Django resources

This page collects any and all unofficial resources regarding Django.

We'll say it again: These are unofficial resources, so take all of these documents with a grain of salt. This is a publicly editable wiki.

1. Sites using Django
2. References & Development Aides
3. Django books
4. Django application components
5. Open-Source Django projects
6. General
7. Installing and configuring Django
8. Development environment
9. Templates
10. Code examples
11. Web services/APIs
12. Tutorials on the Web
13. Presentations
14. Resources in other languages
15. Community
16. Jobs & Employment
17. Cheat Sheets and Quick Starts

Sites using Django

• ​djangosites.org: View and list your Django powered site(s) (replaces the previous wiki page)

References & Development Aides

• ​Findjango - A vertical search engine addressing the Django community.
• ​DjangoSearch - A multilingual search engine for Django and archive of all articles.
• ​djangosnippets.org - Code-sharing site with source code available.
• ​django-apps.com - A catalog of complete django applications
• ​djangourls.com - An aggregator for the newest and most popular Django links

Django books

• ​The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
• ​Learning Website Development with Django- A beginner's tutorial to building web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework.
• ​Django 1.0 Template Development- A practical guide to Django template development with custom tags, filters, multiple templates, caching, and more.
• ​Django 1.0 Website Development- Build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework.
• ​Django: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual QuickPro Guides)
• ​Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging- Building rigorously tested and bug-free Django applications.
• ​Django 1.2 E-commerce- Build powerful e-commerce applications using Django, a leading Python web framework

Django application components

These are open-source application components that you can plug into any project. See ReusableAppResources for other resources for finding and evaluating re-usable apps.

• OpenID
  • ​django-authopenid - Django authentication application with openid using django auth contrib
  • ​django-openid (django_openidconsumer)
  • ​django-openid-consumer - fork of django-openid, to add OpenID 2 support
  • ​django-openid-auth - OpenID integration for django.contrib.auth, with xsupport for the Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange extensions.
  • See a short feature comparison at ​http://splike.com/wiki/Django_OpenID
• User registration, signup, authentication, security
  • ​django-registration - A simple, generic user-registration application for Django
  • ​django-signup - A pluggable signup application for Django
  • ​django-sslauth SSL client certificate authentication and validation
  • ​django-cas YaleCAS (Central Authentication Service) plugin for user authentication
  • ​django-http-digest - Allows you to protect views with HTTP digest authentication.
  • ​django-simple-captcha - Extremely simple, yet highly customizable Django application to add captcha images to any Django form.
  • ​django-ldapdb - Allows you to access LDAP entries through Django Models.
  • ​django-account-manager - Experimental implementation of Account Management and Session Identification by Mozilla Labs
  • ​django-permissions - Role based per object permissions.

