Wagtailpress

A Blog build with Wagtail. Its name is not a reference to Wordpress, but the name wagtail_blog is already taken.

Features

• Index page model
• Article page model
• Authors are defined using Wagtail person
• Tags
• RSS feed for index pages
• Delivred with acceptable templates

Install

Simply install it from pypi.org:

pip install wagtailpress

Add this app and dependencies to django installed app in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # …
    'wagtail.contrib.routable_page',
    'wagtailperson',
    'wagtailpress',
    # …
    ]

Then, finally, apply migration scripts:

./manage.py migrate wagtailpress

Use

This application provide 2 pages models:

• A blog article page: A simple article
• A blog index page: The index of your blog, it list its children articles, their tags and provide a RSS feed

A blog article page got multiple fields:

• Title
• Publication date
• One or some authors
• An intro
• An optional header image
• The content of the article

Development

This source code repository provide a full Django project, so you can easily work with wagtailperson for testing you modifications.

Simply use these two steps in the source code working directory:

./manage.py migrate 
./manage.py runserver 

Test

To run test, simply run this in the root of the source code working directory:

./manage.py test

Licence

LGPLv3

Author(s)

Sébastien Gendre seb@k-7.ch