The toolbar is central to your content editing and management work in django CMS.
Takes you back to home page of your site.
Allows you to switch between different editing modes (when you’re looking at a draft only).
The Publishing controller manages the publishing state of your page - options
are Publish page now , for hitherto unpublished pages, and
a control to switch to Draft
and Live
views.
A toggle to hide and reveal the toolbar.
The x closes the side-frame. To reopen the side-frame, choose one of the links from the Site menu (named example.com by default).
The triangle icon expands and collapses the side-frame, and the next expands and collapses the main frame.
You can also adjust the side-frame’s width by dragging it.
The page list gives you an overview of your pages and their status. By default you get the basics:
The page you’re currently on is highlighted in gray (in this case, Journalism, the last in the list).
From left to right, items in the list have:
If you expand the width of the side-frame, you’ll see more:
To see a page’s basic settings, select Page settings... from the Page menu. If your side-frame is wide enough, you can also use the page edit icon that appears in the Actions column in the page list view.
The page Title will typically be used by your site’s templates, and displayed at the top of the page and in the browser’s title bar and bookmarks. In this case search engines will use it too.
A Slug is part of the page’s URL, and you’ll usually want it to reflect the Title. In fact it will be generated automatically from the title, in an appropriate format - but it’s always worth checking that your slugs are as short and sweet as possible.
Menu title is used to override what is displayed in navigation menus - usually when the full Title is too long to be used there. For example, if the Title is “ACME Incorporated: Our story”, it’s going to be far too long to work well in the navigation menu, especially for your mobile users. “Our story” would be a more appropriate Menu title.
Page title is expected to be used by django CMS templates for the <title> element of the page (which will otherwise simply use the Title field). If provided, it will be the Page title that appears in the browser’s title bar and bookmarks, and in search engine results.
Description meta tag is expected to be used to populate a <meta> tag in the document <head>. This is not displayed on the page, but is used for example by search engines for indexing and to show a summary of page content. It can also be used by other Django applications for similar purposes.
A page’s advanced settings are available by selecting Advanced settings... from the Page menu, or from the Advanced settings button at the bottom of the basic settings.
Most of the time it’s not necessary to touch these settings.