Blongo

Blongo is an open-source Blog Web-App built on the Django Web Framework 2.x with Python3

About Blongo

Features

• Generation of Atom and RSS feeds
• Generation of Sitemaps
• Post View Count
• Archive List with Yearly and Monthly categorization
• Tags for post
• Trix Rich Text Editor For Post Content
• Thumbnail/Cover Image for Post(supports image compression)
• Blog Configuration
• Bootswatch 4 themes (themes based on Bootstrap)

Dependencies

• Django
• pytz
• whitenoise
• django-trix-fork

Documentation

Installation

To run Locally/Dev:

1. Create a Python-3.x Virtual Environment Creating Virtual Environments
2. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
3. Create a .env file with required environment variables (Sample -> sample.env)
4. Create database schema python manage.py makemigrations blog
5. Run the migrations python manage.py migrate
6. Create a superuser python manage.py createsuperuser
7. Create default Blog config python manage.py initialize_blog
8. Run Server python manage.py runserver