Django Newscenter

A Django application for creating news releases which can be associated with unique newsroom objects.

A Django CMS apphook is included as well as a templatetag for rendering news release headlines in non-application templates.

Installation

Add newscenter to your python path:

$ pip install newscenter

Add the following to the INSTALLED_APPS of your project's settings.py:

'newscenter',

In your urls.py, add:

url(r'^newscenter/', include('newscenter.urls')),

Run:

manage.py migrate

Collect static media:

manage.py collectstatic

Dependencies

The following will be installed automatically if you use pip to install newscenter:

Pillow (http://python-pillow.github.io/)

easy-thumbnails (https://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails)

feedparser (http://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/)

django-el-pagination (https://django-el-pagination.readthedocs.io/en/latest/start.html)

For easy-thumbnails, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS and run migrate:

'easy_thumbnails',

For django-el-pagination, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS:

'el_pagination',

You will also need to update your context_processors with:

'django.template.context_processors.request',

NB: don't forget to delete any 'endless_pagination' from INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file.

Template Tag

The template tag can be used like this:

{% load newscenter_tags %}
{% get_news "newsroom-name" %}
<h1><a href="{{ newsroom.get_absolute_url }}">{{ newsroom.name }}</a></h1>
{% for release in featured_list %}
<article>
<h2>{{ release.title }}</h2>
<p class="teaser">{{ release.teaser }}</p>
<p><a href="{{ release.get_absolute_url }}">Read more</a></p>
</article>
{% endfor %}

Change Log

3.0.1:

• Compatible with Django 3.2, Python 3.9

2.0.14:

• django-endless-pagination -> django-el-pagination

Changed in 2.0.0:

• In this version, we changed the name of the migrations directories as follows. If you are using Django 1.7+ and are upgrading to newscenter 2.0.0, you can make sure to remove newscenter from MIGRATION_MODULES in settings.py. If you are using Django 1.6, update the MIGRATION_MODULES as documented above.
• #4

Renamed Directories: migrations -> south_migrations migrations_django -> migrations

• Fixed a depreciation warning in forms.py regarding get_model
• #3

New in 1.5.8: - Added support for Django 1.7

New in 1.4.1: - Added title field to Contact model

New in 1.4: - Switched image plugin from popeye to bxslider