A blogging platform built on Django and Python – deployable with PythonAnywhere.com.

A list of existing and planned functionality for my DjangoBlog project.

• Build models for article content and link with Django admin console
• Ability to publish posts via the admin console
• Publish new posts via a webform
• Edit existing posts
• Hide the edit functionality for non-authenticated users
• Add tests for requesting index page
• Add tests for requesting an individual post's page
• Add tests for submitting an edit
• Add tests for posting via webform
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions
• Function to create draft posts
• Additional security via Django decorators and login url
• Add comment function

The Django server is started via the runserver command.

python3 manage.py runserver

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

Updating static files (e.g. CSS) must be done manually via the PythonAnywhere bash console using the following command:

python3 manage.py collectstatic

Once you have a user setup, you can access Django's awesome Admin panel at /admin/. For added security this url can be changed to something more obscure via /mysite/urls.py

When creating a new Django project, you must create a models.py file. This file contains the database models. Any additions to the models.py file will only be reflected in the database if you run the following commands:

python3 manage.py makemigrations blog

python3 manage.py migrate blog

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