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The Happiest CMS in the world

Quokka is a Content Management Framework written in Python.

A lightweight framework to build CMS (Content Management System) as websites, portals, blogs, applications and anything related to publishing content to the web.

Quokka is not limited to CMS area, it is also possible to create Quokka extensions to provide any kind of web application based on Python and Flask.

Quokka can also (optionally) generate a static website from the contents generated in its admin interface.

Features

Web based content management admin interface
Multiple content formats (markdown, rst, html, plaintext)
Compatibility with any of the Pelican Themes
Flat file NoSQL database TinyDB or optionally MongoDB for scale deployments
Host the Quokka on server or generate a static website
Extensible via modules/plugins
Powered by Python, Flask, Flask-Admin, TinyMongo and Pelican Themes

Demo

Use this if you want to see how Quokka works

docker run --rm -it -p 5000:5000 quokka/quokka

Go to http://localhost:5000/admin and login using admin/admin

Quick Start

NOTE: QuokkaCMS requires Python 3.6+

To install and run for development mode

Use this if you want to contribute to quokka, PyPi releases will be provided soon.

git clone https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka cd quokka python3 -m venv venv . venv/bin/activate pip3 install --upgrade pip make install make adduser make devserver

then access http://localhost:5000 and http://localhost:5000/adminedit the quokka/project_template/quokka.yml and start contributing to the code!

NOTE: In dev mode the project in quokka/project_template/ is used and a database is created inside it.

To install for use/deployment

NOTE: this project is a Work In Progress, consider installing in development mode

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install -e git+https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka.git#egg=quokka
quokka init mysite
cd mysite
quokka adduser
quokka runserver

Using Quokka CMS

Start a project

$ quokka init NewWebsite --theme=flex --modules=gitpages,heroku ...

🐹 Quokka project created 🐹 📝 Name: NewWebsite 📁 Location: /tmp/newwebsite 📚 Template: default 🎨 Themes: flex theme installed 🚚 Modules: [gitpages, heroku] installed 🔧 Config: Config file written in /tmp/newwebsite/quokka.yml ➡ Go to /tmp/newwebsite ⚙ run quokka runserver to start! 📄 Check the documentation on http://quokkaproject.org 🐹 Happy Quokka! 🐹

YES! it outputs emojis 🐹

The above command will generate your project in myproject folder as:

. ├── databases # TinyDB database files (gitignored) ├── modules # Custom modules to load on EXTRA_EXTENSIONS ├── static_build # output static site ├── themes # Front-end Themes (Pelican and Quokka Themes supported) ├── uploads # Media uploaded via admin ├── .gitignore # gitignore to exclude sensitive files ├── quokka.yml # Project settings ├── .secrets.yml # To store keys, tokens and passwords (gitignored) └── wsgi.py # To deploy gunicorn wsgi:app

You can optionally pass arguments:

Choose existing theme (the default is Malt)

quokka init mywebsite --theme http://github.com/user/theme

Install modules

quokka init mywebsite --theme http://github.com/user/theme --modules="commerce,foo"

the above looks for quokka_commerce and quokka_foo in PyPI and installs it

Set important configurations

quokka init mywebsite --theme http://github.com/user/theme --config="auth_enabled=false"

That is optional, you can to edit quokka.yml to tune your settings.

Create an admin user

Run your website

quokka runserver --port 5000

Access admin interface

http://localhost:5000/admin

Access your site

http://localhost:5000

Deploy

You can deploy your Quokka Website in a WSGI server

Check the wsgi.py and refer to it when deploying in wsgi servers.

cd myproject gunicorn wsgi:app -w 4 -b "0.0.0.0:8000"

An example of supervisord config

[program:quokka] command=/myproject/venv/bin/gunicorn wsgi:app -w 4 -b "0.0.0.0:8000" directory=/myproject

For more information read Gunicorn documentation

Publish Static HTML website

NOTE: To generate a static website all user management, keys and passwords will be removed from settings.

You can generate a static HTML website to host anywhere

Once you have your website running locally you can easily generate a static HTML website from it.

$ quokka publish --static [--output path] Generating static HTML website on ./static_build folder

Once you have a ./static_build folder populated with static website you can deploy it using SCP, FTP or git, it is a full static website.

Deploying to github pages from command line

NOTE: You need either ssh key access to github or it will ask login/password

quokka publish --static --git=rochacbruno/mysite --branch=gh_pages

The above is also available in admin under 'publish' menu.

Deploying via SCP

quokka publish --static --scp --dest='me@hostname:/var/www/mysite' [--sshkey ~/.ssh/key] [--password xyz] password : ...

Deploying to Heroku

This requires heroku client installed, if Procfile is not found it will be generated

quokka publish --static --heroku --options

Deploying via FTP

quokka publish --static --ftp --host='ftp://server.com' --dest='/var/www/mysite'

Load database from remote deployment (only for TinyDB)

When you publish a static website along with the static files the database also goes to the server under the databases/ folder only as a backup and snapshot.

You can load that remote database locally e.g: to add new posts and then re-publish

quokka restoredb --remote --git=rochacbruno/mysite Creating a backup of local database... Downloading remote database Restoring database.. Done...

Now you can run quokka runserver open your localhost:5000/admin write new content and then Publish website again using command line or admin interface.

NOTE: If you want to restore a local database use --local and --path path/to/db

Using MongoDB

You can choose to use MongoDB instead of TinyDB, That is useful specially if you deploy or local instance has more than one admin user concurrently and also useful if you want to install plugins which support MongoDB only (because it relies on aggregations and gridfs)

You only need a running instance of Mongo server and change quokka.yml:DB on your project from:

quokka: DB: system: tinydb folder: databases

to:

quokka: DB: system: mongodb name: my_database host: 127.0.0.1 port: 2600

Then when running quokka again it will try to connect to that Mongo Server.

With that you can deploy your site on wsgi server or can also generate static website.

Running mongo in a Docker container

cd your_quokka_project_folder docker run -d -v $PWD/databases:/data/db -p 27017:27017 mongo

wait some seconds until mongo is started

quokka runserver

Contributing to Quokka CMS Development

Do you want to be part of this open-source project?

Take a look at Contributing Guidelines

Setup a contributor environment

Ensure you have Python3.6+ fork this repo and:

git clone https://github.com/$YOURNAME/quokka cd quokka

create a Python3.6 virtual env

make create_env

activate the venv

. venv/bin/activate

install Quokka in --editable mode (using pbr)

make install

Create a new admin user

make adduser

run quokka

make devserver

Access http://localhost:5000/admin and http://localhost

ROADMAP

This list is available on https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka/issues

This is the list of tasks to be completed until 1.0.0 can be released. support 100% coming only for malt and bootstrap3 themes

Screenshots

The main Admin page

Pelican themes compatible

An article showing in Malt theme

The same article using Bootstrap 3 theme

See more on screenshots on #647

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