Text Blocks
Text Blocks is a fork of django-flatblocks https://github.com/zerok/django-flatblocks with frontend editing removed and tinymce supported added to the admin.
Installation
- Add text_blocks to your INSTALLED_APP settings
- Sync the DB by either running ./manage.py syncdb or ./manage.py migrate text_blocks
Usage
Once you've created some instances of the text_blocks.models.TextBlock
model, you can load it it using the text_block_tags templatetag-library:
{% load text_block_tags %}
<html>
<head>
<!-- ... -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="page">
<div id="main">
<!-- ... -->
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
{% textblock "page.info" %}
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This way you can display a text block with the name 'page.info'. If you have the name of a block in a template variable, leave out the quotes.
This tag also accepts an optional argument where you can specify the number of seconds, the that block should be cached:
{% textblock "page.info" 3600 %}
Additionally you can also specify which template should be used to render the textblock:
{% textblock "page.info" using="my_template.html" %}
# ...
{% textblock "page.about" 3600 using="my_template.html" %}
As with the slug of the textblock also with the template name you have the choice of using the literal name of the template or pass it to the templatetag as a variable.