Skeleton project for Django applications.

Django version: 1.7.8

Pre configured Python/Django features:

• Advanced page and data cache examples
• Using of HTML minifiers and assets compressions
• Database optimised Model examples
• Robots.txt and dynamic generation of sitemaps
• Advanced usage of Class Based Views with custom pagination (which additionally passes all request GET parameters to view, it might be useful for custom filter)
• Data compression (with installed security debreach package)
• Localization
• Custom user authentication with user profile
• Multiple form support
• Model history and reversion (possibility to back to old versions of the model)
• Management commands for initial configuration
• Customized Django Suit based administration
• Pre configured specific folders of Django application (fixtures, media, static, etc.)
• Email subscription
• Contact and Application database
• Using thumbnail for images
• Slider
• Logging
• Switching between languages (data related and django localization)
• User password change, restore model

Pre configured 3rd party packages:

• REST Framework
• Import Export (Import and Export to and from most popular file formats such as xml, csv, etc.)
• CKEditor (also configured to support file upload)
• Django Select2 (Auto select for administration)
• Easy Thumbnails

Additional applications:

• Blog application
  • Widgets
  • Static pages
  • Posts
  • Post categories
  • Slider
  • Beep (simple twitter like model logic)
  • Blog API

To install Django Skeleton on your machine run following commands:

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/KenanBek/django-skeleton.git
cd django-skeleton

Create virtual environment and install requirements

virtualenv env
.\env\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Initialize and run the application

cd app
python manage.py init
python manage.py runserver

"python manage.py init" command will ask you to set password for administration user.

Visit http://localhost:8000 for website, http://localhost:8000/admin for administration.

Available version for demo: 1.5

Visit Website and Admin to try Django Skeleton on demand.

Superuser login and password:

Login: admin
Password: admin

Configure following things if you are going to use this skeleton on your projects:

• Change SECRET_KEY
• Configure django sites (enter correct name and address for the site)
• Configure application settings (settings.py)
• Configure robots.txt and sitemaps
• Configure social accounts' id and urls
• Configure buttons.js publisher id

• Organisation of User, Moderator and Administration parts
• Structure of blocks of Templates for User and Moderator

Licensed under GNU GPL v3.0