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Simple SEO Module for Django

Project description

Simple seo backend for Django. Inspired by django-seo ( https://github.com/willhardy/django-seo ) but found it quite complex for the simple functionality it was intended for.

django-simple-seo aims to attach a model to your views with just 4 simple lines of code and everything configured by the admin.

What’s in django-simple-seo

  • Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and Django 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6

  • View Autodiscovering

  • Pure Django Models and Django Fields implementation, no metaclasses in action

  • Don’t reinvent the wheel: as long as they are django models you can use the goodies out there

  • i18n with django-vinaigrette, django-linguo, django-modeltranslation, etc.

  • Cache can be activated internally, but can also be used with johnny-cache, django-cache-machine, etc.

  • Easily extendible as far as it’s all about simple django models and fields

  • Out-of-the-box models for OpenGraph Facebook and Twitter tags

  • Support for UrlFields and ImageFields in admin

  • Test app included (.testapp)

assets/simple_seo_admin.png

What’s NOT in django-simple-seo

  • Only implements view based backend. Maybe in future releases it will include Model and Path backend like in DjangoSeo. The attribute ‘populate_from’ is neither implemented yet.

Installation

You can use pip like this:

$ pip install django-simple-seo

You can use pip with git master code instead of pypi version:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/danigosa/django-simple-seo.git

Add to your settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'simple_seo',
...
)

Requeriments

  • staticfiles

  • south (optional, if migrations)

  • admin (this includes auth, sessions and contenttypes)

1. Create your SEO Model

Create a model subclassing the classes BaseMetada(title, author, description, keywords), OpenGraphMetada(includes facebook tags) or AllMetadata(Facebook and Twitter). You must use register to register the model.

from simple_seo.models import AllMetadata
from simple_seo import register


class MyMetadata(AllMetadata):
    """
    My Seo Model
    """

# Register SEO Model
register(MyMetadata)

2. Synchronize your DB

Synchronize your database with syncdb or migrate depending on your case:

$ ./manage.py syncdb

3. Register your model for administration

Add this lines to your admin.py:

from simple_seo.admin import BaseMetadataAdmin
from django.contrib import admin
from .models import MyMetadata


class MyMetadataAdmin(BaseMetadataAdmin):
    pass

admin.site.register(MyMetadata, MyMetadataAdmin)

4. Add metadata for your views

Your views are autodiscovered for your convenience, create a metadata object for every view you want to administer

assets/simple_seo_admin2.png

5. Add metadata to your template

Just include this template tag in your <head> section:

{% load simple_seo %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    {% view_metadata %}
</head>
<body>
TEST
</body>
</html>

6. Extend/Override default behaviour

“I prefer to have images as URLs, not static files in my server”

Just override og_image attribute. You can find all base models in simple_seo.models, and all tag fields in simple_seo.fields:

from simple_seo.fields import URLMetaTagField, MetaTagField
from simple_seo.models import AllMetadata
from simple_seo import register


class MyMetadata(AllMetadata):
    """
    My Seo Model
    """
    og_image = URLMetaTagField(name="og:image")  # Overrides default og:image field
    another_meta_tag = MetaTagField(name="myvariable", max_length="25")  #  Creates a new custom meta tag for the views

# Register SEO Model
register(MyMetadata)

7. Cache Settings

Some settings are provided to enable caching directly in the app:

SEO_CACHE_PREFIX = getattr(settings, 'SEO_CACHE_PREFIX', 'simple_seo:')
SEO_CACHE_TIMEOUT = getattr(settings, 'SEO_CACHE_PREFIX', 60 * 60 * 24)
SEO_USE_CACHE = getattr(settings, 'SEO_CACHE_PREFIX', False)

8. Sample App

You have a complete sample app in testapp module in this repository.

9. Multilang i18n Support

As said before you can apply any 3rd party app for translating your models to django-simple-seo models. As an example, this is a complete model translated thanks to django-vinaigrette app: https://github.com/ecometrica/django-vinaigrette

Complete SEO model translated:

from simple_seo.models import AllMetadata
from simple_seo import register
import vinaigrette


class SiteMetadata(AllMetadata):
    """
    Site Metadata
    """

    class Meta:
        app_label = 'web'

# Register SEO Model
register(SiteMetadata)


vinaigrette.register(
    SiteMetadata,
    [
        'title',
        'description',
        'keywords',
        'author',
        'og:title',
        'og:description',
        'twitter:title',
        'twitter:description',
    ]
)

After that, just run ./manage.py makemessages and you’re done. See django-vinaigrette for more details.

10. Contribute!

Then add to the root of the project your local_settings.py for everything your need, for instance adding debug toolbar local setting:

INTERNAL_IPS = ('10.0.2.2', )

To execute the project with vagrant and virtualbox you can add this Vagrantfile and receipes to the local project and execute vagrant up:

https://gist.github.com/danigosa/c2ac2d349c4fcf823cb7

After box is provisioned you’ll have an Ubuntu 14.04 with a Python 3.4 virtualenv.

You can find more info of how to develop with remote vagrant servers and the awesome Pycharm IDE here: http://codeispoetry.me/index.php/remote-server-with-pycharm-and-vagrant/

Changelog

version 0.2.4

  • Bugfix error in print_tag that did not printed images and urls in templatetag

version 0.2.3

  • Bugfix error in caching when i18n activated

version 0.2.2

  • Bugfix errors in view autodiscover in some cases

Version 0.2.1

  • Bugfixes

  • Support for South Migrations

Version 0.2

  • Added support for namespaced views

  • Added support for ImageField based Image Metatags (og:image, twitter:image)

  • Added support for UrlField based URL Metatags (og:url, twitter:url)

  • Added more base classes to ease setup

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