`contrib` packages

This code lives in django/contrib in the Django distribution. This document gives a rundown of the packages in contrib, along with any dependencies those packages have.

Note

For most of these add-ons – specifically, the add-ons that include either models or template tags – you’ll need to add the package name (e.g., 'django.contrib.redirects') to your INSTALLED_APPS setting and rerun manage.py migrate.

The automatic Django administrative interface. For more information, see Tutorial 2 and the .

Requires the auth and contrib packages to be installed.

`auth`

Django’s authentication framework.

See .

`contenttypes`

A light framework for hooking into “types” of content, where each installed Django model is a separate content type.

See the .

Requires the sites contrib package to be installed as well.

A world-class geospatial framework built on top of Django, that enables storage, manipulation and display of spatial data.

See the documentation for more.

`humanize`

A set of Django template filters useful for adding a “human touch” to data.

See the .

`messages`

A framework for storing and retrieving temporary cookie- or session-based messages

See the .

`postgres`

A collection of PostgreSQL specific features.

A framework for managing redirects.

See the .

`sessions`

A framework for storing data in anonymous sessions.

See the .

`sites`

A light framework that lets you operate multiple websites off of the same database and Django installation. It gives you hooks for associating objects to one or more sites.

See the .

`sitemaps`

A framework for generating Google sitemap XML files.

See the .

A framework for generating syndication feeds, in RSS and Atom, quite easily.

Other add-ons

If you have an idea for functionality to include in contrib, let us know! Code it up, and post it to the mailing list.