A reusable Django app for managing news/blog entries in different languages.

Comes with a django-cms apphook and has been prepared using Django 1.5.1 and django-cms 2.4.1.

This app is based on the great https://github.com/fivethreeo/cmsplugin-blog and re-used some of it's snippets.

If you want to install the latest stable release from PyPi::

$ pip install django-multilingual-news

If you feel adventurous and want to install the latest commit from GitHub::

$ pip install -e git://github.com/bitmazk/django-multilingual-news.git#egg=multilingual_news

Add multilingual_news to your INSTALLED_APPS::

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'multilingual_news',
)

Run the South migrations::

./manage.py migrate multilingual_news

Using the apphook +++++++++++++++++

Simply create a django-cms page and select it in the Application field of the Advanced Settings.

Template tags +++++++++++++

We provide a template tag to render the news entry's placeholder. First import the tag library, then add the tag plus arguments::

{% load multilingual_news_tags %}
{% render_news_placeholder NEWS_ENTRY_OBJECT OPTIONAL_PLACEHOLDER_SLOT OPTIONAL_TRUNCATION %}

To render the first non-empty placeholder (e.g. if the excerpt is empty)::

{% render_news_placeholder news_entry %}

To render the excerpt::

{% render_news_placeholder news_entry 'excerpt' %}

To render the content::

{% render_news_placeholder news_entry 'content' %}

To render and truncate the content (10 words)::

{% render_news_placeholder news_entry 'content' 10 %}

To render and truncate the first non-empty placeholder (20 words)::

{% render_news_placeholder news_entry 20 %}

NEWS_PAGINATION_AMOUNT ++++++++++++++++++++++

Default: 10

Amount of news entries to display in the list view.

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps::

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
$ mkvirtualenv -p python2.7 django-multilingual-news
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ ./logger/tests/runtests.sh
# You should get no failing tests

$ git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
# Describe your change in the CHANGELOG.txt
$ git add . && git commit
$ git push origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch

Whenever you run the tests a coverage output will be generated in tests/coverage/index.html. When adding new features, please make sure that you keep the coverage at 100%.

Check the issue tracker on github for milestones and features to come.