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 publically editable wiki.

Sites using Django

• Django-powered sites: List your Django powered site(s) here!

Example Django application components (with source code/templates)

These are application components that you can plug into any project.

• ​django-databasetemplateloader - A Django template loader which loads templates from the database
• ​django-registration - A simple, generic user-registration application for Django
• ​django-tagging - A generic tagging application for Django
• ​django-voting - A generic voting application for Django
• ​snapboard - Python Forum/Bulletin-Board for Django
• ​Zope3 Page Templates - Makes Zope3 Page Templates available to Django sites.

Example Django projects (stand-alone applications)

These are stand-alone applications written using Django.

• ​Django-based projects at Google Code Hosting.
• 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.
• ​Diamanda Wiki and MyghtyBoard Forum: A wiki and forum. GPL.
• ​Custard/Melt: A work-in-progress community Web app developed by Greenpeace. LGPL.
• ​Django Photo Gallery: A "gallery with a twist" by Georg Bauer.
• ​http://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/CmsProject: A simple CMS by Georg Bauer. (Powers the site ​http://rfc1437.de/.)
• ​http://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/IrcLogger: An IRC logger by Georg Bauer. (Powers the ​Django IRC logs.)
• ​Zyons: A forum/community application.
• ​WorkStyle: A "Get Things Done" to-do list management application.
• ​Stockphoto: A simple photo gallery by Jason McBrayer.
• ​Feedjack: A planet/feed aggregator by Gustavo Picón. Sample sites: ​http://django.feedjack.org/, ​http://gnome.feedjack.org/, ​http://google.feedjack.org/.
• ​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.
• ​IP-to-country application: Allows you to get the country flag of comments.
• ​notmm: A multi-purpose application toolkit. (Apache License Version 2.0 and BSD-style license compatible.)
• ​FileBrowser - An extension to the Django admin interface.
• ​djac - a Django app which collects tickets from multiple ​trac sites into one page
• ​Blog - weblog, portfolio, cv, Sample site: ​http://mezz.spb.ru
• ​Sphene Community Tools - (SCT) board and wiki applications which can be easily integrated into custom django projects. BSD.
• ​djazz - Application and Utilitiy Collection.
• ​djangosnippets.org - Code-sharing site with source code available.
• ​Satchmo - the Django e-commerce project.

General

• ​Django API: Autogenerated Django API documentation
• ​Compilation of Tutorials: Intended to be a complete and concise list of Django tutorials
• 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).
• 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
• ​Djangoutils: Miscellaneous Django utilities.
• 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 painless.
• ​Django & Open Office: An example of how to use Django and Open Office to do advance document templating.

Installing and configuring Django

• 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)
• ​Django, lighttpd and FastCGI: A book-like documentation about running django with Lighttpd
• MovablePythonInstall - install Django on a USB stick using Movable Python
• DjangoOnAStick - Install Django on a USB stick.

Development environment

• 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
• SimplePrintAppForDebugging: A simple print app for debugging.
• DbDumpScript: A python script can be used for dumpping and loading data from database.

Templates

• 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
• ​Cheetah template for django: Generic views + cheetah's admin functions. Contact dj@…. (BROKEN LINK)

Code examples

• 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.

Web services/APIs

• 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
• 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.

Tutorials on the Web

• ​Django Blog: Notifying about new comments by email
• ​Django cheat sheet
• ​Extending Django's database API to include full-text search
• ​WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds
• ​Are you generic?
• ​Sending E-Mails via Templates
• ​Django admin for your PHP app?
• ​Hacking FreeComment
• ​The difference between blank and null
• ​Using Django’s TemplateTags
• ​A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes
• ​Forms With Multiple Inline Objects
• ​Extending Generic Views
• ​Template context processors
• ​Custom SQL In Django
• ​How Django processes a request
• ​Write better template tags
• ​Extending the User model
• ​Django’s Undocumented contenttype app
• ​Django, gzip and WSGI
• ​Django for non-programmers
• ​Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance
• ​Django Templates: An Introduction
• ​Setting up Django on Dreamhost
• ​Django on Windows HOWTO
• ​Django Admin Hack - Fields varying with user permissions
• ​Some django gotchas
• ​Django Templates are not limited
• ​Develop for the Web with Django and Python
• ​An AJAX Select Widget for Django
• ​Using Django’s Free Comments
• ​RSS made stupidly simple
• ​Installing Django on OSX
• ​Blog mit Django: German Weblog-Tutorial

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.

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 Brazil: To organize suggestions and ideias.

Community

• 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.