newscenter 1.0.3

A News Release Application for Django

A Django application for creating news releases which can be associated with unique newsroom objects.

A Django CMS apphook is included as well as a templatetag for rendering news release headlines in non-application templates.

Installation

Add newscenter to your python path:

$ pip install newscenter

Add the following to the INSTALLED_APPS of your project’s settings.py:

‘newscenter’,

In your urls.py, add:

(r’^news/’, include(‘newscenter.urls’)),

Run:

syncdb and collectstatic

Template Tag

The template tag can be used like this:

{% load newscenter_tags %}
{% get_news "newsroom-name" %}
<h1><a href="{{ newsroom.get_absolute_url }}">{{ newsroom.name }}</a></h1>
{% for release in featured_list %}
<article>
<h2>{{ release.title }}</h2>
<p class="teaser">{{ release.teaser }}</p>
<p><a href="{{ release.get_absolute_url }}">Read more</a></p>
</article>
{% endfor %}