blogghar

Home for bloggers (Yeah, a really bad pun)

This project is part of the internship assignment by qwikpik.

Feature requirements:

1. Blog – A blog consists of text, images and other media objects and data which could be arranged as required.

2. Tags – Each blog will be having some tags associated with it. (e.g. Name of blog – Trip to paris; could have tags like Europe, France associated with it.) The tags could be added to multiple blogs and a blog could have multiple tags associated with it. User should be able to create, edit and delete the tags.

3. Users – There will be different sets of user having different permission, roles and actions, along with basic profile info about them.

   1. Blogger –

      • Blogger should able to add, create, edit and delete blogs.

      • Add and arrange different text and media elements to the blog.

      • Associate tags with the blogs

   2. Readers – Reader could login into the application. Read,and comment on the blog.

   3. Admin – Admin should be able to control and manage users, blogs, tags and display of blogs

Features included in project:

• User authentication (Using django-allauth)
• Different types of users (Readers/ Bloggers)
• User profile with basic info like avatar and about.
• Role based access control.
• Blog details update functionality.
• Blog publicly inaccessible switch
• Post publish/draft status
• Post create/delete ability
• Post cover (fancy thing nowadays)
• Tags with autocomplete.
• Anyone can read posts (I thought it was too restrictive to let only readers to see posts.)
• User comments (accessible to only users)
• Markdown rendered posts (using python-markdown)
• WYSIYWG Markdown editor using SimpleMDE
• Extended feature of Markdown editor to support image uploads.
• Material design.
• Django Admin support.

Opensource projects used:

• django-allauth
• django-autocomplete-light (3.0.4)
• django-crispy-forms
• MaterializeCSS

Colophon

I did few things for the first time in project. Tried Atom editor (I normally like to stick with subl/pycharm). It is a nice editor, has virtualenv support, nice linter and gutters and other awesome features. I really liked it.

Along with the editor, one major thing I decided to try was django's class based views. I used to stay away from it and stick to fbvs, this is why I decided to write this project using class based views (because where is the fun in doing same thing again and again).

Using class-based-views was a really nice experience. It makes sure that your code is DRY and saves you from repeating same things again and again.

PS: Screenshots are available in directory named screenshots.

PPS: This project was developed for demonstration purpose only. This may not be production-ready.