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Created by Stephen McDonald <http://twitter.com/stephen_mcd>_

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Overview

Mezzanine is a powerful, consistent, and flexible content management
platform. Built using the Django_ framework, Mezzanine provides a
simple yet highly extensible architecture that encourages diving in
and hacking on the code. Mezzanine is BSD licensed_ and supported by
a diverse and active community.

In some ways, Mezzanine resembles tools such as Wordpress_,
providing an intuitive interface for managing pages, blog posts, form
data, store products, and other types of content. But Mezzanine is
also different. Unlike many other platforms that make extensive use of
modules or reusable applications, Mezzanine provides most of its
functionality by default. This approach yields a more integrated and
efficient platform.

Visit the Mezzanine project page_ to see some of the great sites people have built using Mezzanine_.

Features

In addition to the usual features provided by Django such as MVC
architecture, ORM, templating, caching and an automatic admin
interface, Mezzanine provides the following:

• Hierarchical page navigation
• Save as draft and preview on site
• Scheduled publishing
• Drag-and-drop page ordering
• WYSIWYG editing
• In-line page editing_
• Drag-and-drop HTML5 forms builder with CSV export
• SEO friendly URLs and meta data
• Ecommerce / Shopping cart module (Cartridge_)
• Configurable dashboard_ widgets
• Blog engine
• Tagging
• Free Themes, and a Premium Themes Marketplace
• User accounts and profiles with email verification
• Translated to over 35 languages
• Sharing via Facebook or Twitter
• Multi-lingual sites_
• Custom templates_ per page or blog post
• Twitter Bootstrap_ integration
• API for custom content types_
• Search engine and API_
• Seamless integration with third-party Django apps
• One step migration from other blogging engines
• Automated production provisioning and deployments
• Disqus_ integration, or built-in threaded comments
• Gravatar_ integration
• Google Analytics_ integration
• Twitter_ feed integration
• bit.ly_ integration
• Akismet_ spam filtering
• Built-in test suite_
• JVM_ compatible (via Jython_)

The Mezzanine admin dashboard:

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Support

To report a security issue, please send an email privately to
core-team@mezzaninecms.com_. This gives us a chance to fix the issue
and create an official release prior to the issue being made public.

For all other Mezzanine support, the primary channel is the
mezzanine-users_ mailing list. Questions, comments, issues, feature
requests, and all other related discussions should take place here.

If you're certain you've come across a bug, then please use the
GitHub issue tracker_, however it's crucial that enough information
is provided to reproduce the bug, ideally with a small code sample repo
we can simply fork, run, and see the issue with. Other useful
information includes things such as the Python stack trace generated by
error pages, as well as other aspects of the development environment
used, such as operating system, database, and Python version. If
you're not sure you've found a reproducible bug, then please try
the mailing list first.

Finally, feel free to drop by the #mezzanine IRC channel_ on
Freenode, for a chat! Lastly, communications in all Mezzanine spaces
are expected to conform to the Django Code of Conduct.

Contributing

Mezzanine is an open source project managed using both the Git and
Mercurial version control systems. These repositories are hosted on
both GitHub_ and Bitbucket_ respectively, so contributing is as
easy as forking the project on either of these sites and committing
back your enhancements.

Donating

If you would like to make a donation to continue development of
Mezzanine, you can do so via the Mezzanine Project_ website.

Quotes

• "I'm enjoying working with Mezzanine, it's good work"
  • Van Lindberg, Python Software Foundation chairman
• "Mezzanine looks like it may be Django's killer app"
  • Antonio Rodriguez, ex CTO of Hewlett Packard, founder
    of Tabblo_
• "Mezzanine looks pretty interesting, tempting to get me off
  Wordpress" - Jesse Noller, Python core contributor,
  Python Software Foundation board member
• "I think I'm your newest fan. Love these frameworks"
  • Emile Petrone, integrations engineer at Urban Airship
• "Mezzanine is amazing" - Audrey Roy, founder of PyLadies
  and Django Packages_
• "Mezzanine convinced me to switch from the Ruby world over
  to Python" - Michael Delaney_, developer
• "Like Linux and Python, Mezzanine just feels right" - Phil Hughes,
  Linux For Dummies author, The Linux Journal columnist
• "Impressed with Mezzanine so far" - Brad Montgomery, founder
  of Work For Pie
• "From the moment I installed Mezzanine, I have been delighted, both
  with the initial experience and the community involved in its
  development" - John Campbell, founder of Head3 Interactive
• "You need to check out the open source project Mezzanine. In one
  word: Elegant" - Nick Hagianis_, developer

.. _Django: http://djangoproject.com/
.. _Django Code of Conduct: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
.. _Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/
.. _BSD licensed: http://www.linfo.org/bsdlicense.html
.. _great sites people have built using Mezzanine: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/sites/
.. _Mezzanine project page: http://mezzanine.jupo.org
.. _In-line page editing: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/inline-editing.html
.. _custom content types: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/content-architecture.html#creating-custom-content-types
.. _Cartridge: http://cartridge.jupo.org/
.. _Search engine and API: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/search-engine.html
.. _dashboard: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/admin-customization.html#dashboard
.. _Free Themes: https://github.com/thecodinghouse/mezzanine-themes
.. _Premium Themes: http://mezzathe.me/
.. _@abhinavsohani: https://twitter.com/abhinavsohani
.. _@joshcartme: https://twitter.com/joshcartme
.. _Custom templates: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/content-architecture.html#page-templates
.. _test suite: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#module-mezzanine.core.tests
.. _Multi-lingual sites: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/multi-lingual-sites.html
.. _JVM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine
.. _Jython: http://www.jython.org/
.. _Twitter Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/
.. _Disqus: http://disqus.com/
.. _Gravatar: http://gravatar.com/
.. _Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/
.. _Twitter: http://twitter.com/
.. _bit.ly: http://bit.ly/
.. _Akismet: http://akismet.com/
.. _GitHub: http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/
.. _Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/mezzanine/
.. _mezzanine-users: http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users/topics
.. _core-team@mezzaninecms.com: mailto:core-team@mezzaninecms.com?subject=Mezzanine+Security+Issue
.. _GitHub issue tracker: http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/issues
.. _#mezzanine IRC channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/mezzanine
.. _Freenode: http://freenode.net
.. _Mezzanine Project: http://mezzanine.jupo.org

.. _Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/
.. _Urban Airship: http://urbanairship.com/
.. _Django Packages: http://djangopackages.com/
.. _Hewlett Packard: http://www.hp.com/
.. _Tabblo: http://www.tabblo.com/
.. _The Linux Journal: http://www.linuxjournal.com
.. _Work For Pie: http://workforpie.com/
.. _Van Lindberg: http://www.lindbergd.info/
.. _Antonio Rodriguez: http://an.ton.io/
.. _Jesse Noller: http://jessenoller.com/
.. _Emile Petrone: https://twitter.com/emilepetrone
.. _Audrey Roy: http://cartwheelweb.com/
.. _Michael Delaney: http://github.com/fusepilot/
.. _John Campbell: http://head3.com/
.. _Phil Hughes: http://www.linuxjournal.com/blogs/phil-hughes
.. _Nick Hagianis: http://hagianis.com
.. _Brad Montgomery: http://blog.bradmontgomery.net
.. _Head3 Interactive: http://head3.com
.. _PyLadies: http://www.pyladies.com