• Search
  • ​django-sphinx A full-text search integration with Django using the Sphinx engine
  • ​djapian A full-text search integration with Django using Xapian
  • ​django-search-with-lucene - Django search with Lucene is Tightly integrated the Lucene in Django, so use search content using django model filtering expressions.
  • ​haystack - Modular search for Django.
• CMS (feature comparison available)
  • ​django-cms - A free, BSD-licensed content management system for Django, supporting a hierarchical page structure, internationalization and more. Notice: it doesn't supports Chinese(non-ASCII).
  • ​django-simplecms - A simple cms As Simple As Possible but Extensible.
  • ​django-simple-wiki - A simple, but powerful wiki supporting hierarchy, relations, attachments and permissions.
  • ​django-page-cms A simple multilingual paged cms for Django
  • ​PyLucid CMS - A lightweight content management system. Ideal for Shared-Webhosting: No shell account needed. Run at least with CGI. (GPL)
  • ​django-blocks - An easier way to build Web apps like an blog or CMS more quickly and with almost no code.
  • ​django-taxonomy - A taxonomy tool to integrate in your django sites/CMS. Can also be used as a menu structure.
  • ​Mezzanine - A content management platform built on top of Django with many features including hierarchical pages, blogging, tagging, threaded comments and custom content types. BSD licensed.
  • ​LFC - Lightning Fast CMS - Hierarchical pages, blogging, tagging, threaded comments and custom content types, workflows, role based permissions, multi-languages. BSD licensed.
• Forums and comments (​feature comparison available)
  • ​snapboard - Python Forum/Bulletin-Board for Django
  • ​Sphene Community Tools - (SCT) django forum (bulletin board) and wiki applications which can be easily integrated into custom django projects. BSD.
  • ​Diamanda Wiki and MyghtyBoard Forum: A wiki and forum. GPL.
  • ​django-forum - A lightweight Forum application that plugs straight into your existing Django project.
  • ​comments A comment application to allow users top post comment on your website. Inspired by freecomments.
• Blog apps
  • ​django-diario - A pluggable weblog application for Django Web Framework.
  • ​Blogmaker -A full-featured, production-quality blogging application with support for trackback, ping and comment honeypots
  • ​Byteflow - Extensible Blog Engine with many features and a clean codebase.
• Aggregation, RSS, feeds, lifestreams
  • ​django-simpleaggregation A component which allows for (simplistic) aggregation of data about Django models.
  • ​django-lifestream A generic application for the Django framework that lets you combine multiple RSS and Atom feeds into one lifestream-style page.
  • ​django-feedclowd – The lifestreaming application that powers feedclowd.com
  • ​django-pingback Pingback implementation for Django
• Tagging
  • ​django-tagging - A generic tagging application for Django
• Maps, geo
  • ​django-geo – A generic, easy-to-use location-awareness application.
  • django-googlemap - get your site GoogleMaps-enabled (in development)
  • ​django-worldmap - Displays your data in colorful maps like Wikipedia.
  • ​geodjango-basic-apps - Simple Django Apps highlighting GeoDjango integration
• Hierarchy structures in the database
  • ​Django MPTT - Utilities for implementing Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (MPTT) with your Django Model classes and working with trees of Model instances.
  • ​django-treebeard - 3 different efficient tree implementations: Adjacency List, Materialized Path and Nested Sets. They share the same API, so it’s easy to switch between them.
• Models, database, history, trails
  • ​DMigrate tool to migrate Django databases easily.
  • ​django-mssql An external database backend (based on ado-mssql) that allows MS SQL Server to run against Django-trunk
  • ​django-selectreverse - Model manager to reduce SQL querycount for nested lists with reverse foreignkeys or m2m relations.
  • ​django-fullhistory - Offers an audit trail to be kept for objects being edited, even outside of the admin.
  • ​django-reviews - A generic review application for Django projects, which allows association of a number of reviews with any Model instance and makes retrieval of reviews simple.
• Task, jobs, queues, batch
