newscenter 1.6.1

A News Release Application for Django

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Django Newscenter
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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.

Django 1.5 and up

Installation
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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:
url(r'^newscenter/', include('newscenter.urls')),

For Django <1.6 Run:
``manage.py syncdb`` (or ``manage.py migrate`` if you're using south)

For Djanveo >1.7:

Add or Update the MIGRATION_MODULES dictionary in django settings as follows

MIGRATION_MODULES = {
'newscenter': 'newscenter.migrations_django',
}

Then Run:
``manage.py migrate``

Collect static media:

``manage.py collectstatic``


Dependencies
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The following will be installed automatically if you use pip to install newscenter:

Pillow (http://python-pillow.github.io/)

easy-thumbnails (https://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails)

feedparser (http://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/)

For easy-thumbnails, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS and run syncdb or migrate:
'easy_thumbnails',

Change Log
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New in 1.5.8:
-Added support for Django 1.7

New in 1.4.1:
-Added title field to Contact model

New in 1.4:
-Switched image plugin from popeye to bxslider


Template Tag
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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 %}