Really Simple Blogging Platform

I made a reusable blog application using Django. It is really simple.

It does tagging, rss, ckeditor rich text entry with image uploads, slugged urls and that's about it.

No comments, no social integration, no trackbacks.

It is pretty customisable though because I'm be using it for two very different blogs.

Install

All within a Django project:

Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'ckeditor',
    'rsbp',
)

Configure ckeditor:

from rsbp.ck_settings import RSBP_CKEDITOR_CONFIG
CKEDITOR_UPLOAD_PATH = os.path.join(MEDIA_ROOT, 'uploads')
CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
    'rsbp': RSBP_CKEDITOR_CONFIG,
}

Customise

Probably the first things you'll want to do are:

• Tweak the templates a bit, you'll probably want to start with templates/rsbp/includes/footer.html

• Tweak the default settings:

  RSBP_IMAGE_UPLOAD_DIR

  Will be appended to your media directory, default: "uploads"

  RSBP_POSTS_PER_PAGE

  How many posts show per page, default: 5

  RSBP_FEED_TITLE

  The title of your rss feed, default: "Blog"

  RSBP_FEED_LINK

  The default link for the rss feed, default: "/"

  RSBP_FEED_DESCRIPTION

  The description of your blog for the rss feed, default: ""

  RSBP_FEED_MAX_ITEMS

  The number of items to publish at any time on your rss feed, default: 10

After that you can go crazy and add:

Custom Post Types

You can add them like this:

models.py:

from rsbp.models import Post
from django import models

class EventPost(Post):

    when = models.DateTimeField()
    description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)

    def feed_title(self):
        return "{0} at {1}".format(self.title, self.when.strftime('%x %X'))

    def feed_description(self):
        return self.description

EventPost.register_type()

admin.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from rsbp.admin import PostAdmin
from .models import EventPost

admin.site.register(EventPost, PostAdmin)

templates/rsbp/event_post.html:

<h2><a href="{% url 'post' post.id post.slug %}">{{ post }}</a></h2>
<div class="rsbp-event">
  {{ post.description|safe }}
</div>
<div class="rsbp-meta">
  {% include rsbp/includes/default_meta.html" %}
</div>