blog_it

A blogging platform made with Django.

Check it out here!

Features

• User Sign Up / Log in / Log out
• Editable account / profile information
• Assignable categories to blog posts, e.g., Science, Nature, etc
• Filterable blog posts on the basis of categories
• Users can comment on blog posts
• Users can follow each other, and have their own personalized "feed"

Run it yourself

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/genericSpecimen/blog_it.git

cd blog_it/

# create a vitual environment, install dependencies, run migrations, run the server
make start

At this point, the development server should start at http://127.0.0.1:8000/. But there is no data in the database. We also need to create a superuser.

source env/bin/activate

# create superuser
python manage.py createsuperuser

# run the server again
make run

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and log in with the superuser credentials. You can now either use the admin dashboard to create objects or simply use the user Sign Up / Log In features on the website.

Made with

• Django
• Bootstrap 4

To Do

• Create a To Do list.
• Create the skeleton project.
• Create models for BlogAuthor, BlogPost, BlogComment.
• Register the models and add test objects using the admin site.
• Customize the admin site.
• Create the home page.
• Create BlogPost and BlogAuthor list and detail views.
• Add user log in / log out functionality.
• Add the functionality of commenting on blog posts.
• Write basic tests
• Improve the user interface a bit
• Allow users to create their own accounts with profile information.
• Allow users to create their own blog posts
• Add a blog post category feature.
• Add a blogger subscribe feature.