zniper/test-blog

Standard blog engine with core functionalities

Test Blog

test-blog is a standard blog engine. It is built with Python using the Django Web Framework.

This project has the following basic features:

• User registration and authentication
• Post and edit blog entry
• Browse entries with filters (editor or categories)
• Entry list with pagination
• Full-text searching

Technical Notes

• All new code are following PEP8 coding standard.
• Bootstrap 3 with standard theme is integrated.
• Full-text search has been implemented using Haystack and Whoosh as search engine. I decided to user Whoosh over ElasticSearch as the usages are similar but Whoosh will make the deployment faster.
• Haystack is selected by default. To disable it, set USE_HAYSTACK = False in settings file.
• Because of time limitation, I haven't included the (optional) feature of dynamic loading next entries/articles. Which would be implemented using Ajax call at front-end and new view returning the next items in list.
• All forms (login, signup, post, update entry) are made using crispy-forms features.

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/zniper/test-blog.git myblog
cd myblog

Install all dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Create super user if needed:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the django server:

python manage.py runserver

Now, you can browse the site at the address:

http://localhost:8000/