Magnolia

Magnolia is a Django-based blogging engine

Features

• Rich-text post formatting using the block editor
• Posts tagging
• SEO-friendly URLs
• Searching of posts
• Drafts
• Featured posts
• RSS syndication
• Blog avatar and cover in the page header
• Social contacts
• Pagination

Running

Warning: the following guide is not suitable for production deployment.

0. Install python3 & pip.

1. Clone repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/iriscot/magnolia-blog 
$ cd magnolia-blog

2. Create and enter python environment:

$ python3 -m venv blog_env
$ source blog_env/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set your database in settings.py.

5. Create & execute DB migrations:

$ python3 manage.py makemigrations blog
$ python3 manage.py migrate blog

6. Run the local server:

$ python3 ./manage.py runserver

7. Finally, point your browser to 127.0.0.1:8000 and enjoy :)

Configuration

You can find config in /Magnolia/settings.py. Here are the keys of interest:

• SECRET_KEY - change this to random value when deploying to production;
• DEBUG - set to False on production;
• ALLOWED_HOSTS - add your production host;
• DATABASES - by default file-backed SQLite3 database is configured, change this to your own case;
• LANGUAGE_CODE - default locale;
• TIME_ZONE - default timezone;
• POSTS_PER_PAGE - posts displayed per page.

Translation

Magnolia available on both English and Russian out of the box. However, you can create your own translations.

Create translation files:

$ django-admin makemessages -l [YOUR_LOCALE_CODE]
$ django-admin makemessages -l [YOUR_LOCALE_CODE] -d djangojs