django-text 1.5.3

Intuitive text editing for the Django Admin.

Intuitive text editing for the Django Admin.

This project is in early development, will change rapidly and most likely has bugs.

Installation

Install the package with pip.

$ pip install django-text

Add text to your installed packages.

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'text',
)

Add text.middleware.TextMiddleware to your middleware.

# settings.py

MIDDLEWARE = (
    # ...
    'text.middleware.TextMiddleware',
)

Make sure these context processors are installed, they come with Django.

# settings.py

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    # ...
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

Append text.urls to your urlpatterns in urls.py.

# urls.py

import text

urlpatterns += url(r'^django_text/', include(text.urls))

Run migrate.

$ python manage.py migrate

Usage

The editable tag

Add editable tags to your templates.

<h1>{% editable "header" "My Header" %}</h1>

<div class="content">
    {% editable "text_body" %}
</div>

The editable tag takes a default text as the second argument. If no default text is passed, the name of the text node (i.e. the first argument) will be used if there is no corresponding text node in the database.

The blockeditable tag

You can also use the blockeditable tag that let’s you wrap content to use as the default text.

<div class="content">
    <h1>
        {% blockeditable "header" %}
            Read My Awesome Text
        {% endblockeditable %}
    </h1>

    {% blockeditable "content" %}
        Put your default text here!
    {% endblockeditable %}
</div>

The blockeditable tags works with translation tags inside of it. So if you already have a translated site, you can wrap your content with this tag and only add text nodes for some of the languages that you support.

Specifying content type

Both the editable and the blockeditable tags support specifying the content type of its default text.

{% editable "html_node" "<h1>Hello World!</h1>" "html" %}

{% blockeditable "markdown_node" "markdown" %}
# Hello there,

I can have markdown in my templates!
{% endblockeditable %}

If this is not provided both will default to raw text.

Content editing

The toolbar allows you to edit texts directly on your pages.

You can also edit texts in the Django Admin.

Missing text nodes will be added to the database automatically when their template tags are rendered.

Settings

AUTOPOPULATE_TEXT

Default: True

Set to false to disable django-text from adding missing text nodes to the database.

TEXT_TOOLBAR_ENABLED

Default: True

Set to false to disable the toolbar interface.

TEXT_TOOLBAR_FORM_PREFIX

Default: 'djtext_form'

This is passed to the toolbar form and can be changed to avoid name conflicts.

TEXT_TOOLBAR_INSTANT_UPDATE

Default: True

Set to false to disable instant updating of the DOM when saving texts in the toolbar.

TEXT_INLINE_WRAPPER

Default: ('<span data-text-name="{0}" class="{1}">', '</span>')

A tuple of two that gets wrapped around texts in the template to enable instant updating.

TEXT_INLINE_WRAPPER_CLASS

Default: 'dj_text_inline_wrapper'

Change this to change the class of the element that gets wrapped around texts.

Contribution

Contribution is very welcome. Use issues to report bugs and propose features.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Anton Agestam. django-text is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information and licenses for bundled code.