What is postabstract?

A quick demo of Mezzanine's way of injecting custom fields in existing models. postabstract injects a rich text field for post abstract, named abstract.

Requirements

This worked for me with Django 1.4.1 and Mezzanine 1.2.4

Installation

1. Place 'postabastract' in INSTALLED_APPS of your django project's settings file.

2. Place following code in settings file:

   EXTRA_MODEL_FIELDS = () # or replace with existing value
   from postabstract import inject
   EXTRA_MODEL_FIELDS += inject.EXTRA_MODEL_FIELDS
   

3. Run migrations. If first one fails, run the second, then get back to run again the first one, to complete all mezzanine migrations:

   python manage.py migrate mezzanine.blog
   python manage.py migrate postabstract
   

4. Aaand you're done! You should see the abstract field in your django admin for each blog post, just before the featured image (or description). You can now extend/overextend "blog_post_list.html" and change:

   {% editable blog_post.content %}
   {{ blog_post.description_from_content|safe }}
   {% endeditable %}
   

   to:

   {% editable blog_post.abstract %}
   {{ blog_post.abstract|richtext_filter|safe }}
   {% endeditable %}
   

   You may also add this to "blog_post_detail.html" overextension.