News plugin for django-cms 2.x

This plugin provides a simple news feature for django-cms 2.0 and newer and and tries to keep it as simple as possible without extras like tagging or categories but while providing a news feed and menu integration.

Setup

• Install django-cms (if you haven't done so already)
• Run pip install cmsplugin-news or download this package and run python setup.py install or add it in some other way to your current PYTHON_PATH
• Add 'cmsplugin_news' to INSTALLED_APPS
• If you're using South execute python manage.py migrate, Otherwise run python manage.py syncdb within your project directory.
• In order to integrate the news-plugin with your website, create a page and add the news application (and optionally the news menu) to it by modifying the relevant "advanced settings" of it.

Last tested with

• django-cms-2.2
• django: 1.3.1

History

0.3c:

• add album support
• forked to Github from https://bitbucket.org/zerok/cmsplugin-news/

0.3:

• Moved to beta phase
• Tested with django-cms 2.0 final

0.2b:

• Various bug fixes

0.2a/0.1a5:

• Adds excerpt to news model