micropyramid/django-blog-it

django blog - complete customization and ready to use with one click installer

django-blog-it

Simple blog package developed with Django.

Features:

• Dynamic blog articles
• Blog pages
• Contact us page (configurable)
• google analytics
• SEO compliant

Installation

1. Install django-blog-it using the following command:

   pip install django-blog-it
   
   
           (or)
   
   git clone git://github.com/micropyramid/django-blog-it.git
   
   cd django-blog-it
   
   python setup.py install
   

2. Add app name in settings.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
      '..................',
      'simple_pagination',
      'django_blog_it.django_blog_it',
      '..................'
   ]
   

3. Include the django_blog_it urls in your urls.py:

   from django.conf.urls import include
   
   urlpatterns = [
       url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
       url(r'', include('django_blog_it.urls')),
   ]
   

4. After installing/cloning this, add the following settings in the virtual env/bin/activate file to start discussions on blog articles

   You can create your disqus account at https://disqus.com/profile/login/
   
   # Disquss details
   
   DISQUSSHORTNAME="Your Disquss Short Name"
   
   export DISQUSSHORTNAME
   
   # google api key for short url
   
   API_KEY="google api key"
   
   export API_KEY
   
   # google captcha
   
   GOOGLE_CAPTCHA_SITE_KEY="Site key"
   
   export GOOGLE_CAPTCHA_SITE_KEY
   
   GOOGLE_CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY="Secret key"
   
   export GOOGLE_CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY
   
   # Google Analytics Account
   
   GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID="UA-123456789"
   
   export GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID
   
   # Google Login
   
   GP_CLIENT_ID="google client id"
   
   export GP_CLIENT_ID
   
   GP_CLIENT_SECRET="secret key"
   
   export GP_CLIENT_SECRET
   
   # Facebook Login
   
   FB_APP_ID="facebook app id"
   
   export FB_APP_ID
   
   FB_SECRET="023df180c6d868e76a02aec17134c843"
   
   export FB_SECRET
   
   # Default E-mail
   
   DEFAULT_EMAIL="[email protected]"
   
   export DEFAULT_EMAIL
   

5. If you cloned the package from git use virtualenv to install requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

You can try it by hosting on your own or deploy to Heroku with a button click.

Deploy To Heroku:

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We welcome your feedback and support, raise github ticket if you want to report a bug. Need new features? Contact us here

django-blog-it's Issues

Customize django-blog-it

• Model extending

• documentation for customization

  django-blog-it to create your own Blog with additional data.

schema tags

• breadcrumbs, schema
• blog article schema
• author schema

template documentation

good documentation to show ways to implement custom templates.

social login

Image is flowing out of conatainer

Whenever a new blog is posted in the latest blog section image flowing ot of the blog

update documentation

https://readthedocs.org/projects/micro-blog/

menu management

need a configurable header and footer menu

syntax highlighting

we need code highlighter and it can be implemented with https://github.com/odeoncg/django-pygments or such app.

content modification

cannot modify the navigation bar brand name and also can't add navigation bar options !

Image url is chnging randomly

when i'm uploading image it is being saved in 'static/blog/uploads/%Y/%m/%d/' ,,but while retrieving the image url is changing according to slug, .for example i saved image initially in 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/blog/uploads/2019/02/14/IMG_20180822_185720714.jpg' , but when i'm opening ,my blog to for continue reading url changes to 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/data-science-blog/static/blog/uploads/2019/02/14/IMG_20180822_185720714.jpg' . How i can cope up with this .How to use slug field properly.

remove static urls and add named urls

Adding existing tags when editing an article?

Hi, I'm using the django_blog_it, when editing an article with a lot of tags, you have to manually enter these tags, since they do not appear in the tag field. How can I solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.

getting CSRF token missing or incorrect. while leaving comment

Hi, I am getting the following error when leaving a comment for a post

add internationalization with rosetta

need default icon, favicon

i would like to see default favicon and icon and those should be replaceable in dashboard.

deploy to heroku button

single click host to heroku option.

google analytics code to load from env or settings.py

configurable google captcha for contactus page

facebook instant article support

Heroku deploy failing.

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! Error while running '$ python sandbox/manage.py collectstatic --noinput'.
See traceback above for details.
You may need to update application code to resolve this error.
Or, you can disable collectstatic for this application:
$ heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
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add featured image

Facebook Login Not Working

Facebook Login not working at all. Lots of methods not found. Having trouble getting the access token. Please help

not able to change the default like dislike comments section

Hi,

I am unable to see why there are default 123 replies and 23 likes to every new blog added. Can you please tell me about it?

Easy html and css overwriting

First of all, I do not have may experiences with package modification so please be patient.

I need to integrate the app in my project and to have a functional blog page. For this i need a integrated solution but that will use my base.html and design model.

To have possibility to create a new_base.html that will change all the blog-it pages.
More details about CSS classes and how to change the design. At least to have the possibility to change the color pallet.

need good test coverage

https://readthedocs.org/projects/micro-blog/
https://landscape.io/github/MicroPyramid/micro-blog
https://travis-ci.org/MicroPyramid/micro-blog
https://coveralls.io/github/MicroPyramid/micro-blog

add seo

• meta title
• meta description
• meta keywords
• og:image
• og:url
• og:description
• og:title
• canonical url
• meta robots

develop pingback service

blog post history

blog post should have history to see all the actions performed on the post.

add post access to all users

Hi,

I have added the blog to my app but currently, the access to add blog is by the admin only. How do I make sure that anyone i.e all users can add blogs but the admin has the access to flag it for deletion?

thanks

update readme.rst with sufficient info for starters

Documentation

create good documentation in readthedocs.

display post revision history

need option to publish old versions. this just increase the version and add next versoin with the chosen version content

user permissions

users will have 3 roles.

1. Admin
2. Publisher
3. Author

Working example

Does anyone have an example of this code in its working form?

I'm interested to download this Django micro pyramid blog but I am curious to see what it looks like, so I'm hoping someone can share a screenshot of the finished product.

Question: Where are the blog posts?

After creating a post, I don't see any link pointing to it. How do I navigate to the post?

FWIW: We can totally track this down in the source, but it might be helpful to new users to add this in the documentation

ability to add general pages

please support django 2

tag based filters

blog posts should be able to filtered by tags

AMP support

we need option to enable AMP pages for blog detail pages with a separate customizable template/theme

configurable contact us page

trash management

• Move to Trash.
• Restore blog post from trash.
• Delete from trash for permenant deletion.

upload image not working

Hi, I am getting this error for image upload,

Is there a way around this?

Image is not showing in blog

python 3

disqus comments should be configurable from settings

test-issue

test