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A Django Seed Project including Flatpages and a blog.

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Venus

A Django starter project

This repository is a bare-bones Django project intended for use as a website seed. The project currently features two applications, Flatpages and Opstel, a simple blog. TinyMCE has been configured on both the Flatpages and the blog entries.

###Opstel

Opstel is a simple blog application. It features TinyMCE on the Excerpt and Body fields of the Entry model. Disqus is employed for comments, and can be switched on and off per entry.

Rough templates exist to populate a basic functioning site. The blog provides template tags for the following typical blog features:

  1. Recent Entrys: {% get_latest %}
  2. Date-Based Archive: {% entry_list %}
  3. Blog Categories: {% nav_categorylist %}

Blog URLs are completely 'hackable'.

The site admin is pimped with Grappelli and Filebrowser, and uses Pillow for image manipulation.

Running the Project

  1. Clone the repository. git clone git://github.com/davogler/venus.git

  2. Set up a virtual enviroment: mkvirtualenv mynewenv -r requirements.txt (if using Virtualenv and Virtualenvwrapper)

  3. Create a private settings file settings_private.py with the following details and place it in the root directory (note a Disqus API Key will be required.):

     import sys
 import os
 
 ADMINS = ()
 MANAGERS = ADMINS
 SECRET_KEY = ''
 TIME_ZONE = ''
 GRAPPELLI_ADMIN_TITLE = ""
 INTERNAL_IPS = ()
 DISQUS_API_KEY = ''
 DISQUS_WEBSITE_SHORTNAME = ''

  4. Make sure the directory media/uploads exists

  5. manage.py syncdb Placeholder data will populate from two fixtures.