django-blog-pkg is a simple django blog app to help developers add simple blogs to their main projects. The app allows creating, updating and deleting of posts. It also allows comments on each post. Posts can be grouped under different Tags(categries).
Detailed documentation is found in the docs directory or visit django-blog-pkgdocumentation.
pip install django-blog-pkg
pip install django-crispy-forms
pip install django-ckeditor
# Include the following in your INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
# The following apps are required:
'django.contrib.humanize',
'ckeditor',
'crispy_forms',
'blog',
]
# add the following directly below the INSTALLED_APPS
CKEDITOR_UPLOAD_PATH = 'uploads/'
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap4'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
urlpatterns = [
...
path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
path('ckeditor/', include('ckeditor_uploader.urls')),
...
]
# You can use the URLs provided by blog: `post_list`, `post_detail`, `post_tag`, `post_update`, `post_delete`, `post_create`, `search_blog`, `user_post`
# now add the following lines of code
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
In your Django root execute the command below to create your database tables:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
or http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/create/new/
to create blog posts (you'll need the Admin app enabled).