Blog

In this task, you will create a simple Blog project from start to end.

Let's go through all the steps:

1. Create a virtual environment, activate it, and install django via pip.

2. Start project blog_system inside the current directory (add . at the end of the command).

3. Inside py-blog start application blog.

4. Inside blog/models.py create models according to this diagram:

   

5. Edit admin.py:

   • Register all your models in the admin.
   • Unregister Group (you can make it with admin.site.unregister(Group) by importing Group from django.contrib.auth.models).
   • Do the filtering and searching in any way you think is logical.

6. Make migrations and migrate.

7. Use python manage.py test to run tests.

8. Use the following command to load prepared data from the fixture to test and debug your code: python manage.py loaddata blog_system_db_data.json

   Feel free to add more data using the admin panel if needed.

9. Inside blog_system.urls add a path to the blog.urls. Don't forget to specify the namespace.

10. Inside blog.urls create a path for the home page. Give this path the name index.

11. Inside blog.views create a view for the index url. This view returns a list of all posts, in descending order by created_time.

12. Before creating a template, you have to create styles. Create a directory static next to the directory blog. Inside this directory create a file with the following path css/styles.css. Don't forget to do all the necessary steps so that Django can serve these static files.

13. Create a directory templates next to the directory blog. There you will store templates for pages. Edit settings so that engine knows where to look for template source files.

14. Create a template for the main page. On this page, make it so that a list of all posts is displayed. The title and content were displayed, the author was visible when this post was created and the number of comments on the post. Make the post's title a link to the detailed page, which you would implement further.

15. Add pagination for the main page. Set 5 posts on one page by default.

16. Create a PostDetailView view that returns detailed information about the post by the id field.

17. Add a template for this page and url with a path posts/pk/ and name post-detail.

18. On the post detail page, display a list of post comments below this post.

19. Under the list of comments, add a form that allows you to create a new comment to the post.

Please note: only authorized users can post comments. If an anonymous user tries to create a new comment, the form must be invalid.

20. Use crispy forms in your forms to make the website more beautiful.
21. Use python manage.py test to run tests.
22. Don't forget to add the .gitignore file before pushing. Don't push a lot of extra files(venv, pycache, .idea, etc.).

Note: Attach screenshots of all created or modified pages to pull request.

1. Attach screenshots to the comment, NOT in the commit.
2. It's important to attach images not links to them.

Example of the post detailed page

Notice: that example is not a reference! You can make this page in another way.

Note

Follow these steps if you need to use crispy_forms v2.0 with Python 3.11:

1. Add CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK to settings.py.

CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK="bootstrap4"

2. Add these apps to INSTALLED_APPS and install them corresponding to the CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK bootstrap version.

INSTALLED APPS = [
   ...,
   "crispy_bootstrap4",
   "crispy_forms",
]