Blog

Blog is a simple Django Blog app.

Blogs can have tags, title, image, short description and a rich text blog.

Tags are created in Admin and Users can then add as many as they like.

Detailed documentation is needs writing.

Quick start

1. pip install hexia-blog

2. Add "blog" and dependencies to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'ckeditor',
       'ckeditor_uploader',
       'blog',
   ]
   

3. Add "blog.context_processors.hexia_blog" to your context_processors:

   'OPTIONS': {
       'context_processors': [
           ...
           'blog.context_processors.hexia_blog',
       ],
   },
   

4. Include the blog URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
   

5. Run python manage.py migrate to create the blog models.

6. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to create a Tag (you'll need the Admin app enabled).

7. There are 5 URLs provided.

   <a href="{% url 'blog:blog-detail' object.slug %}">Blog Detail</a> provides the detail of a specific blog.

   Template: blog/blog_detail.html

   <a href="{% url 'blog:blog-list' %}">Blog List</a> will list all blogs.

   Template: blog/blog_list.html

   There is a special case of list where 'tag' and/or 'search_string' get be set. When set, only blogs matching these criteria will be returned. See blog/blog_list.html to see it implemented.

   <a href="{% url 'blog:blog-tag-list' tag.slug %}">Tag List</a> provides a list of blogs with the associated Tag.

   <a href="{% url 'blog:blog-month-list' month=xx year=yyyy %}">Month List</a> provides a list of blogs within the associated Month.

   <a href="{% url 'blog:blog-create' %}">Blog Create</a> will allow you to create a new blog (or you can via admin)

   Template: blog/blog_form.html

   When using create you must set the blog auther to the user who it is associated with.

7b. There aprev and next blog functions provided

For a given blog object you can access the previous and next blog with blog.prev_blog and blog.next_blog

8. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Settings

Blog uses AUTH_USER_MODEL as the default user model. It will default to the Django User model if AUTH_USER_MODEL is not set in settings.py

BLOG_PAGINATION: The number of blogs shown on a single page when using listing. Default = 20

Context Processors

There is a single context_processor provided, 'hexia_blog_tags', which provides a list of all Tags. It is used in blog_list.html.