  • ​django-cron - Djang-Cron is a simple tool that allows you to have cron jobs for you applications. It comes with an example to delete expired sessions, and I have one for django-registration to delete expired users. Django Cron is intended to replace anything you would be adding to a bin directory in your own Django App
  • ​celery - Task queue/Job Queue with Django integration.
  • ​django-queue-service - A lightweight, open-source queueing mechanism along the lines of the Amazon Simple Queue Service.
• Text editing, Wiki
  • ​django-pad - A wiki support multiusers.
  • ​sf-django-wiki - A flexible and embeddable Django wiki engine.
  • ​django-editarea - A text editor with syntax highlighting.
• XML-RPC, Rest, networking
  • ​django-xmlrpc - a means by which a Django developer can expose their views (or indeed any other function) using XML-RPC.
• Forms
  • AutoCompleteSolutions - links to several solutions for integrating JavaScript auto-complete fields
  • ​django-forms-builder - Allows non-technical users to create website forms containing arbitrary sets of fields for data capture
• Templates
  • ​django-dbtemplates - A Template loader for database stored templates with an extensible cache backend
  • ​Zope3 Page Templates - Makes Zope3 Page Templates available to Django sites.
  • ​SimpleTAL Templates - Makes SimpleTAL Page Templates available to Django sites.
• Email integration
  • ​django-email-extras - Provides the ability to send PGP encrypted email and allows non-technical users to manage PGP keys via the Django admin interface, as well as the ability to use the Django templating system to create multi-part emails
  • ​django-flatemails - Django Flatemail System to allow for manageable email templating, much like flat pages.
• Admin
  • ​django-mobileadmin - The Django admin interface optimized for iPhone/iPod touch
  • ​django-maintenancemode - Django-maintenancemode allows you to temporary shutdown your site for maintenance work.
  • ​django-admin-tools - A collection of tools for the django administration interface, it includes a full featured and customizable dashboard, a customizable menu bar and tools to make admin ui theming easier.
• Internationalization
  • ​django-flags - An internationalization helper for django
  • ​django-rosetta - Rosetta is a Django application that eases the internationalization (i18n) process of Django projects.
  • ​django-localeurl - Specify the page language on the URL.
  • ​django-modeltranslation Translate dynamic content of existing models without having to change the original model classes (using a registration approach).
• Media, graphics, images, photos, rights management
  • ​django-licenses - With django-licenses you can give every object a different content license. You can easily manage your licenses and use them in other ways too.
  • ​django-graphviz - Django + Graphiz
  • ​django-dynamic-media-serve - Django Dynamic Media Serve is the good alternative of the default django.views.static.serve for serving the media files in Django.
  • ​django-photologue A Django application for uploading, resizing, organizing, grouping, relating and displaying photographs and image galleries.
  • ​django-imagekit Add "Photologue-style" image processing (resizing, effects, etc.) to your models in a simple, unobtrusive way.
  • ​django-graphs - An extensible graphing engine using the Cairo graphics and FreeType libraries.
  • ​django-flowplayer - Embed multimedia in your pages with flowplayer template tags. Support for playlists, multiple player styles and configurations.
  • ​django-fleshin - Fleshin is a pluggable photo management application for Django Web Framework.
• Calendar
  • ​django-event-calendar A event calendar application component
• Ajax, CSS
  • ​kss.django A django application for integration of AJAX with ​KSS.
• Other applications
  • ​django-voting - A generic voting application for Django
  • GoFlow - A workflow engine for django inspired by the zope2 product Openflow
  • ​django-job-board - A simple pluggable job board for django
  • ​python-piwik - Integrate piwik web analytics / tracker into django with admin integration.
  • ​django-trac - Django Hacks Trac (help django and trac working together)
  • ​django-robots - A simple application for Django to manage robots exclusion files (robots.txt) via admin interface
  • ​django-webproxy - A reverse proxy app in django.

