django2-djeddit 0.3.1.2

Bare bones Django forum application with Reddit like features

Bare bones Django forum application with Reddit like features developed as a Django reusable app.

• comments are ranked using wilson scoring interval and displayed in a collapsable tree structure (using django-mptt)

• voting functionality for threads & comments

• compatible with mobile screen sizes (using Bootstrap)

• users management page for admins

• admins can lock/unlock, edit, delete threads and posts, edit & delete topics

django-registration-redux is recommanded to go along with this app if you need out of the box user registration functionality.

Working demo: http://eatemall.pythonanywhere.com

Documentation: https://django-djeddit.readthedocs.io.

Screenshots

Supported Dajngo versions

The app is currently tested with Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11, 2.0

Quickstart

Install django-djeddit:

pip install django-djeddit

Add it and its dependencies to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'crispy_forms',
    'mptt',
    'djeddit',
    'meta',
    ...
    ]

djeddit_settings to context_processors:

'context_processors': [
    ...
    'djeddit.context_processors.djeddit_settings',
    ...
]

jango-djeddit’s URL patterns:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^', include('djeddit.urls')),
    ...
]

Migrate models:

python manage.py migrate djeddit

Create a topic:

You can use New Topic dialog in topics page if you’re logged in as a superuser or you can create one in a python console:

from djeddit.models import Topic
Topic.objects.create(title='Test Topic')

Credits

Dependencies:

• django-mptt

• crispy_forms

• django-meta

• django-ipware

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter

• cookiecutter-djangopackage

History

0.1.0 (2017-04-15)

• First release on PyPI.

0.1.5 (2017-05-26)

• Added tests for models, forms, views

• Urls that include topic titles with spaces in them don’t work // fixed

• Competability fixes for Django 1.9 and 1.8 and Python 2.7

• client side fixes for added compatibility with mobile screen sizes

• font-awsome fonts are not loading // fixed

• Added description field for Topic model

• moved base.html to root template dir

0.2 (2017-07-04)

• Admins can lock/unlock & delete threads, delete posts

• Admins can edit thread title, url, and post content

• added users management page for admins

• admins can edit & delete topics

• added fields upvotes, downvotes, wsi (Wilson score interval) to Post model

• removed score field from Post model

• comments are ranked using wilson scoring interval

• added comments paging functionality (using “Load n more comments” links)

0.3 (2018-06-02)

• added option to define url prefix in settings.TOPICS_URL for topic & thread pages

• added sitemap support

• added url slugs to threads

• added ip & user agent tracking for posts

• added compatibility to Django 2.0

• added thread stickies (can be added or removed by admins)