Django Newscenter

A Django application for creating news releases which can be associated with unique newsroom objects.

A Django CMS apphook is included as well as a templatetag for rendering news release headlines in non-application templates.

Django 1.7 and up

Installation

Add newscenter to your python path:

$ pip install newscenter

Add the following to the INSTALLED_APPS of your project's settings.py:

'newscenter',

In your urls.py, add:: url(r'^newscenter/', include('newscenter.urls')),

Run:

manage.py migrate

Collect static media:

manage.py collectstatic

Dependencies

The following will be installed automatically if you use pip to install newscenter:

Pillow (http://python-pillow.github.io/)

easy-thumbnails (https://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails)

feedparser (http://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/)

django-endless-pagination (https://github.com/frankban/django-endless-pagination)

For easy-thumbnails, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS and run migrate:: 'easy_thumbnails',
For django-endless-pagination, you'll also need to add it to INSTALLED_APPS:: 'endless_pagination',
You will also need to update your context_processors with:: 'django.core.context_processors.request',

Template Tag

The template tag can be used like this:

{% load newscenter_tags %}
{% get_news "newsroom-name" %}
<h1><a href="{{ newsroom.get_absolute_url }}">{{ newsroom.name }}</a></h1>
{% for release in featured_list %}
<article>
<h2>{{ release.title }}</h2>
<p class="teaser">{{ release.teaser }}</p>
<p><a href="{{ release.get_absolute_url }}">Read more</a></p>
</article>
{% endfor %}

Change Log

Changed in 2.0.0:

In this version, we changed the name of the migrations directories as follows. If you

are using Django 1.7+ and are upgrading to newscenter 2.0.0, you can make sure to remove newscenter from MIGRATION_MODULES in settings.py. If you are using Django 1.6, update the MIGRATION_MODULES as documented above.