📝 Django Blog Website

A fully-featured, production-ready blog platform built with Django 5.2, designed for speed, scalability, and simplicity.
Deployed seamlessly on Render, using AWS S3 for media storage and WhiteNoise for static files.

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🌐 Live Demo

🔗 Visit the live site

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✨ Features

• 📰 Dynamic Blog Management — Create, edit, and delete posts from the admin panel.
• 🔑 User Authentication — Secure login, signup, and logout.
• 📱 Responsive UI — Optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• ☁ Cloud Storage — Media files stored on AWS S3.
• ⚡ Fast Static File Delivery — Served via WhiteNoise in production.
• 🔒 Secure Configuration — Environment variables handled with python-decouple.
• 🛠 Production Ready — Configured with Gunicorn for deployment.

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🛠 Tech Stack

Backend: Django 5.2, Python 3.12
Database: SQLite (development) / PostgreSQL (production-ready)
Cloud Storage: AWS S3 with django-storages
Static Serving: WhiteNoise
Image Processing: Pillow
Deployment: Render

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📦 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-blog-repo.git
cd your-blog-repo

2️⃣ Create and Activate Virtual Environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Mac/Linux
venv\Scripts\activate      # Windows

3️⃣ Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4️⃣ Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory:

DEBUG=True
SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,127.0.0.1
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_aws_access_key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_aws_secret_key
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=your_bucket_name

5️⃣ Apply Database Migrations

python manage.py migrate

6️⃣ Create Superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

7️⃣ Run Development Server

python manage.py runserver

Your blog is now live at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ 🎉

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🚀 Deployment on Render

Render runs these steps automatically:

Build Command

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start Command

python manage.py migrate && gunicorn Blog.wsgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0:$PORT

Static & Media Files

• Static files served with WhiteNoise

• Media files stored on AWS S3

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📂 Project Structure

Blog/
│── blog/             # Main app with models, views, templates
│── Blog/             # Project settings, URLs, WSGI
│── static/           # Static assets
│── templates/        # HTML templates
│── manage.py         # Django CLI entry point
│── requirements.txt  # Python dependencies
│── .env              # Environment variables (not committed)

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a new branch: git checkout -b feature-name
3. Make your changes and commit: git commit -m "Description of changes" Push to your branch: git push origin feature-name Open a Pull Request

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.