django-nova

Django Nova is a simple newsletter manager for Django.

Features

• Double opt-in
• Multiple newsletters per site
• Template driven email generation
• Built-in click tracking with Google Analytics
• Supports Premailer out of the box
• Full test suite

Requirements

• Django 1.2
• BeautifulSoup
• Mock
• django-html5 (todo: remove dependency)
• Finch (optional)
• Premailer (optional)

Usage

Once installed you can begin creating newsletters and newsletter issues (individual mailings) via the Django admin.

Installation

Install django-nova in your site-packages directory:

# From GitHub
pip install git+git://github.com/DarkHorseComics/django-nova.git#egg=DjangoNova

# From BitBucket
pip install https://bitbucket.org/darkhorse/django-nova

Add django-nova to your installed apps in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'nova',
)

Include the nova.urls in your urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^nova/', include('nova.urls')),
)

Configuration

Nova has a variety of settings.py variables that you can use to change the default behavior.

# Default email used when sending newsletters
NOVA_FROM_EMAIL = 'dhdigital@darkhorse.com'

# If you have not installed premailer set this to False
NOVA_USE_PREMAILER = True

# A list of processors to use when adding context to the newsletter template
NOVA_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ('foo.bar.def',)

Template Integration

Default newsletter templates can be added to your project's template folder and referenced when adding or updating a newsletter object in the Django admin. These tempaltes are loaded using any registered template loaders.

Contributing

Please feel free to fork the repository and create a pull request to have your changes merged back in.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you need help.