Mezzanine DocumentationRelease 431

Stephen McDonald

Sep 17 2018

Contents

1 Table Of Contents 311 Overview 312 Content Architecture 1713 Model Customization 2514 Admin Customization 2715 Multi-Lingual Sites 3116 Utilities 3417 Model Graph 3918 In-line Editing 4019 Caching Strategy 42110 Multi-Tenancy 43111 Deployment 45112 Frequently Asked Questions 48113 Public User Accounts 53114 Search Engine 54115 Configuration 58116 Importing External Blogs 72117 Twitter Integration 75118 Packages 76119 Colophon 108

Python Module Index 217

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Mezzanine Documentation Release 431

Welcome to the Mezzanine project To learn more about Mezzanine please read the Overview which contains a featurelist installation guide and other general information To get an idea of the types of sites possible with Mezzaninehave a look at the gallery of sites powered by Mezzanine

Note A working knowledge of Django is required to work with Mezzanine and the documentation assumes as muchIf yoursquore new to Django yoursquoll need to work through the Django tutorial before being able to understand the conceptsused throughout the Mezzanine documentation A mantra for working with Mezzanine Mezzanine Is Just Django -Ken Bolton Mezzanine core team member

Front-end developers might be interested in Mezzaninersquos ability for content authors to edit content directly withina page while viewing it on the website You can read about this and how to implement this feature within templatesunder In-line Editing

Back-end developers can get a better technical overview of how content is managed and how to customize Mezzaninein general by reading about Mezzaninersquos Content Architecture which describes the main components and how to extendthem with your own custom content types or by reading about Model Customization for implementing more low-levelcustomizations as required There is also a section on the Admin Customization provided by Mezzanine as well as aModel Graph depicting the relationships between all the models

System administrators can find out about some of the production requirements and operations in the Deployment andCaching Strategy sections

Further reading includes Frequently Asked Questions Utilities a section on Public User Accounts support for Multi-Lingual Sites information about Mezzaninersquos Search Engine and a section on Mezzaninersquos Configuration whichoutlines the various settings for configuring Mezzanine Lastly you can learn about Importing External Blogs intoMezzanine Twitter Integration or just browse the auto-generated docs for each of Mezzaninersquos Packages

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Contents

1 Table Of Contents 311 Overview 312 Content Architecture 1713 Model Customization 2514 Admin Customization 2715 Multi-Lingual Sites 3116 Utilities 3417 Model Graph 3918 In-line Editing 4019 Caching Strategy 42110 Multi-Tenancy 43111 Deployment 45112 Frequently Asked Questions 48113 Public User Accounts 53114 Search Engine 54115 Configuration 58116 Importing External Blogs 72117 Twitter Integration 75118 Packages 76119 Colophon 108

Python Module Index 217

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Mezzanine Documentation Release 431

Welcome to the Mezzanine project To learn more about Mezzanine please read the Overview which contains a featurelist installation guide and other general information To get an idea of the types of sites possible with Mezzaninehave a look at the gallery of sites powered by Mezzanine

Note A working knowledge of Django is required to work with Mezzanine and the documentation assumes as muchIf yoursquore new to Django yoursquoll need to work through the Django tutorial before being able to understand the conceptsused throughout the Mezzanine documentation A mantra for working with Mezzanine Mezzanine Is Just Django -Ken Bolton Mezzanine core team member

Front-end developers might be interested in Mezzaninersquos ability for content authors to edit content directly withina page while viewing it on the website You can read about this and how to implement this feature within templatesunder In-line Editing

Back-end developers can get a better technical overview of how content is managed and how to customize Mezzaninein general by reading about Mezzaninersquos Content Architecture which describes the main components and how to extendthem with your own custom content types or by reading about Model Customization for implementing more low-levelcustomizations as required There is also a section on the Admin Customization provided by Mezzanine as well as aModel Graph depicting the relationships between all the models

System administrators can find out about some of the production requirements and operations in the Deployment andCaching Strategy sections

Further reading includes Frequently Asked Questions Utilities a section on Public User Accounts support for Multi-Lingual Sites information about Mezzaninersquos Search Engine and a section on Mezzaninersquos Configuration whichoutlines the various settings for configuring Mezzanine Lastly you can learn about Importing External Blogs intoMezzanine Twitter Integration or just browse the auto-generated docs for each of Mezzaninersquos Packages

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Mezzanine Documentation Release 431

Welcome to the Mezzanine project To learn more about Mezzanine please read the Overview which contains a featurelist installation guide and other general information To get an idea of the types of sites possible with Mezzaninehave a look at the gallery of sites powered by Mezzanine

Note A working knowledge of Django is required to work with Mezzanine and the documentation assumes as muchIf yoursquore new to Django yoursquoll need to work through the Django tutorial before being able to understand the conceptsused throughout the Mezzanine documentation A mantra for working with Mezzanine Mezzanine Is Just Django -Ken Bolton Mezzanine core team member

Front-end developers might be interested in Mezzaninersquos ability for content authors to edit content directly withina page while viewing it on the website You can read about this and how to implement this feature within templatesunder In-line Editing

Back-end developers can get a better technical overview of how content is managed and how to customize Mezzaninein general by reading about Mezzaninersquos Content Architecture which describes the main components and how to extendthem with your own custom content types or by reading about Model Customization for implementing more low-levelcustomizations as required There is also a section on the Admin Customization provided by Mezzanine as well as aModel Graph depicting the relationships between all the models

System administrators can find out about some of the production requirements and operations in the Deployment andCaching Strategy sections

Further reading includes Frequently Asked Questions Utilities a section on Public User Accounts support for Multi-Lingual Sites information about Mezzaninersquos Search Engine and a section on Mezzaninersquos Configuration whichoutlines the various settings for configuring Mezzanine Lastly you can learn about Importing External Blogs intoMezzanine Twitter Integration or just browse the auto-generated docs for each of Mezzaninersquos Packages

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Mezzanine Documentation Release 431

Welcome to the Mezzanine project To learn more about Mezzanine please read the Overview which contains a featurelist installation guide and other general information To get an idea of the types of sites possible with Mezzaninehave a look at the gallery of sites powered by Mezzanine

Note A working knowledge of Django is required to work with Mezzanine and the documentation assumes as muchIf yoursquore new to Django yoursquoll need to work through the Django tutorial before being able to understand the conceptsused throughout the Mezzanine documentation A mantra for working with Mezzanine Mezzanine Is Just Django -Ken Bolton Mezzanine core team member

Front-end developers might be interested in Mezzaninersquos ability for content authors to edit content directly withina page while viewing it on the website You can read about this and how to implement this feature within templatesunder In-line Editing

Back-end developers can get a better technical overview of how content is managed and how to customize Mezzaninein general by reading about Mezzaninersquos Content Architecture which describes the main components and how to extendthem with your own custom content types or by reading about Model Customization for implementing more low-levelcustomizations as required There is also a section on the Admin Customization provided by Mezzanine as well as aModel Graph depicting the relationships between all the models

System administrators can find out about some of the production requirements and operations in the Deployment andCaching Strategy sections

Further reading includes Frequently Asked Questions Utilities a section on Public User Accounts support for Multi-Lingual Sites information about Mezzaninersquos Search Engine and a section on Mezzaninersquos Configuration whichoutlines the various settings for configuring Mezzanine Lastly you can learn about Importing External Blogs intoMezzanine Twitter Integration or just browse the auto-generated docs for each of Mezzaninersquos Packages

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