znick/django-pressroom

a blog for django

Pressroom

Simple article management for the Django web framework.

Installation

Offical releases are available from http://pypi.python.org/pypi

easy_install django-pressroom

Tracking the Development Version

The current development version of Pressroom can be checked out via Subversion from the project site using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/mthornhill/django-pressroom.git

If you wish to contribute to pressroom, here is how to set up your development environment

cd django-pressroom
virtualenv . --no-site-packages
source bin/activate
python bootstrap.py
bin/buildout -v
bin/django syncdb
bin/django runscript load_data -v2
bin/django runserver

browse to http://localhost:8000/

Configure Your Django Settings

Add 'pressroom' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...other installed applications,
    'photologue',
    'pressroom',
    'tastypie',
)

Confirm that your MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL, STATIC_ROOT, STATIC_URL settings are correct.

Sync Your Database

Run the Django syncdb command to create the appropriate tables.

Instant Pressroom

To use the included pressroom templates and views you need to first add pressroom to your projects urls.py file. Note: django-photologue (http://code.google.com/p/django-photologue/) is a dependancy of pressroom Note: django-tastypie is a dependancy of pressroom

# urls.py:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
    (r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root),
    (r'^pressroom/', include('pressroom.urls')),
    (r'^photologue/', include('photologue.urls')),
)