ubservas / KickIt

wagtail blog

KickIt!

music blog

Built With

• Wagtail - the powerfull CMS for modern websites
  • Wagtail Docs

Installation

• pull
• use venv with python 3.6

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py migrate

• creates a SQLite database file in the project directory (default)

$ python manage.py createsuperuser
$ python manage.py runserver

Deploy with Docker

• add nginx/media.conf to /home/dokku/.volumes/{app name}/nginx.conf.d/

Setup

• set site name in Wagtail Admin -> Settings -> Site
• add social media accounts: Settings -> SiteSettings
• set mailchimp newsletter Subscribe Form: KickIt/templates/includes/footer.html
• create Collections for media and manage permissions of User Groups

TODO

Dev

• Add Podcasts Tags (same as post tags?)
• check browser/mobile compatibility
• SEO
• improve readability with HTML5 tags
• minify css django asset-managers
• add help text to model properties

Design

• Author / Author Index Pages

Resources

General

• Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

• ngrok - tunnels to locahost. for test purposes

• you might not need jquery

• Responsive Design

  • by google

• Social Sharing

  • twitter cards / twitter button guides
  • Facebook Share Dialog / facebook share button
  • Facebook Include JS SDK
  • tumblr buttons

• MailChimp API

• LightGallery Post Image Gallery - Codepen Demo

Django / Wagtail

• wagtailmenus
• wagtail metadata
• Pagination
  • django-el-pagination
  • reddit help
• django-newsletter
• wagtail site settings
• wagtail embed
• Manage Cookies django-cookie-consent