django-cms VS Mezzanine

Compare django-cms vs Mezzanine and see what are their differences.

django-cms

The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django (by django-cms)

Mezzanine

CMS framework for Django (by stephenmcd)
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django-cms Mezzanine
3 5
9,899 4,715
1.4% -
9.0 0.0
about 22 hours ago 16 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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django-cms

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-cms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
  • Online Django Development Sprint, October 19-20.
    6 projects | /r/django | 19 Oct 2023
    Repo: https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms
  • Django-cms for multiple websites
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 30 Apr 2022
    How to setup a django-cms project to support multiple websites?
  • 3% of 666 Python codebases we checked had a silently failing unit test
    20 projects | /r/Python | 15 Feb 2022
    https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/pull/358 https://github.com/b12io/orchestra/pull/830 https://github.com/batiste/django-page-cms/pull/210 https://github.com/carpentries/amy/pull/2130 https://github.com/celery/django-celery/pull/612 https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/7241 https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/3867 https://github.com/esrg-knights/Squire/pull/253https://github.com/Frojd/django-react-templatetags/pull/64 https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer/pull/474 https://github.com/jazzband/django-silk/pull/550 https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/16073 https://github.com/ministryofjustice/cla_backend/pull/773 https://github.com/nitely/Spirit/pull/306 https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/1987 https://github.com/rapidpro/rapidpro/pull/1610 https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/22396 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/61647 https://github.com/Swiss-Polar-Institute/project-application/pull/483 https://github.com/UEWBot/dipvis/pull/216

Mezzanine

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mezzanine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-12.
  • Fabric + buildout as opposed to Fabric + pip + virtualenv
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 23 Apr 2022
    I've recently started playing around with Mezzanine, a django-based CMS. I recently just managed to configure Fabric to get it uploading to my host, webfaction.com, as its a bit more involved automatically creating the website on the shared hosting, and I wanted to automate that process.
  • How to deploy Python Scripts to bereveal.com
    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2022
    To give you a better idea of how Python-based applications work on our servers, we’ll show you how to install the Django framework-powered Mezzanine CMS on our platform via SSH.
  • Minimal alternative to Django Oscar?
    4 projects | /r/django | 8 Feb 2022
    There is also Mezzanine / Cartridge which is kinda like WordPress / WooCommerce in the PHP world, it’s primarily for a website that may have a shop added to it. Be aware that this is also somewhat legacy, last time I checked it was kinda in maintenance mode and the variant system for products was super limited.
  • what would be you choice of packages for building an e-commerce site with Django?
    4 projects | /r/django | 9 Jan 2022
    Mezzanine / Cartridge is similar to WooCommerce in the WordPress world, if you are wanting to add a shop to an existing site then this is a decent option. The problem with it is that the main dev on it went off to work for Google so it’s more or less in maintenance mode and the product variant system is very basic.
  • Adding CMS to an existing Django application
    2 projects | /r/django | 6 Sep 2021
    mezzanine is probably a simpler one. it recently just got revived and their 5.0 release is now in rc1 state. There's also django-fiber which seems to be quite simple (not much code, one app to add only)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing django-cms and Mezzanine you can also consider the following projects:

Wagtail - A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

WooCommerce - A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.

Plone - The core of the Plone content management system

FeinCMS - A Django-based CMS with a focus on extensibility and concise code

TYPO3 - The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS

Widgy - A CMS framework for Django built on a heterogenous tree editor.

Umbraco - The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 730.000 websites

Kotti - Kotti is a high-level, Pythonic web application framework based on Pyramid and SQLAlchemy. It includes an extensible Content Management System called the Kotti CMS.

Opps - A Django-based CMS for the magazines, newspappers websites and portals with high-traffic