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Django-CMS plugins for django-blog-zinnia

Project description

Cmsplugin-zinnia is a bridge between django-blog-zinnia and django-cms.

This package provides plugins, menus and apphook to integrate your Zinnia powered Weblog into your django-cms Web site.

The code bundled in this application is a copy of the original zinnia.plugins module, made for forward compatibility with django-blog-zinnia > 0.11.

Installation

Once Zinnia and the CMS are installed, you simply have to register cmsplugin_zinnia, in the INSTALLED_APPS section of your project’s settings.

Entries with plugins

If you want to use the plugin system of django-cms in your entries, an extended Entry with a PlaceholderField is provided in this package.

Just add this line in your project’s settings to use it.

ZINNIA_ENTRY_BASE_MODEL = 'cmsplugin_zinnia.placeholder.EntryPlaceholder'

Settings

CMSPLUGIN_ZINNIA_APP_MENUS

Default value:

('cmsplugin_zinnia.menu.EntryMenu',
 'cmsplugin_zinnia.menu.CategoryMenu',
 'cmsplugin_zinnia.menu.TagMenu',
 'cmsplugin_zinnia.menu.AuthorMenu')

List of strings representing the path to the Menu class provided by the Zinnia AppHook.

CMSPLUGIN_ZINNIA_HIDE_ENTRY_MENU

Default value: True

Boolean used for displaying or not the entries in the EntryMenu object.

CMSPLUGIN_ZINNIA_TEMPLATES

Default value: () (Empty tuple)

List of tuple for extending the plugins rendering templates.

Changelog

0.4

  • Fix issues with Entry.content rendering.

  • Compatibility with latest version of Zinnia.

0.3

  • Calendar plugin.

  • QueryEntries plugin.

  • Slider template for plugins.

  • Documentation improvements.

  • Fix breadcrumbs with month abbrev.

  • Compatibility with Django 1.4 and Django-CMS 2.3.

0.2

  • Better demo.

  • Renaming modules.

  • Fix dependancies with mptt.

  • Fix EntryPlaceholder’s Meta.

  • 0 means all the entries on plugins.

  • Set menu Nodes to invisible instead of removing.

0.1

  • Initial release based on zinnia.plugins.

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