Django-dress-blog

By Daniel Rus Morales http://danir.us/

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-dress-blog/
• http://github.com/danirus/django-dress-blog/

Yet another Django pluggable blogging app that features:

1. Three different type of posts: Stories, Quotes and Diary Entries.
2. Choose between either 3 or 4 columns layout format.
3. Default theme based on twitter-bootstrap <http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>_.
4. Create new themes without modifying existing code.
5. Posts may be in Draft/Public status, and published in the future.
6. Posts categorized with tags, with django-tagging <http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/>_.
7. Independent paginated list of Stories, Quotes and Comments.
8. Comments managed with django-comments-xtd <http://packages.python.org/django-comments-xtd/>_.
9. Support for inline media with django-inline-media <http://packages.python.org/django-inline-media/>_.
10. Blogroll, Multiple Authors, Search capabilities with django-haystack <http://packages.python.org/django-haystack/>_, and more.

Documentation work in progress, so far the list of features and a screenshot:

• Read The Docs_
• Python Packages Site_

.. _Read The Docs: http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-dress-blog/ .. _Python Packages Site: http://packages.python.org/django-dress-blog/

Install the app and run the example site to see it in action:

1. Create a VirtualEnv for the app
2. Git clone: git clone git://github.com/danirus/django-dress-blog.git
3. Cd into django-dress-blog and install requirements: pip install requirements
4. To have search functionality up & running:
   • Install Xapian >= 1.2, and
   • Copy: cp ../src/xapian-haystack/xapian_backend.py ../src/django-haystack/haystack/backends/
5. If you don't want to have search at the moment just edit django-dress-blog/example/demo/settings.py and comment out "haystack" in INSTALLED_APPS
6. Cd into django-dress-blog/example/demo
7. Run python manage.py collectstatic, and answer 'yes'
8. Run sh install.sh (to syncdb, migrate and loaddata)
9. If you have installed xapian, build the search index:
   • python manage.py rebuild_index
10. Run python manage.py localhost and hit http://localhost:8000

Admin access with user admin, password admin.

Remember, it's a beta yet!