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============ mtlpy-django

How to setup the environment:

  • Install the packages pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Setup the database running ./manage.py syncdb --migrate
  • Import a base list of posts, categories and users ./manage.py loaddata fixtures/*
  • Setup yourself as a superuser
    • Log in to the admin site as admin (password 'admin')
    • Set a password for yourself, or create your user account if it does not exist.
    • Set yourself as superuser
    • Log out and re-log into the admin as yourself
    • Delete admin account
  • (Optional) Load the posts from the wordpress site (see 'Load from Wordpress' below)
  • (Optional) import the sponsor.ini file by ./manage.py import_sponsors sponsor.ini

Now you are ready to run the server ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Install instructions

  • Clone the repo on the server
  • Run the bootstrap:
    • sudo make bootstrap
  • Change directory to /opt/mp/website
  • Run all make commands as root (run make to get the help)

Help! I am a user but I can't login!

  • You should already exist as a user, but you need an admin to change your password. Ask a friendly pre-existing admin to reset your password from the user page in django-admin.

How to compile the css

  • Install compass gem install compass
  • Excute compass compile at the root folder (the one with the config.rb file)

Load from Wordpress

First you will need a english and a french dump of the old wordpress site. Go to the export tool (http://montrealpython.org/wp-admin/export.php) and pick 'Posts', keep the other options as is. Then do the same but from http://montrealpython.org/wp-admin/export.php?lang=fr for the french dump.

Then, run the following manage.py command:

./manage.py import_xml EN_DUMP FR_DUMP

How to move blog posts from a set of categories to another category

  • Go to /en/blog/transfer_tool/
  • Sign in with staff user
  • Select "from" categories
  • Select "to" category
  • Blog posts in the "from" category will be moved to the "to" category.

How to ensure sponsor logos are converted to grayscale (and properly clear thumbnail cache):

Sorl-thumbnail is used, you will need to clear thumbnail cache. Be careful, this contains rm -rf!!

  • cd
  • rm -rf mtlpy/media/cache/*
  • python manage.py thumbnail clear
  • python manage.py thumbnail cleanup