Blog Content not loading properly on click 'read more >>'

[srinivas-kini]

Description

Steps to reproduce

• Create a new Blog Config.
• Create a new Blog Category.
• Create a new Article for that Config and Category and save it.
• In CMS, create a new page and select the plugin 'Latest Blog Articles' and add it to the page.
• In the blog preview section on clicking 'read more >>' and navigating to the contents of the individual blog, it does not load the content of the individual blogs.

Versions

djangocms-blog==1.2.3

Expected behaviour

The content of the blogs should be loaded properly.

Additional information

Screenshots

settings.py

PARLER_LANGUAGES = {
    1: (
        {'code': 'en-us'},
    ),
    'default': {
        'fallbacks': ['en-us'],
    }
}

BLOG_AUTHOR_DEFAULT = True
BLOG_AUTO_NAMESPACE = 'Blog'
BLOG_CATEGORY_PLUGIN_NAME = 'Categories'
BLOG_DEFAULT_OBJECT_NAME = 'Article'

META_USE_TWITTER_PROPERTIES = True
META_USE_GOOGLEPLUS_PROPERTIES = True  # django-meta 1.x+
META_USE_SCHEMAORG_PROPERTIES = True  # django-meta 2.x+

[nubenum]

Most likely the same problem as in #52 and #85 and #636 and #354 and #270 and #524 and...

To recap:

Default configuration (BLOG_USE_PLACEHOLDER = True, BLOG_USE_ABSTRACT = True):

• In the article creation popup, you can only write an abstract (!) for the article. This will only be shown in the article overview.
• The actual body of the article must be added via the Django CMS structure menu on the article page (step by step: https://djangocms-blog.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#attach-the-blog-to-a-page)
• Django CMS can be configured to add a text plugin by default, which saves you one step: placeholder without django admin interface?!? #85 (comment)

Simplified configuration (BLOG_USE_PLACEHOLDER = False, BLOG_USE_ABSTRACT = False):

• You can write the body directly in the article creation popup.
• To display a truncated version of the article body instead of an abstract (if BLOG_USE_ABSTRACT = False) in the article overview, you probably want to modify the djangocms_blog/includes/blog_item.html template like so:

<div class="blog-lead">
      {% if not TRUNCWORDS_COUNT %}
          {% render_model post "post_text" "" "" "safe" %}
      {% else %}
          {% render_model post "post_text" "" "" "truncatewords_html:TRUNCWORDS_COUNT|safe"  %}
      {% endif %}
</div>

Bear in mind that the BLOG_USE_{PLACEHOLDER,ABSTRACT} variables in settings.py seem to take effect only for newly created blogs. For existing blogs, you can change these settings via the admin UI: <site name> -> Administration... -> Blog configuration -> <your blog> -> checkboxes under general settings.
Also bear in mind that Latest Blog Articles is not the standard way to add the blog, also see here.