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django-simple-blog

What is it?

django-simple-blog is a simple Django app for fast integrating your current project with a blog-system

You can easily write blog posts, let users comment the posts if you'd like to.

Installation

You can do any of the following to install django-simple-blog

  • Run pip install django-simple-blog.
  • Run easy_install django-simple-blog.
  • Download or "git clone" the package and run setup.py.
  • Download or "git clone" the package and add simpleblog to your PYTHONPATH.

Usage

  1. Add simpleblog and django.contrib.sites to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

         INSTALLED_APPS = [
             ...
             'django.contrib.sites',
             'simpleblog',
         ]
    
    
    Note: if you want to customize the templates, please add ``el_pagination`` ``markdown_deux`` ``pagedown`` to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
    
        INSTALLED_APPS = [
            ...
            'django.contrib.sites',
            'el_pagination',
            'markdown_deux',
            'pagedown',
            'simpleblog',
        ]
    
  2. Add SITE_ID = 1 in your settings.py.

  3. Run python manage.py migrate

  4. Include the simpleblog urls like this to have your "home page" as the blog index:

      ...
    
    urlpatterns =[
        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
        path('blog/', include('simpleblog.urls')),
    ]
    

Settings

django-simple-blog has one setting at the moment:

# How long the length of the textarea should be.

MAX_LENGTH_TEXTAREA = 120 #(defaults to None)

Templatetags

django-simple-blog comes with one templatetag for getting the latest desired number of posts. Just do this in any template:

{% load blog_tags %}

{% latest_blog_posts 5 %}

Translation

django-simple-blog is available in english, swedish and french at the moment, feel free to translate the application in another language.

Admin

For writing posts we will use django's admin application.

The templates

The templates is just there as examples for how your templates could look like, but they work excellent as well, but if you don't like them, just override them with your own templates simply.

Requirements

Django>=1.8

django-el-paginatio>=2.0

simplemathcaptcha>=1.0.3

django-markdown-deux>=1.0.4

django-pagedown>=0.0.5

If you have problem getting the right versions of these packages, clone them from their github repository.

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