Aldryn Blog App

Simple blogging application. It allows you to:

write a tagable post message
plug in latest post messages (optionally filtered by tags)
attach post message archive view

Installation

Aldryn Platform Users

Choose a site you want to install the add-on to from the dashboard. Then go to Apps -> Install app and click Install next to Blog app.

Redeploy the site.

Manuall Installation

Run pip install aldryn-blog.

Add below apps to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    …

    'aldryn_blog',
    'aldryn_common',
    'django_select2',
    'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
    'easy_thumbnails',
    'filer',
    'taggit',
    …
]

Posting

You can add post messages in the admin interface now. Search for the label Aldryn_Blog.

In order to display them, create a CMS page and install the app there (choose Blog from the Advanced Settings -> Application dropdown).

Now redeploy/restart the site again.

The above CMS site has become a blog post archive view.

Available Plug-ins