Simple Django Blog

Simple Django Blog app using Markdown

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://djcms-blog.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Works on pure Django
• Markdown blog post format
• Built-in template
• Multiple languages support
• SEO tags supported to customize

Usage

Install

Add the following apps to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    'django.contrib.sitemaps',
    'dj_markdown',
    'simplemde',
    'django.contrib.humanize',
    'djcms_blog',
]

Add django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE

MIDDLEWARE += [
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
]

Define default language and supported languages.

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

LANGUAGES = [
    ('es', 'ES'),
    ('en', 'EN'),
]

Update your urls.py adding blog urls.

from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
from djcms_blog.sitemaps import PostsSitemap

sitemaps = {
    'blog': PostsSitemap,
}

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='sitemap'),
]

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
    url(r'^', include('djcms_blog.urls')),
)

Configuration

You can define the following blog settings in your settings.

DEFAULT_BLOG_ID Define the default blog id to be used in the urls and links.

DEFAULT_URL URL to open the blog

BLOG_TITLE HTML title

ROOT_TITLE Title for links

DJCMS_BLOG_CACHE_TIME Cache time used in public views.

MARKDOWN_CODE_CSS_THEME Code theme for markdown code in the blog.

DEFAULT_COVER_IMAGE Cover image used in blog

DEFAULT_NAVBAR_IMAGE Image used as icon in navigation

Example

In settings.py

# Blog config
DJCMS_BLOG_CACHE_TIME = 0
DEFAULT_BLOG_ID = 1

Contributing

Install dev dependencies

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

Run tests

pytest . --cov=. --cov-report=term-missing

Static Analysis

flake8 .

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.