Open-Source Django projects

These are stand-alone applications written using Django.

• ​Django-based projects at Google Code Hosting.
• Community applications, wiki
  • djangoproject.com: See the full code and templates for the Django-powered portions of this site (e.g., everything except the ticket system). The Python code is available under the BSD license, but the templates are copyrighted by World Online and shouldn't be copied.
  • ​Custard/Melt: A work-in-progress community Web app developed by Greenpeace. LGPL.
  • ​Zyons: A forum/community application.
  • ​Sphene Community Tools - (SCT) board and wiki applications which can be easily integrated into custom django projects. BSD.
  • ​WikiCube - 一个类似于 ​http://www.wikispaces.com/ 的站点，适用于小组或者个人做独立的wiki应用.
  • ​OSQA - A question & answer system similar to ​StackOverflow, based on ​CNPROG.
• Photo gallery, photo blog, media, music
  • ​Stockphoto: A simple photo gallery by Jason McBrayer.
  • ​Babik - A django based ​MPD client
  • ​tracka.info - Share media file with small team or family. New BSD.
  • ​Klisha - an open-source and standards-compliant photoblog application for the web.
• Blog, RSS, feeds, aggregation, lifestream, website
  • ​Tmitter - a simple mobile mini blog likes ​Twitter,​Source code.
  • ​Feedjack: A planet/feed aggregator by Gustavo Picón. Sample sites: ​http://django.feedjack.org/, ​http://gnome.feedjack.org/, ​http://newsclick.mobbing-gegner.de/.
  • ​Blog - weblog, portfolio, cv
  • ​Feedme - Another RSS feed aggregator, aimed more for personal use than Feedjack.
  • ​Sleepy Django Build static websites from Django templates.
• Geo, Maps, localisation
  • ​IP-to-country application: Allows you to get the country flag of comments.
• Utilities, tools, admin, file management
  • ​Django Fileman - web based files manager. (using jQuery)
  • ​notmm: Multi-purpose and portable web toolkit for Django (Apache License Version 2.0/BSD-style License.)
  • ​FileBrowser - An extension to the Django admin interface.
  • ​djazz - Application and Utilitiy Collection.
  • ​Djangoutils: Miscellaneous Django utilities.
• Tracker, ticket integration
  • ​tracregator - a Django app which collects tickets from multiple ​trac sites into one page
• System management, networking, monitoring
  • ​djagios.org - Nagios Configuration tool written in Django.
  • ​bcfg2 Dynamic Reports - bcfg2 provides a Reporting Facility based on Django (bcfg2 is a configuration management system like cfengine)
• e-commerce, shopping cart
  • ​Satchmo - the Django e-commerce project. (shopping cart)
  • ​LFS - Lightning Fast Shop - the Django online-shop.
• gaming, games
  • ​Evennia - A feature-liberal MUD server based on Django and Twisted. Heavy web integration, easily scriptable/extendable in Python.
• Topic-specific, business apps, time management, ...
  • ​WorkStyle: A "Get Things Done" to-do list management application.
  • ​FFSomething: A suite for managing open wireless mesh networks
  • ​BookMaker: An open-source Web application for managing small parimutuel betting pools (​Browse source).
  • ​RISE Project (Resources and Information for Success in Education): A project to manage and publish academic catalog information, including programs, courses, and schedules. BSD.
  • ​frePPLe An open source framework for production planning applications, with a Django user interface.
  • ​Voter Universe - Django based voter file analysis and interaction management application for progressive political campaigns and organizations released under AGPL v3.
  • ​GestorPSI - A complete open source system for manage psychology clinics as well school clinics.

General

• RunningDjangoTests: How to run the Django tests
• ​Django API: Autogenerated Django API documentation
• CookBook: Code recipes.
• CommonPitfalls: Common developer errors, gotchas, etc.
• DocumentationSuggestions: A place to put docs that you wish you could have found while learning
• Do's and Dont's for application writers: how to make an application that is easy to distribute
• Mindmap Cheat Sheet for the Generic Views API as described in ​The Django Book (chapter 9).
• ​django-generate-views another way to make views generic along with a demo-site which shows how to wrap views into callable objects: ​Obviews
• FormField documentation for Manipulators
• ExtendedUserModel: How to extend the auth systems's User class to contain extra data. (Warning: kludge!)
• Making Custom form fields: Adventures in making new form fields.
• Custom Upload Fields with Template Filters: extra features for upload fields.
• Developer Documentation: Documentation about the internals of Django.
• User-contributed middleware
• Initial SQL data using Django ORM: How to do it.
• Alter Model's Storage: Automatically changing a table to suit your app & database.
• Using Django and PureFTPd: How to use Django's user database in PureFTPd. Surprisingly
• Working with 3rd Party Apps and Making your Apps Portable: How to setup your project structure, where to put 3rd party apps, development and production setup.
• ​Django & Open Office: An example of how to use Django and Open Office to do advance document templating.
• ThumbNails: Discussion about options for adding thumbnails to Django.
• Dynamic models: Information on creating models at run-time and how to work with them.
• Newforms Howto: Lllama's handy how-do-I guide for newforms admin.
• GetVsPostSplittingAndDjango: Get Vs Post splitting for scaling and Django.

Installing and configuring Django

• ​TurnKey Django: pre-integrated Django installable live CD ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_appliance software appliance
• Server arrangements: How to use Django with FCGI, Twisted, etc.
• Setup on Mac OS X Tiger: Includes installing python 2.4 (which isn't required), the latest version of postgresql, and psycopg.
• WindowsInstall - install django on Windows in 5 minutes (using sqlite and the internal webserver)
• MovablePythonInstall - install Django on a USB stick using Movable Python
• DjangoOnAStick - Install Django on a USB stick.
• DjangoAndNginx - Install Django on Ubuntu with NginX through FastCGI.
• DjangoAndPyPy - Install Django on PyPy.
• ​django-win32service: a django app to manage easily a lightweight web server as a win32 service.
• ​django-cherrypy-odeon: using the cherrypy WSGI server as a production/development server

