News

Article

The next chapter of django CMS starts with our members, past, present and future.

Mike Barrett, elected President of the django CMS Association for 2026 to 2028, thanks Mario Colombo and Joel Burch and sets out three priorities: a more valuable membership, an easier choice for agencies, and meeting in person at DjangoCon Europe.

Article

Hunting Down Quadratic Loops in django CMS

How PR #8913 removed quadratic work from django CMS menus, plugins, and page permissions: a permission-heavy menu on a 4,000-page site went from 11.7 seconds to 105 ms.

Article

One operation, three interfaces: a service architecture for django CMS

How shared content operations could support editors, REST integrations, and AI tools.

Release

django CMS 5.1.3 and 5.0.13 released

We’re pleased to announce the release of django CMS 5.1.3 and django CMS 5.0.13. Both are maintenance releases focused on fixes and improved robustness.

Community news

Inside the Work That Moves django CMS Forward

As the django CMS fellows, we have spent this year so far strengthening that foundation and making new capabilities available to developers and editors.

Tutorials

django CMS 5.1: Your CMS, Your Way — Now Easier to Set Up Than Ever

Setting up a powerful CMS shouldn’t be the hardest part of building a website. With django CMS 5.1, it no longer has to be.

Article

Plugin Architecture Is Editor Experience

Lessons from building the component architecture behind the new django CMS website.

Article

Make Your Django Application Editable

The CMS doesn't need to own your data to make it editable.

Release

django CMS 5.0.11 and 5.1.2 released

Both are patch releases focused on security, stability, and compatibility. We recommend that users of the django CMS 5.0 and 5.1 series upgrade.

Article

The CMS Is Not the Application

Imagine you're building a customer portal. Customers sign in, manage their subscriptions, download invoices, update account details and interact with data from your product.

Then someone asks a perfectly reasonable question: "Can marketing edit the help pages?" You now need a CMS.

Release

django CMS 5.1 is here: easier setup, flexible deployments, and a fresh editing experience

This release reduces friction across the whole project lifecycle: creating a new project, adding django CMS to an existing Django application, configuring larger deployments, controlling which plugins editors can use, and working with the CMS every day.

Release

django CMS 5.0.9 released: security, accessibility, and stability improvements

This release addresses three medium-severity security vulnerabilities and includes improvements to accessibility, Django compatibility, permissions, Content Security Policy support, and general editor stability.

Case Studies

How we built our professional services digital platform using django CMS

Compound Partners is a UK digital consultancy specialising in audience-centric user experience and content architecture for professional services firms. Fifteen years ago, a developer's recommendation pointed us at django CMS. Today, our entire business is built on it.

Release

django CMS 5.0.8 released: a security update everyone should install

We're happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.8. This is primarily a security release, and we strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

Community news

Tiptap, Slots, Security, and 429 PRs: Spring 2026 in django CMS

The django CMS ecosystem has had an exceptionally productive spring. Since March, contributors across the django CMS organization have merged 429 pull requests, delivering major improvements to content editing, security, frontend components, developer tooling, and future platform compatibility.

Addons

Markdown meets django CMS

The default rich text plugins work well for many editorial workflows — but if you regularly deal with long-form content, documentation-like pages, or AI-generated text, a different approach can be far more efficient.

Release

What’s New in django CMS 5.0.7

This release focuses on stability, security, editor experience, and compatibility improvements across the CMS core. It includes fixes for frontend editing, permissions handling, plugin behavior, apphooks, migrations, and performance-related edge cases.

Release

django CMS 3.11 & 4.1 Reach End of Life: Final Patch Releases and What to Do Next

April 2026 officially closed the chapter on two long-standing django CMS LTS branches: 3.11 and 4.1.

Release

Full CKEditor 5 Support Lands in djangocms-text: A Milestone for Rich Text Editing

The final missing piece for djangocms-text-ckeditor5 has arrived: complete support for text-enabled CMS plugins.

Community news

DjangoCon Europe 2026 — A Brief Report

DjangoCon Europe 2026 took place from 15–19 April 2026 at the Athens Conservatoire in Athens, Greece, marking the 18th edition of the conference.

Technical articles

Automating translations with django CMS and DeepL

If you run a multilingual django CMS project, you already know the friction: translating one page is easy, translating fifty pages while keeping structure, plugins, and links consistent is not.

Community news

Markdown meets django CMS

The default rich text plugins work well for many editorial workflows — but if you regularly deal with long-form content, documentation-like pages, or AI-generated text, a different approach can be far more efficient.

Release

django CMS 4.1.10 Released: Stability Improvements for django CMS 4.1 LTS

We're pleased to announce the release of django CMS 4.1.10, a maintenance update for the Django 4.2 LTS branch.

Release

django CMS 5.0.6 Released – Maintenance Update for our current LTS Version

We’re happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.6, a focused bug fix and compatibility release that improves stability, compatibility, and overall reliability.

Release

🚀 django CMS 5.1 Alpha Is Here — A Fresh Look and Greater Flexibility

This release introduces a refreshed user interface, powerful new configuration flexibility, and improved plugin control.