/django_blog

django class based views blog

Primary LanguagePython

A django class based views blog with the following features

  1. CRUD functionality
  2. Both facebook and super user commenting
  3. Post can saved as draft for future published
  4. A simple custom dashboard - will be upgrade later
  5. Slug title
  6. Search
  7. Read post based on user and certain category

Setup In Local Machine

First step- Create a directory or folder for the project where you want to copy this in your local machine.

Open the empty directory or the project folder in an editor and then open the CLI of the editor . In the CLI make sure you are in your exact path of the folder or directory Clone this project or fork and clone your fork url and paste it in the CLI and hit enter

git clone https://github.com/bappi2016/django_blog.git

Then go to the project root directory, here the name is

cd django_blog

Here the django_blog is the project root directory

Second Step- Create a virtual environment in your current directory for this project and activate it Make sure you are in the project root directory that is

pip3 install --upgrade pip
sudo pip3 install virtualenv 
python3 -m venv ./venv

. is used for referring the current directory. Here ./venv will create a virtual environment is this current project directory what exactly we want Check there is a folder or directory created inside the django_startup project directory Now activate the virtual environment.

source venv/bin/activate

If virtual environment successfully activated it will show something like the following line in you CLI (venv) bappi@bappi-pc:~/DJANGO_FOLDER/

Now run and install django

pip install django

Check the version of django

python -m django –version

Migrate the databases ...

python3 manage.py migrate
  1. Start django server locally
python3 manage.py runserver
  1. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in a web browser to see the following webpage.

home page

detail page

blog page

dashboard page

comment section

  1. Quit the server with CONTROL-C in terminal
CONTROL-C

How to use admin panel to manage contents

  1. First create a superuser
python3 manage.py createsuperuser
  1. Now run the server again
python3 manage.py runserver

now go to http://localhost:8000/admin .... type your name and password and login

  1. Now Click on the models to see the tables.