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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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Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Structure and Modeling 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

Converting an app to a CMS app

The simplest Django CMS website will have the whole page tree created by using an administration interface. However, for real-world cases, you will probably need to show forms or lists of your modeled objects under some page nodes. If you have created an app that is responsible for some types of objects on your website, such as movies, you can easily convert it to a Django CMS app and attach it to one of the pages. This will ensure that the root URL of the app is translatable and the menu item is highlighted when selected. In this recipe, we will convert the movies app to a CMS app.

Getting ready

Let's start with the movies app that we created in the Filtering object lists recipe in
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