BinBlogger

◎◎ A comprehensive multi-user blog app

Click on the thumnail to visit the demo

Descriptions

This is a full featured Django Blog App that is customizable and extendable. This App contains almost every fucntionality a multi-user blog needs.

For better view of the project visit the Demo Site.

Blog Features

• Multi User Authentication
• Post CRUD
• Comments and Reply Functionalities
• Search Fuctionalies
• Tag, Categories and top Categories(based on posts count) Functionalities.
• Profile create & Profile Update on registration
• Visual Post editor(medium-editor plugin)
• Featured Post, Popular Posts and Recent posts
• Post views count.
• Redirect alert massages.
• Preview image before upload.
• Auto image optimization on upload.
• Authors page with posts and commnets count.
• Page for posts of individual tag, category and user.
• User Authentication to view pages
• Delete post-thumbnail when post deleted
• Admin Panel &User dashboard with Jquery live search
• Newsleters & Contact Page
• Category multi-select functionalities (Jquery multiselect plugin)
• Python Code syntax highlighter on Details view(Jquery prism plugin)

[❗] Look through the setup process before using this project so that you can avoid errors.

Setup Process

❗Make sure You have python3 and pip installed on your machine.

Step 1

1. Create a folder where you want to clone the project.

   • I am creating a folder named ‘example’ in desktop

2. Now navigate to "example" via cmd or terminal

(Mac)

cd ~/desktop/example

(Windows)

cd C:\Users\YourDesktopName\Desktop\example

Step 2

ℹ️ Optional but better to use a virtual environment for every project.

If don’t have any virtual environment manager installed in your machine then install one. (I will use pipenv)

For installing pipenv run

pip install pipenv

1. Now clone the project and navigate to BinBlogger-master

git clone git@github.com:m-nobinur/BinBlogger.git
cd BinBlogger-master

2. Install all the dependencies for the project.

pipenv install -r requirements.txt

3. Activate the virtual environment

pipenv shell

Step 3

1. Create a .env file in the project directory, open it with your favorite text editor and paste the bellow lines

SECRET_KEY=[YOUR SECRET_KEY]
DEBUG=True
MAILCHIMP_API_KEY=[YOUR MAILCHIMP_API_KEY]
MAILCHIMP_DATA_CENTER=[YOUR MAILCHIMP_DATA_CENTER]
MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_LIST_ID=[YOUR MAILCHIMP_DATA_CENTER]

2. Now generate a secret key for your project.

run python on your shell

python

>>>from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
>>>get_random_secret_key()
>>>[ YOUR SECRET KEY ]

3. Copy the secret key, open .env file again and assign the secret key. If you don't have mailchimp credentials then make sure your file look like this

SECRET_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_KEY
DEBUG=True
MAILCHIMP_API_KEY=''
MAILCHIMP_DATA_CENTER=''
MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_LIST_ID=''

⚠️ make sure not to use any space between the equal(=) sign or any quotations(“) for the secret key

ℹ️ If you want to setup Mailchimp now then go to this section

4. Make a migrations.

python manage.py makemigrations

5. You are all setup, let’s migrate now.

python manage.py migrate

6. Create a superuser to rule the site 😎

python manage.py create superuser

follow the instructions

6. Hahh! Long wait. Let’s visit the site now

python manage.py runserver

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and rock 🤘

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Contribution and Support

Fork the project to contribute and give a star❤️ to support.

Contact

Find me on LinkedIn @mohammadnobinur