Publish news in django CMS
Project description
Simple news application. It allows you to:
write a tagable news
plug in latest new messages (optionally filtered by tags)
attach news archive view
Installation
Aldryn Platrofm Users
Choose a site you want to install the add-on to from the dashboard. Then go to Apps -> Install app and click Install next to News app.
Redeploy the site.
Manuall Installation
Run pip install aldryn-news.
Add below apps to INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
…
'taggit',
'aldryn_news',
'aldryn_search',
'django_select2',
'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
'easy_thumbnails',
'filer',
'hvad',
'haystack', # for search
…
]
Posting news
You can add news in the admin interface now. Search for the label Aldryn_News.
In order to display them, create a CMS page and install the app there (choose News from the Advanced Settings -> Application dropdown).
Now redeploy the site again.
The above CMS site has become a news archive view.
Available Plug-ins
Latest News Entries plugin lets you list n most frequent news filtered by tags.
Search
If you want the news entries to be searchable, be sure to install aldryn-search and its dependencies. Your entries will be searchable using django-haystack.
You can turn it this behavior off by setting ALDRYN_NEWS_SEARCH = False in your django settings.
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