Blogging application for your Django site
Install from PyPi:
pip install django-xblog
Using git:
mkdir blog_project
cd blog_project
virtualenv .
. bin/activate
git clone git@github.com:rubeon/django-xblog.git
cd django-xblog
python setup install
This will install xblog and its requirements.
After the above, go through the usual process:
django-admin startproject mysite
cd mysite/
vi mysite/settings
Add the dependencies to INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
# following are for xblog
'django.contrib.sites',
'markdown_deux',
'xblog',
]
# Define a site, if not done already!
SITE_ID=1
MIDDLEWARE = [
# add sites middleware
# ...
'django.contrib.sites.middleware.CurrentSiteMiddleware',
]./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser --username=admin --email=admin@example.com
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.
./manage.py runserver Add a place to your site's root urls.py reach your blog, and don't forget to
add the xblog namespace:
from django.urls import path, include
import xblog.urls
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('blog/', include(xblog.urls, namespace="xblog"),
]XBlog uses the Django authentication framework to keep track of users. Users
are linked to Authors, which can serve as the User profile model.
Author profiles are created automatically in the User model's post_save
signal. See xblog/models.py:create_profile for reference.
XBlog defines the following content blocks:
-
maincontent- the main Blog content with archives, posts, etc. -
rightnav- Blog roll, archive links, etc. -
leftnav- navigation block including ...(FIXME: whut?) -
extrahead- adds meta tags depending on the content being shown:
<title>subcritical.org::{% block subpagetitle %}top{% endblock %}</title>
{% block extrahead %}{% endblock %}subpagetitle- returns title of article or archive
<title>subcritical.org::{% block subpagetitle %}top{% endblock %}</title>pagestyle- can be placed inbodytag for CSS styling:
<body class="{% block pagestyle}{% endblock %}">-
<title>subcritical.org::{% block subpagetitle %}top{% endblock %}</title> {% block extrahead %}{% endblock %}blogheaders- Returns metadata about blog, such as EditURI, author, etc., for you HTML<head>section -
navigation- Can be pulled into your navigation block to allow blog-specific navigation elements:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Top</li>
{% block navigation %}{% endblock %}
</ul>
</nav>