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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 2 Web Development Cookbook 100 practical recipes on building scalable Python web apps with Django 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837682
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aidas Bendoraitis Aidas Bendoraitis
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Jake Kronika Jake Kronika
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 2. Database Structure and Modeling FREE CHAPTER 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Customizing Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Django CMS 9. Hierarchical Structures 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Bells and Whistles 12. Testing and Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding new fields to the CMS page

CMS pages have several multilingual fields, such as the title, slug, menu title, page title, description meta tag, and overwrite URL. They also have several common language-agnostic fields, such as the template, the ID used in the template tags, the attached application, and the attached menu. However, that might not be enough for more complex websites. Thankfully, Django CMS features a manageable mechanism to add new database fields for CMS pages. In this recipe, you will see how to add fields for the CSS classes, for the navigational menu items and page body.

Getting ready

Let's create the cms_extensions app and put it under INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.

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