hexia-blog 1.0.12

A simple Django Blog app.

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Blog
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Blog is a simple Django Blog app.

Blogs can have tags, title, image, short description and a rich text blog.

Tags are created in Admin and Users can then add as many as they like.

Detailed documentation is needs writing.

Quick start
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1. pip install hexia-blog

2. Add "blog" and dependencies to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'ckeditor',
'ckeditor_uploader',
'blog',
]

3. Add "blog.context_processors.hexia_blog" to your context_processors::

'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
...
'blog.context_processors.hexia_blog',
],
},


4. Include the blog URLconf in your project urls.py like this::

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

5. Run `python manage.py migrate` to create the blog models.

6. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
to create a Tag (you'll need the Admin app enabled).

7. There are 5 URLs provided.

<a href="{% url 'blog:blog-detail' object.slug %}">Blog Detail</a> provides the detail of a specific blog.
Template: blog/blog_detail.html

<a href="{% url 'blog:blog-list' %}">Blog List</a> will list all blogs.
Template: blog/blog_list.html

There is a special case of list where 'tag' and/or 'search_string' get be set. When set, only blogs matching
these criteria will be returned. See blog/blog_list.html to see it implemented.

<a href="{% url 'blog:blog-tag-list' tag.slug %}">Tag List</a> provides a list of blogs with the associated Tag.

<a href="{% url 'blog:blog-month-list' month=xx year=yyyy %}">Month List</a> provides a list of blogs within the associated Month.

<a href="{% url 'blog:blog-create' %}">Blog Create</a> will allow you to create a new blog (or you can via admin)
Template: blog/blog_form.html

When using create you must set the blog auther to the user who it is associated with.

7b. There aprev and next blog functions provided

For a given `blog` object you can access the previous and next blog with `blog.prev_blog` and `blog.next_blog`

8. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/.


Settings
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Blog uses AUTH_USER_MODEL as the default user model. It will default to
the Django User model if AUTH_USER_MODEL is not set in settings.py

BLOG_PAGINATION:
The number of blogs shown on a single page when using listing.
Default = 20

Context Processors
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There is a single context_processor provided, 'hexia_blog_tags', which provides a list of all Tags.
It is used in blog_list.html.