Development environment

• ​Debugging Django using FirePy (FirePHP): Very good way to debug Django applications with the Firefox extension Firebug, FirePHP.
• ​django-environments: Django "settings inheritance" for different environments, with easy WSGI integration and bash convenience commands for Django, pip, and hg.
• Simple Bash Script To Setup Development Environment: An example of how to set up your development environment.
• 'django-settings' Bash function: Save the typing of DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.
• Django development with Vim: Hints and tips for using the Vim editor.
• A python script for parsing settings.py: A small python script can be used to read, modify, save settings.py file.
• A python script for parsing urls.py: A small python script can be used to read, modify, save urls.py file.
• Profiling Django: How to use the Python hotshot profiler with Django
• Greasemonkey script for djangoproject.com: Shortens titles to faciliate better tab browsing of Django's documentation
• SimpleDebugThroughExceptions: Very simple method for print debug info.
• SimplePrintAppForDebugging: A simple print app for debugging.
• DebuggingDjangoWithWinpdb: Debugging Django apps with Winpdb
• DbDumpScript: A python script can be used for dumpping and loading data from database.
• Dia2Django: A python script to convert uml ​dia diagrams to models.py.
• ​Simple Schema Migration for Django – Simple tool for managing automated schema migrations
• ​Django doctest coverage: Patch so python manage.py test reports code coverage in HTML.
• ​Configuring pydev to work with django: Development django with pydev in Eclipse IDE.
• ​使用Eclipse和Pydev组建Django开发平台: 使用Eclipse和Pydev组建Django开发平台。
• ​How to debug django web application with autoreload.: How to debug django web application with autoreload in Eclipse pydev plugin.
• ​Instant Django. A portable Django development environment for Windows. No installation required, and it can even be run from a USB key.
• ​Multiple configurations How to setup your project with multiple configurations for development, testing and production
• How to collaborate on GitHub in Django context
• ​UML to Django: Python script to convert a UML Class diagram directly into a working Django model and admin interface; no coding involved.

Templates

• ExtendingTemplates - how to extend a template but re-use parts of that template
• ExtendingAdminTemplates
• TemplateTagsCheatSheet - A quick list of all the template tags.
• Using Myghty Templates in Django - How to use Myghty templates in Django
• ​Zope3 Page Templates for Django – Add-on allowing to use ZPT in Django
• PHP template loader - Integrate Django templates into an existing PHP based site
• ​SimpleTAL Templates - Makes SimpleTAL Page Templates available to Django sites as a templating language
• ​Mako and Genshi Templates - Integrate Mako and Genshi with Django (​more info)
• ​GHRML Templates - ​HAML -like syntax for Genshi, which can also be integrated with Django as above

Code examples

• One-step template tags Defining custom template tags with minimal boilerplate code.
• Ajax/DHTML shopping basket in Django example
• ContentBBcode Parser - How-to make pluggable special-tag parser
• Reading Binary Files - How to read Baldurs Gate II character files and display data about the character
• Ajax and Django, using Dojo How to submit a form using Ajax with Dojo.
• Ajax and Django, using YUI How to make ajax work with Django with Yahoo! UI Library.
• ​LDAP Django Auth Backend: Dead-Simple LDAP in Django with Backends
• Add Dojo Editor: How to add a rich-text editor to administration pages with Dojo.
• Custom TinyMCE Widget: How to create a custom TinyMCE widget using django.newforms
• Simple 'scaffolding': Spew out simple form fields as a base for modification
• More about scaffolding: Spew out simple forms for your whole app, including automated urls
• Generic URL Generator: Generate URLs when using generic views
• Model 'middleware': Add pre/post save/delete callbacks to any model.
• Simple Custom Manipulators: Spews out a custom manipulator for your model, primed and ready for tweaking.
• Auto All-Apps Module: Simple package with all the installed app modules underneith it.
• Safe Settings context processor: Provide template access to your settings variables.
• Form Generator: Simple script to spew out a newform from a given model.
• ​How to find items that are not used: doing Left Outer Joins with Django's ORM.
• ​Fun with Django newforms-admin: using the new permissions and queryset hooks in newforms-admin.
• ​Syntax highlighting with Pygments using a template filter in Django: Automatically add color to code in a blog, including choosing a language on a per-code-block basis.

