This is a basic blogging engine, with the following features:
- Archive views by date, author, category and tags.
- Contents filled by django-fluent-contents
- RSS and Atom feeds
- Granularity in templates to override layouts.
- Abstract base model for custom blog models.
Used applications:
- Categories based on django-categories
- Optional comments based on django.contrib.comments
- Optional multilingual support based on django-parler.
- Optional integration with django-taggit and django-taggit-autocomplete-modified for tag support
- Optional integration with django-fluent-comments for Ajax-based comments
- Optional integration with django-fluent-pages
- Optional integration with django.contrib.sitemaps
TODO:
- Have integration with blog publication protocols (like django-blog-zinnia provides), built in a similar way like django.contrib.syndication works.
First install the module, preferably in a virtual environment:
git clone https://github.com/edoburu/django-fluent-blogs.git cd django-fluent-blogs pip install . # Install the plugins of fluent-contents that you use: pip install django-fluent-contents[text] # Optional: to add tagging support + autocomplete use: pip install django-taggit django-taggit-autocomplete-modified
Add the applications to settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS += (
# Blog engine
'fluent_blogs',
# The content plugins
'fluent_contents',
'fluent_contents.plugins.text',
# Support libs
'categories',
'categories.editor',
'django_wysiwyg',
# Optional commenting support
'django.contrib.comments',
# Optional tagging
'taggit',
'taggit_autocomplete_modified',
)
DJANGO_WYSIWYG_FLAVOR = "yui_advanced"
Note that not all applications are required;
tagging is optional, and so are the various fluent_contents.plugin.* packages.
Include the apps in urls.py:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^admin/util/taggit_autocomplete_modified/', include('taggit_autocomplete_modified.urls')),
url(r'^blog/comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')),
url(r'^blog/', include('fluent_blogs.urls')),
)
The database can be created afterwards:
./manage.py syncdb
In case additional plugins of django-fluent-contents are used, follow their installation instructions as well. Typically this includes:
- adding the package name to
INSTALLED_APPS. - running
pip install django-fluent-contents[pluginname] - running
./manage.py syncdb
To display the blog contents, a fluent_blogs/base.html file needs to be created.
This will be used to map the output of the module to your site templates.
The base template needs to have the blocks:
content- displays the main contenttitle- the<head>title fragment.link- displays<link>tags for RSS feeds.script- includes additional<script>tags.meta-description- thevalueof the meta-description tag.meta-keywords- thevaluefor the meta-keywords tag.og-type- the OpenGraph type for Facebook (optional)og-descriptionthe OpenGraph description for Facebook (optional)
The fluent_blogs/base.html template could simply remap the block names to the site's base.html template.
For example:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block headtitle %}{% block title %}{% endblock %}{% endblock %}
{% block main %}
{# This area is filled with the blog archive/details:
{% block content %}{% endblock %}
{# Add any common layout, e.g. a sidebar here #}
{% endblock %}
When all other block names are already available in the site's base.html template,
this example should be sufficient.
The filename of the base template can also be changed by defining the FLUENT_BLOGS_BASE_TEMPLATE setting.
The commenting support can be based on django.contrib.comments, or any other system of your choice.
To integrate django.contrib.comments with your site theme, also create a comments/base.html template that maps the blocks:
titlecontentextrahead(only for django-fluent-comments)
Optionally, the blog pages can be included in the sitemap.
Add the following in urls.py:
from fluent_blogs.sitemaps import EntrySitemap, CategoryArchiveSitemap, AuthorArchiveSitemap, TagArchiveSitemap
sitemaps = {
'blog_entries': EntrySitemap,
'blog_categories': CategoryArchiveSitemap,
'blog_authors': AuthorArchiveSitemap,
'blog_tags': TagArchiveSitemap,
}
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^sitemap.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
)
To integrate with the page types of django-fluent-pages, don't include fluent_blogs.urls in the URLconf:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^admin/util/taggit_autocomplete_modified/', include('taggit_autocomplete_modified.urls')),
url(r'^blog/comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')), # or fluent_comments.urls
)
Instead, add a page type instead:
INSTALLED_APPS += (
'fluent_pages',
'fluent_blogs.pagetypes.blogpage',
)
A "Blog" page can now be created in the page tree of django-fluent-pages at the desired URL path.
To use Ajax-based commenting features of django-fluent-comments, include it in settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS += (
'fluent_blogs',
'fluent_comments', # Before django.contrib.comments
'django.contrib.comments',
...
)
Include the proper module in urls.py:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^blog/comments/', include('fluent_comments.urls')),
...
)
This module will detect the installation, and enable the moderation features and include the required CSS and JavaScript files to have a Ajax-based commenting system.
To use a different commenting system instead of django.contrib.comments (e.g. DISQUS or Facebook-comments), override the following templates:
fluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments.html
These CSS/JavaScript includes are generated using:
fluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments_css.htmlfluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments_script.html
To change the layout of the blog , the following templates can be overwritten:
In the archive/list page:
fluent_blogs/entry_archive.html- the starting point, which includes all sub templates:fluent_blogs/entry_archive/item.html- a single list item (extendsfluent_blogs/entry_contents_base.html).fluent_blogs/entry_archive/empty.html- the default message when there are no entries.fluent_blogs/entry_archive/pagination.html- the pagination at the bottom of the page.
In the detail page:
fluent_blogs/entry_detail.html- the starting point, which includes all sub templates:fluent_blogs/entry_detail/contents.html- the entry contents (extendsfluent_blogs/entry_contents_base.html).fluent_blogs/entry_detail/widgets.html- space to add Social Media buttons.fluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments.html- the comments.fluent_blogs/entry_detail/navigation.html- the entry navigation linksfluent_blogs/entry_detail/page_footer.html- space below the comments to add Social Media buttons.fluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments_css.htmlfluent_blogs/entry_detail/comments_script.html
Common appearance:
fluent_blogs/entry_contents_base.html- the common appearance of entries in the archive and detail page.fluent_blogs/base.html- the base template, e.g. to introduce a common sidebar.
When the layout of individual entries is shared with
- By default, the contents
fluent_blogs/entry_archive/item.htmland , based onfluent_blogs/entry_archive/item.htmlby default
This applications supports the use of custom models for the blog entries. Include the following setting in your project:
FLUENT_BLOGS_ENTRY_MODEL = 'myapp.ModelName'
This application will use the custom model for feeds, views and the sitemap. The model can either inherit from the following classes:
fluent_blogs.models.Entry(the default entry)fluent_blogs.base_models.AbstractEntry(the default entry, as abstract model)- A mix of
fluent_blogs.base_models.AbstractEntryBasecombined with:
fluent_blogs.base_models.ExcerptEntryMixinfluent_blogs.base_models.ContentsEntryMixinfluent_blogs.base_models.CommentsEntryMixinfluent_blogs.base_models.CategoriesEntryMixinfluent_blogs.base_models.TagsEntryMixin
When a custom model is used, the admin needs to be registered manually. The admin can inherit from either:
fluent_blogs.admin.AbstractEntryBaseAdminfluent_blogs.admin.EntryAdmin
The views are still rendered using the same templates, but you can also override:
myapp/modelname_archive_*.htmlmyapp/modelname_detail.htmlmyapp/modelname_feed_description.html
This module is designed to be generic, and easy to plug into your site. In case there is anything you didn't like about it, or think it's not flexible enough, please let us know. We'd love to improve it!
If you have any other valuable contribution, suggestion or idea, please let us know as well because we will look into it. Pull requests are welcome too. :-)