Comments on Hedged down: 3. Customizing the Simple CMS

@minux The first thing you should do is make sure...

2010-10-25T14:01:51.460+11:00

@minux The first thing you should do is make sure your tinymce javascript is being served by Django by testing the link to the actual javascript file. That's the most common problem.

The second problem that people run into is a mistake in the TinyMCE.init function. You can usually tell if that is the problem with the Firebug plugin.

Start with the simplest

There is apparently a typo in page 25 where is sai...

2010-10-25T08:45:35.348+11:00

There is apparently a typo in page 25 where is said src="/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js". It should be src="/tiny_mce.js" to comply with the urls.py instructions. I've seen numerous confustions about this and think worth mentioning.

Apart from that, installing tinymce have buged me for a week or so. I even remove django 1.2.3 and installed 1.1.2 hoping to resolve

I get a syntax error from the urls.py code on page...

2009-07-05T20:32:08.636+10:00

I get a syntax error from the urls.py code on page 23. It seems line 9 miss a round bracket:

(r'^tiny_mce/ [...] '/path/to/tiny-mce' },
should be
(r'^tiny_mce/ [...] '/path/to/tiny-mce' }),

2009-04-08T04:07:00.000+10:00

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You can put all the admin classes in search/admin....

2009-01-11T19:55:00.000+11:00

You can put all the admin classes in search/admin.py. That way you don't need a cms/admin.py and so don't need to add cms to the installed apps in settings. I think this way is a bit better.

I've been following your blog. Reading the chapter...

2008-11-29T16:40:00.000+11:00

I've been following your blog. Reading the chapter first, then your comments on it. I would have benefited greatly having read your comments first, or at least during the chapter. As it was, I searched all over the net found Jason Broyles' site and from that found Tim Huegdon's site. From there I read the 1.0 porting guide on Django's documentation and then glanced over the documentation on the

A couple of things I ran into:

Make sure yo...

2008-11-23T11:58:00.000+11:00

A couple of things I ran into:

Make sure you have 'cms' in settings.py | INSTALLED_APPS, or django won't see the admin.py you create there;

I had to stop/restart the server for the changes to take.

Hi Brett,
that was really helpfull. Many thanks...

2008-08-29T02:05:00.000+10:00

Hi Brett,
that was really helpfull. Many thanks. When do you think you might have the next chapter done?

best regards,
St.john