Right now, our django poll app is statically hooked into the project's urls.py. This is not the preferred approach in django CMS. Ideally you attach your apps to CMS pages.
For that purpose you write a CMS app. That is just a small class telling the CMS how to include that app.
CMS apps live in a file called cms_app.py, so go ahead and create one in your poll's app folder.
This is the most basic example for a django CMS app.
from cms.app_base import CMSApp
from cms.apphook_pool import apphook_pool
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
class PollsApp(CMSApp):
name = _("Poll App") # give your app a name, this is required
urls = ["polls.urls"] # link your app to url configuration(s)
apphook_pool.register(PollsApp) # register your appYou can now remove the inclusion of the polls urls in your project's urls.py.
Run/restart your server, add a new page for your app and edit it. Go to ‘Advanced Settings’ and choose ‘Polls App’ for ‘Application’. This will hook your app into that very page. For these changes to take effect, you will have to restart your server. If you reload your page now, you should be presented with your poll app!
Click here to get to step 5 where we're going to install a blog app!