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Aldryn Addons Framework

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Aldryn addons are re-usable django apps that follow certain conventions to abstract out complicated configuration from the individual django website project into upgradable packages. With this approach it is possible to avoid repetitive “add this to INSTALLED_APPS and that to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES and add these to urls.py” work. The settings logic is bundled with the Addon and only interesting “meta” settings are exposed.

aldryn-addons is a framework to utilise such Addons in django projects.

The goal is to keep the footprint inside the django website project as small as possible, so updating things usually just mean bumping a version in requirements.txt and no other changes in the project.

Installation & Updates

Aldryn Platform Users

Nothing to do. aldryn-addons is part of the Aldryn Platform.

Manual Installation

Add aldryn-addons to your projects requirements.txt or pip install it. It is also highly recommended to install aldryn-django. This is django itself bundled as an Addon.

pip install aldryn-addons aldryn-django==1.6.11

settings.py

At the top if the settings the following code snippet:

INSTALLED_ADDONS = [
    'aldryn-django',
]

# add your own settings here that are needed by the installed Addons

import aldryn_addons.settings
aldryn_addons.settings.load(locals())

# add any other custom settings here

urls.py

Addons can automatically add stuff to the root urls.py so it’s necessary to add aldryn_addons.urls.patterns() and aldryn_addons.urls.i18n_patterns(). The code below is for Django 1.8 and above. For older versions of Django, please add the prefix parameter to i18n_patterns: i18n_patterns('', ...

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
import aldryn_addons.urls


urlpatterns = [
    # add your own patterns here
] + aldryn_addons.urls.patterns() + i18n_patterns(
    # add your own i18n patterns here
    url(r'^myapp/', include('myapp.urls')),
    *aldryn_addons.urls.i18n_patterns()  # MUST be the last entry!
)

Please follow the installation instructions for aldryn-django for complete integration. Then follow the setup instructions for aldryn-cms for the examples below.

Adding Addons

In this example we’re going to install Aldryn Newsblog, which requires django CMS.

pip install the Addon:

pip install aldryn-newsblog

Add it to INSTALLED_ADDONS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_ADDONS = [
    'aldryn-django',
    'aldryn-cms',
    'aldryn-newsblog',
]

Copy aldryn_config.py and addon.json from the Addon into the addons directory within your project (addons/aldryn-newsblog/aldryn_config.py and addons/aldryn-newsblog/addon.json). If aldryn_config.py defines any settings on the settings Form, put them in addons/aldryn-newsblog/settings.json, if not put {} into it.

You are all set. The code in aldryn_config.py will take care of configuring the Addon.

Contributing

This is a community project. We love to get any feedback in the form of issues and pull requests. Before submitting your pull request, please review our guidelines for Aldryn addons.

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