djangoblog 👨‍💻

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

Functionality

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

Django Basics

Running the server

The Django server is started via the runserver command.

python3 manage.py runserver

Initialising the Admin Panel with a user

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

PythonAnywhere

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

Adding models to the database

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

Thanks to DjangoGirls for the amazing learning materials