pelican_admin 0.2

Usage

Insert pelican_admin to the end of your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'pelican_admin',
    ...
)

Don’t forget to sync your db with:

python manage.py syncdb

Or, if you’re using south:

python manage.py migrate pelican_admin

Now, you must tell pelican_admin what’s the path to you pelican blog. In your settings.py you must add:

PELICAN_PATH = '/path/to/your/blog'
PELICAN_SETTINGS = 'your_pelican_settings.py # The default value is 'pelicanconf.py'
PELICAN_BIN = 'pelican' # Path to pelican executable. Default value is '/usr/local/bin/pelican'

Make sure your pelican service is running in autoreload mode:

pelican -s /path/to/pelican/settings -r &

This will have your pelican to reload itself whenever your folder blog changes. Without this configuration, pelican_admin is pretty much useless. So be sure to use it.

If you’re using django-admin-tools there’s a module available where you can manage your pelican service via admin interface. Add pelican_admin to your urls.py:

import pelican_admin

url_patterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^admin_tools/', include('admin_tools.urls')),
        ...
)

urlpatterns += pelican_admin.pelican_urls()

And finally, add pelican_admin’s module to your dashboard.py:

from pelican_admin.modules import PelicanAdmin

class CustomIndexDashboard(Dashboard):

def init_with_context(self, context):
                ...
        self.children.append(PelicanAdmin())

This module is super useful not only to check Pelican’s service status, but also to reload it if any change you made doesn’t load.

The Looks

This is how pelican_admin’s module for django-admin-tools looks like when enabled:

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/fjcaetano/pelican_admin/master/ss1.png

Features

• Settings management: change your pelican settings through Django admin and have it automatically working.

• Posting management: CRUD for blog postings via interface.

• Service management: Manage your pelican service through the admin interface

• Internationalization: pelican_admin is localizable. Currently only pt_BR and en_US are officially supported.

Requirements

• Django 1.4+

• psutil

Installation

I’ll just assume you’re already familiarised with pelican and move on.

Install using pip:

pip install pelican_admin

Or you can clone the project and install it via:

python setup.py install

Check This Out

1. GitHub Repository

2. PyPi package

3. Owner’s website

4. Owner’s Blog