On a content site these days, especially on a personal project, or where the
team are technical, you often don't want the limitations and complexity of full
CMS. No, you want to use familiar tools: you want to write in Markdown and
manage your content in git.

That doesn't necessarily fit the traditional Django workflow. You end up
looking at a static site. This is fine but you loose the ability of Django to
serve dynamic pages. You have to decide which of the numerous generators
you're going to use, or whether indeed you'll roll your own. It's a bit of a
mess.

You can have the best of all worlds though. Sphinx, yes the
documentation builder, is a super capable static site builder. You can
use it to build your content. Yes it can handle Markdown. Then you can
use Django to serve that content, given auth, forms, interactivity,
custom content, and all the rest of it.

I'm going to show you how.

The talk has two parts: Sphinx and then Django.

• First we'll introduce using Sphinx to manage and build your content.
• We'll look at project setup so you can use Markdown for files.
• We'll organise those on the file system, and use git to manage them, rather
  than a full-blown CMS.
• We'll push to GitHub and use a GitHub Action to build on each commit.
• Then we'll setup Django to serve our Sphinx built content.
• We'll use the DTL to get control over our templates.
• And we'll add auth, to provide dynamic per-user content.

From there, the sky's the limit. Content management never looked so rosy.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvXmV4lY-eM&ab_channel=DjangoConEurope