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A reusable Django app for managing news/blog entries in different languages.

Project description

A reusable Django app for managing news/blog entries in different languages.

Comes with a django-cms apphook and has been prepared using Django 1.5.1 and django-cms 2.4.1.

This app is based on the great https://github.com/fivethreeo/cmsplugin-blog and re-used some of it’s snippets.

Installation

If you want to install the latest stable release from PyPi:

$ pip install django-multilingual-news

If you feel adventurous and want to install the latest commit from GitHub:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/bitmazk/django-multilingual-news.git#egg=multilingual_news

Add multilingual_news to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'multilingual_news',
)

Run the South migrations:

./manage.py migrate multilingual_news

Usage

Using the apphook

Simply create a django-cms page and select it in the Application field of the Advanced Settings.

Template tags

get_recent_news

To render recent news:

{% get_recent_news limit=5 as recent_news %}
{% include "multilingual_news/recent.html" with object_list=recent_news %}

If you want to render recent news on a news detail page, you might want to exclude the current news from the queryset:

{% get_recent_news exclude=object as recent_news %}
{% include "multilingual_news/recent.html" with object_list=recent_news %}

Settings

NEWS_PAGINATION_AMOUNT

Default: 10

Amount of news entries to display in the list view.

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps:

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
$ mkvirtualenv -p python2.7 django-multilingual-news
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ ./logger/tests/runtests.sh
# You should get no failing tests

$ git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
# Describe your change in the CHANGELOG.txt
$ git add . && git commit
$ git push origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch

Whenever you run the tests a coverage output will be generated in tests/coverage/index.html. When adding new features, please make sure that you keep the coverage at 100%.

Roadmap

Check the issue tracker on github for milestones and features to come.

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