newscenter 2.0.10

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 1.7 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')),

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/)

django-endless-pagination (https://github.com/frankban/django-endless-pagination)

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

For django-endless-pagination, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS:
'endless_pagination',

You will also need to update your `context_processors` with:
'django.core.context_processors.request',

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 %}


Change Log
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Changed in 2.0.0:
- In this version, we changed the name of the migrations directories as follows. If you
are using Django 1.7+ and are upgrading to newscenter 2.0.0, you can make sure to
remove newscenter from MIGRATION_MODULES in settings.py. If you are using Django 1.6,
update the MIGRATION_MODULES as documented above.
- https://github.com/ImaginaryLandscape/django-newscenter/issues/4

Renamed Directories:
migrations -> south_migrations
migrations_django -> migrations

- Fixed a depreciation warning in forms.py regarding get_model
- https://github.com/ImaginaryLandscape/django-newscenter/issues/3

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