Django Multiblogs¶

Multiblogs is, like it’s namesake the multiball mode of many a classic pinball game, a way to inundate your site with blogs. It was built in an academic environment, where the need was for a classfull of students to each have their own blog.

What are we to do? The vast majority of django blog apps are rife with advertisments about “multiple authors support.” Well, multiple authors are one thing, but straight up multiple blogs, with unique urls, feeds, and all that jazz? Nope.

So here we have multiblog, an app that allows groups of blogs (like “students” or “faculty”), as well as multiple blogs:

http://mysite.com/blogs/students/joe-academic/

Of course, you can turn off the groups and just have a cornucopia of blogs too:

http://mysite.com/blogs/joe-academic/

This is still very much a work-in-progress, so read the docs, kick the tires, and let me know what doesn’t work.

Development¶

The source repository can be found at https://github.com/powellc/django-multiblogs

Contents¶

Installation¶

To install
```
pip install django-multiblogs
```

Add 'multiblogs' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # other apps
    "multiblogs",
)

Templates¶

Multiblogs uses the following templates, all located in a ‘multiblogs’ directory in your TEMPLATE_DIR:

``` blog_set_list.html (/)

blog_set_detail.html (/<blog-set-slug>/)

blog_detail.html (/<blog-set-slug>/<blog-slug>/)

post_year_archive.html (/<blog-set-slug>/<blog-slug>/<YYYY?year>/)

post_detail.html (/<blog-set-slug>/<blog-slug>/<YYYY?year>/<slug>/) ```

Filters¶

Template Tags¶

Signals¶

Usage¶

After installing multiblogs, there’s only a few things to worry about.

If you do not want the infinite power of blog sets to go along with your multiple blogs, set:

`MULTIBLOGS_WITHOUT_SETS= TRUE`

In your settings.py file.

Also, in your urls add:

``` urlpatterns += patterns(‘’,

... (r’^blogs/’, include(‘multiblogs.urls’)), ...