Dragontail is the Wagtail-based successor to TraContent, the content management system that brought Tracon to light from the darkness of Wordpress, Drupal and PencilBlue.
While Wagtail is advertised as a content management system (CMS), a more apt description would be a CMS construction kit. The Wagtail developers appreciate the fact that no two sites are identical and sites often have wildly differing requirements.
Wagtail therefore does not provide basic concepts such as "content page" or "blog post", but gives the developer excellent tools to create just the kind of content pages and blog posts the developer wants.
Dragontail, on the other hand, is an opinionated batteries-included CMS that uses Wagtail and implements basic building blocks for an actual site using the tools provided by Wagtail. Dragontail builds on the experience gained while developing TraContent and also shares many architectural choices with it.
| Feature | TraContent | Dragontail |
|---|---|---|
| Python version | 2.7, 3.4 or 3.5 | 3.4 or 3.5 |
| Framework | Django 1.9 | Django 1.9 |
| Base CMS | None | Wagtail |
| Admin UI | Django Admin | Wagtail |
| Rich Text Editor | CKEditor | Wagtail |
| File Management | CKEditor | Wagtail |
Here's a cool feature matrix:
| Feature | Standard Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Price | Free | Free |
| Support | Purchased separately | Purchased separately |
| Multisite support | Yes (always on) | Yes (always on) |
| OAuth2 authentication | No | Yes |
If you have Kompassi OAuth2 support enabled, you're running the Enterprise Edition. Because starships, that's why :)
Install dependencies:
virtualenv venv-tracontent
source venv-tracontent/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/tracon/tracontent.git
cd tracontent
pip install -r requirements.txt
Setup basic example content:
./manage.py setup
./manage.py setup_tracon11 localhost
Run the server and view the site in your favourite web browser:
./manage.py runserver localhost
iexplore http://localhost:8000
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