Basic blog with djangocms-blog

basic setup for djangocms-blog with Django 2.2, 3 or 3.1

Enabled features:

• Autosetup
• SEO Meta tags
• Taggit

Run from this repo

• clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:yakky/djangocms-blog-poc.git && cd djangocms-blog-poc
• create a virtualenv: python3.7 -mvenv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
• update pip to make sure you are on an up-to-date version: pip3 install setuptools-scm # required by haystack
• install requirements according to the desired django version:
  • pip3 install -r requirements-2.2.txt
  • pip3 install -r requirements-3.0.txt
  • pip3 install -r requirements-3.1.txt
• create database: python manage.py migrate
• create superuser: python manage.py createsuperuser --username=admin
• run the site: python manage.py runserver

Recreate from scratch

• create a site dir: mkdir mysite && cd mysite
• create a virtualenv: python3.7 -mvenv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
• install djangocms-installer: pip install djangocms-installer
• create django CMS site: djangocms -p poc --django-version=stable --cms-version=3.8 blog (or djangocms -p poc --django-version=3.0 --cms-version=stable blog for django 3.0)
• enter new site: cd poc
• edit settings as below
• update pip to make sure you are on an up-to-date version: pip3 install setuptools-scm # required by haystack
• install requirements: pip3 install djangocms-blog
• make sure its dependencies are installed: pip3 install aldryn-search djangocms-bootstrap4 djangocms-file djangocms-googlemap djangocms-icon djangocms-link djangocms-picture djangocms-snippet djangocms-style djangocms-text-ckeditor djangocms-video
• create database python manage.py migrate
• run the site python manage.py runserver
• login with user admin (password: admin)

Blog settings

The settings below assume a djangocms-installer website as many settings are already set by djangocms-installer

• Add the following applications to INSTALLED_APPS after easy_thumbnails in blog/settings.py:

  'aldryn_apphooks_config',
  'parler',
  'taggit',
  'taggit_autosuggest',
  'meta',
  'sortedm2m',
  'djangocms_blog',
  

• Add the following settings at the bottom of blog/settings.py:

  META_SITE_PROTOCOL = 'http'
  META_USE_SITES = True
  
  META_USE_OG_PROPERTIES=True
  META_USE_TWITTER_PROPERTIES=True
  META_USE_SCHEMAORG_PROPERTIES=True
  

• Add taggit urlconf in blog/urls.py:

  urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
      url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),  # NOQA
      url(r'^taggit_autosuggest/', include('taggit_autosuggest.urls')),
      url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
  )