Dependencies

Make sure to install these packages prior to installation :

• Python 2.x >= 2.5
• Django >= 1.2
• django-mptt >= 0.4.2
• django-tagging >= 0.3.1
• BeautifulSoup >= 3.2.0

The packages below are optionnal but needed for run the full test suite.

• pyparsing >= 1.5.5
• django-xmlrpc >= 0.1.3

Note that all the dependencies will be resolved if you install Zinnia with pip or easy_install, excepting Django.

Getting the code

You could retrieve the last sources from http://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia and run the installation script

$ python setup.py install

or use pip

$ pip install -e git://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia.git#egg=django-blog-zinnia

For the latest stable version use easy_install

$ easy_install django-blog-zinnia

Applications

Then register zinnia, and these following applications in the INSTALLED_APPS section of your project's settings.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  # Your favorite apps
  'django.contrib.contenttypes',
  'django.contrib.comments',
  'django.contrib.sessions',
  'django.contrib.sites',
  'django.contrib.admin',
  'tagging',
  'mptt',
  'zinnia',)

Template Context Processors

Add these following template context processors if not already present.

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
  'django.core.context_processors.auth',
  'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
  'django.core.context_processors.request',
  'django.core.context_processors.media',
  'zinnia.context_processors.version', # Optional
  'zinnia.context_processors.media',)

Media Files

You have to make a symbolic link from zinnia/media/zinnia directory to your media directory or make a copy named zinnia, but if want to change this value, define ZINNIA_MEDIA_URL in the settings.py as appropriate.

And don't forget to serve this URL.

URLs

Add the following lines to your project's urls.py in order to display the blog.

url(r'^weblog/', include('zinnia.urls')),
url(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')),

Note that the default zinnia URLset is provided for convenient usage, but you can customize your URLs if you want. Here's how :

url(r'^', include('zinnia.urls.capabilities')),
url(r'^search/', include('zinnia.urls.search')),
url(r'^sitemap/', include('zinnia.urls.sitemap')),
url(r'^trackback/', include('zinnia.urls.trackback')),
url(r'^weblog/tags/', include('zinnia.urls.tags')),
url(r'^weblog/feeds/', include('zinnia.urls.feeds')),
url(r'^weblog/authors/', include('zinnia.urls.authors')),
url(r'^weblog/categories/', include('zinnia.urls.categories')),
url(r'^weblog/discussions/', include('zinnia.urls.discussions')),
url(r'^weblog/', include('zinnia.urls.quick_entry')),
url(r'^weblog/', include('zinnia.urls.entries')),
url(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')),

0.9

• Improved URL shortening
• Improved moderation system
• Better support of django-tagging
• Blogger to Zinnia utility command
• OpenSearch capabilities
• Upgraded search engine
• Feed to Zinnia utility command
• And a lot of bug fixes

0.8

• Admin dashboard
• Featured entries
• Using Microformats
• Mails for comment reply
• Entry model can be extended
• More plugins for django-cms
• Zinnia to Wordpress utility command
• Code cleaning and optimizations
• And a lot of bug fixes

0.7

• Using signals
• Trackback support
• Ping external urls
• Private posts
• Hierarchical categories
• TinyMCE integration
• Code optimizations
• And a lot of bug fixes

0.6

• Handling PingBacks
• Support MetaWeblog API
• Passing to Django 1.2.x
• Breadcrumbs templatetag
• Bug correction in calendar widget
• Wordpress to Zinnia utility command
• Major bug correction on publication system
• And a lot of bug fixes

0.5

• Packaging
• Tests added
• Translations
• Better templates
• New templatetags
• Plugins for django-cms
• Twitter and Bit.ly support
• Publishing sources on Github.com

0.4 and before

• The previous versions of Zinnia were not packaged, and were destinated for a personnal use.