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27109	Make Flatpage swappable	Vlastimil Zíma	nobody	"It's kind of a long shot, but I give it a try.

Let's make `Flatpage` swappable. I've opened a discussion about the feature at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/WFdCEpB-fMM/6rRae4QLBgAJ. Despite the little support at developers, I suspect the swap would be used once available.

There is a number of attempts to extend the flatpages

 * #18331
 * #23743
 * #26762
 * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/hl4dO1Lxi7Y/aE82ZjNxB-cJ
 * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/XluinfrJaK8/5G2ioMt5HVwJ

Since it is not possible to inherit custom `Flatpage` from an abstract `Flatpage` model, there are two options. Make an extra table which generates join on every use, which is ineffective, or copy the whole `Flatpage` application, which is terrible to maintain. There is number of projects which extends the `Flatpage` by copying the whole model

 * https://github.com/danawoodman/django-flatpages-plus
 * https://github.com/PragmaticMates/django-flatpages-i18n
 * https://github.com/toastdriven/django-superflatpages
 * https://github.com/FUUK/fuuk/tree/master/fuuk/fuflatpages

I assume the lack of support at developers mailing list is caused by developers who needed to extend `Flatpage` already did it one way or another, it most cases by copying the `flatpages` app as is.

The `swappable` is already implemented, so let's use it."	New feature	new	contrib.flatpages	dev	Normal			Ülgen Sarıkavak	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0