django-tcb-blog

Blogging made easy

Settings

These should go into your settings.py file.

TCB_BLOG_SETTINGS = {
    'RSS_FEED_TITLE': 'Title of the blog',
    'RSS_FEED_LINK': '/blog/',
    'RSS_FEED_ITEM_DESC_TEMPLATE': 'feed/entries.html',
    'API_CONTRACT_VERSION': '1.0.0',
    'SUPPORTED_FRONTEND_VERSIONS': '>=0.31.0 <0.32.0'
}

If you enable django-upload, you can enforce backend upload policy in settings.py:

UPLOAD_ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES = [
    # Images
    'image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/gif',
    # Video
    'video/mp4', 'video/webm', 'video/ogg', 'video/quicktime',
    'video/x-msvideo', 'video/x-ms-wmv', 'video/mpeg',
    'video/3gpp', 'video/3gpp2', 'video/x-matroska', 'video/mp2t',
    # Audio
    'audio/mpeg', 'audio/mp4', 'audio/x-m4a', 'audio/aac',
    'audio/ogg', 'audio/wav', 'audio/x-wav', 'audio/webm',
    'audio/flac', 'audio/x-flac', 'audio/3gpp', 'audio/3gpp2',
    'audio/aiff', 'audio/x-aiff',
]

UPLOAD_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = [
    'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif',
    'mp4', 'webm', 'ogv', 'mov', 'avi', 'wmv', 'mpeg', 'mpg', 'mkv', 'ts',
    'mp3', 'm4a', 'aac', 'ogg', 'wav', 'flac', 'aif', 'aiff',
]

# Default visibility when clients do not send the public flag
UPLOAD_DEFAULT_PUBLIC = True

Quick start

Add “blog” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this

INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'blog',
]

(Optional) Install django-upload from git and add “upload” to INSTALLED_APPS to enable media uploads

pip install "django-upload @ git+https://git.jamesonnetworks.com/JamesonNetworks/django-upload.git@main"

INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'blog',
'upload',
]

Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this

path('blog_api/', include('blog.urls')),

Setup a module named ‘backend’
Using celery.py.sample as a guide, setup celery do that tasks will work
Run python manage.py migrate to create the blog models.
Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

to create a poll (you’ll need the Admin app enabled).
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog_api/ to see something.

Running tests locally

The repository includes a standalone pytest configuration.

Install test dependencies:

pip install pytest pytest-django

Run tests from the repository root:

pytest -q

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