Web services/APIs

• ​Django Rest Interface - A generic REST interface for Django
• FacebookIntegration - Integrating Facebook with Django
• A Google search engine front end in Django tutorial
• XML-RPC Example of doing XML-RPC in Django
• JSON-RPC Example of doing JSON-RPC in Django
• Simplistic_json_rpc-dispatcher A simplistic json-rpc dispatcher-function for Django in 15 lines
• WebServices: An example showing how to access a web service (Amazon.com) using Python.
• FlickrIntegration - One way of integrating flickr with Django
• GoogieSpell - Spell checking ​TextFields with ​GoogieSpell.
• ​Django and AST - Using Django with Amazon Site Thumbnail.
• AmazonSimpleStorageService - Version of FileField which will store your files on amazon's storage service
• ​django-gadgets A contrib that makes easily create Google Gadgets for iGoogle and OpenSocial websites.

Tutorials on the Web

• A list of Django tutorials

Presentations

• Snakes and Rubies Transcript: Currently a partial transcript of the Snakes and Rubies meeting videos.
• DjangoScreencasts: Official and unofficial screencasts showing Django development in action.
• ​Python Web development with Django: A presentation in pseudo-PowerPoint format that provides a good overview.
• ​The Django Web Application Framework: From the ACCU UK Python track, April 2006
• ​Jacob's Google Tech Talk - "Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines"
• ​Tout savoir sur Django (french) - Presentation in June 07 at French Python Days, overview + advanced tips.

Resources in other languages

• Translation grid for documents in '/docs': A work in progress translation project.
• Italian Django Tutorial: An Italian Django tutorial step by step. [Italian]
• Chinese Django Tutorial: A Chinese Django tutorial step by step. [Chinese]
• ​Jarosław Zabiełło Blog: Various Django tips and tutorials [Polish]
• ​Biblioteka Pythona: Polish documentation and examples [Polish]
• ​French translation of Django documentation
• ​Django-fr : French community and documentation.
• ​Django-de : German Django community and documentation.
• ​Django.gr : Greek Django community/user group
• ​Django-no : Norwegian Django community/user group
• ​Django Brasil : Brazilian Django community/user group and documentation.
• ​Django.pl : Polish Django community/user group and documentation.
• Django Brasil Wiki: To organize suggestions and ideas.
• ​Django.es : A Spanish Django community.
• ​Łukasz Anwajler blog : Django snippets and tutorials [Polish]
• ​djangohq: Django news for the German community
• ​Django-cn: Chinese Django site. (based on GAE)
• ​Django Česká republika: Czech translation of Django documentation.
• ​Django-Russian : Russian Django community/user group
• ​PyWeb-IL : Israeli Django, Python and web-app development community/user group.

Community

• ​The Django Forum : A forum devoted to Django development. Good Place to get help with you Django questions.
• ​Django People : A site to help Django developers find like-minded souls near them.
• Developers for hire: Community members available to do Django work.
• Django-friendly Web hosts
• ​Official Django badges
• ​Official Django logos
• DjangoUsers: User community about django.
• ​Pybots: Continuous integration testing of the Django development trunk against latest changes to the Python 2.5 maintenance branch and 2.6 development trunk.
• ​django-hotclub: Forum for discussing Django application development

Jobs & Employment

• ​djangogigs.com: Find Developers. Find Jobs.

Cheat Sheets and Quick Starts

• ​Django Template Cheat Sheet: introductory 3 page, concise, example-based cheat sheet to django templates
• ​Django Url Patterns Cheat Sheet: introductory 2 page, concise, example-based cheat sheet to url patterns, and generic views
• ​Django Model Cheat Sheet: introductory 2 page, concise, example-based cheat sheet to models.Model
• ​Django Forms Cheat Sheet: introductory 2 page, concise, example-based cheat sheet to forms.Form