

• Create plugins
• Upgrading plugins for django CMS 4+
• Create apphooks
• Manage complex apphook configuration
• Extend the Toolbar
• Customise the CMS menus
• Create content creation wizards
• Create admin for grouper models
• Extend Page & Page Content models
• Test your extensions

Sharing functionality

• CMS application configuration