django-simple-blog is a simple Django app for fast integrating your current project with a blog-system
You can easily write blog posts, let users comment the posts if you'd like to.
You can do any of the following to install django-simple-blog
- Run
pip install django-simple-blog
. - Run
easy_install django-simple-blog
. - Download or "git clone" the package and run
setup.py
. - Download or "git clone" the package and add
simpleblog
to your PYTHONPATH.
Add
simpleblog
to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'simpleblog', ) Note: if you want to customize the templates, please add ``el_pagination`` ``markdown_deux`` ``pagedown`` to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'el_pagination', 'markdown_deux', 'pagedown', 'simpleblog', )
Run
python manage.py migrate
Include the
simpleblog urls
like this to have your "home page" as the blog index:... urlpatterns =[ url(r'^blog/', include('simpleblog.urls')), url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), ]
django-simple-blog
has one setting at the moment:
# How long the length of the textarea should be. MAX_LENGTH_TEXTAREA = 120 (defaults to None)
django-simple-blog
comes with one templatetag for getting
the latest desired number of posts. Just do this in any template:
{% load blog_tags %} {% latest_blog_posts 5 %}
django-simple-blog
is available in english
and swedish
at the moment, feel free to translate the application in another
language.
For writing posts we will use django's admin application.
The templates is just there as examples for how your templates could look like, but they work excellent as well, but if you don't like them, just override them with your own templates simply.
If you have problem getting the right versions of these packages, clone them from their github repository.