Hello,
2 things:
1. setting the allowd markup to everything still produces something like
<h1>Hello world</h1>

and copying the line:
RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS = "forms.Textarea"

gives the following error:

ImproperlyConfigured at /admin/pages/richtextpage/9/
Could not import the value of settings.RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS: forms.Textarea
Request Method:
GET
Request URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/pages/richtextpage/9/
Django Version:
1.6.11
Exception Type:
ImproperlyConfigured
Exception Value:
Could not import the value of settings.RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS: forms.Textarea

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
On 4/22/2015 4:46 PM, Josh Cartmell wrote:
Hi Brandon, hopefully the following are helpful answers!

 1. Title + the publishing controls are present across all things that
    inherit from the Displayable class where as the type of content on
    those various models will vary from class to class.  Blog Posts
    have categories and content, Rich Text Pages just have content,
    Links have no content, etc... All the admin classes of those
    models inherit from Displayable so they end up all having those
    things grouped.  Besides the technical reasons I think the
    consistency is useful and I find it nice to always be able to have
    the publishing controls right there.
 2. The editor is a WYSIWYG, particularly one called TinyMCE. Here's
    what they have to say about accessibility,
    http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/TinyMCE3x:Accessibility, but maybe
    some or all of that isn't working?
    You can change what is used though, for example in your project's
    settings.py file you could put:
    RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS = "forms.Textarea"
    Doing that should get rid of the WYSIWYG and those types of fields
    should just show up as normal HMTL textareas.  That would affect
    any admin user, not just yourself.
 3. There isn't anything like that built in, there might be other
    projects that do things like that for Django that you could
    integrate with Mezzanine.
 4. I don't think we have considered Brython but it should be easy to
    integrate any front end technology you want.  Right now Mezzanine
    ships with Twitter Bootstrap as a frontend framework and I think
    most people, myself included, are very happy with it.  But really,
    Mezzanine doesn't force front end technology on you, it just
    default to Twitter Bootstrap and you can change that easily by
    changing your project's base.html
    Brython does look interesting though so I may have to take a look
    at it at some point!
 5. Mezzanine does have some user account/profile support. Here are
    the docs, http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/user-accounts.html.
    Mezzanine doesn't have any social login support but there are
    quite a few Django apps that do that which you could use to add
    that functionality
 6. I tend to use https://www.digitalocean.com/ (VPS) or
    https://www.webfaction.com/ (shared host).  I've never used it on
    a cPanel host but you do need ssh access to a host to be able to
    deploy Mezzanine.
7. Mezzanine doesn't have plugins in the same sense as Wordpress. You can't install anything through Mezzanine's admin interface
    other than possibly adding some Javascript to the content of
    pages.  Here is a list of modules that have been created for use
    with Mezzanine,
    http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/overview.html#third-party-modules
    but most if not all of them probably require modifying at a
    minimum your projects settings.py file

Here are a few more thoughts:

Mezzanine is Django so anything you can do with Django you can do in Mezzanine. That means that when you look for modules you can cast a wider net than just looking for things that were specifically made for Mezzanine

The following is my opinion and I'm sure my bias towards Mezzanine will show. Mezzanine and Wordpress have fundamentally different philosophies. Wordpress is more targeted at end users by making it easy to install plugins through the admin interface. I tend to think that with a Wordpress site you could get 80% to 90% of the functionality you want with plugins but that last 10% may be very difficult. Mezzanine on the other hand requires you to either have a developer or know how to code yourself. It doesn't try to be all things to all people but does provide a solid core feature set and makes it easy for a Django developer to add missing functionality.

Hopefully that helps. Welcome to Mezzanine and please keep asking questions. Good luck!


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com <mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hello,
    After spending 8 months with wordPress, I am throwing my hands up
    and moving back to my home language python.
    I saw mezzanine was probably the cms that would give me the least
    problems, but I have some questions:
    1. The edit page screen is really messy and difficult to navigate.
    I am using a screen reader, so that may be part of it, but why is
    the publish date stuff right under the title? why is not content
    right under title? I would like to enter the title, hit tab and
    enter the page content. Also, why is the body text editor not a
    multi edit field? The weird thing is that it now is almost
    unusable... I can't use navigation commands to get into it or out
    of it, it says "paragraph editable" while arrowing through each
    line and there is no advantage anywhere for having this. Perhaps
    it is a wysiwyg editor and that is why I don't see anything good
    about it. If so, how can I disable the wysiwyg editor for my account?
    2. Not being able to write html from within the editor is
    horrible, I need to fix it. I spent all last night trying to think
    about how one could change the user permissions on them self, but
    couldn't come up with anything. Perhaps it has to do with the
    backend, but it just seems so unlikely it will never happen.
    3. Is it possible to add short-codes or code within the editor so
    I can access variables and or functions that I have created
    without making a template?
    4. Has mezzanine considered distributing brython along with the
    servers? I can add it, but it would make more sense to have things
    in brython rather than javascript for a python based product...
    5. How is the user account support? I would like to have people
    connect with Facebook or google and grab info from there to
    populate the user's fields on their account pages.
    6. What hosts are easy to use with mezzanine? I am looking for a
    new one and would prefer one with CPanel.
    7. Are all the plugins there on the front page? Is there a way to
    get plugins or templates from within the dashboard? This is
    something that makes wordPress exceptional for quick development.
    Thank you,

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