Pinax News

Table of Contents

• About Pinax
• Important Links
• Overview
  • Supported Django and Python Versions
• Documentation
  • Installation
  • Settings
  • Usage
• Change Log
• Contribute
• Code of Conduct
• Connect with Pinax
• License

About Pinax

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. It is an ecosystem of reusable Django apps, themes, and starter project templates. This collection can be found at http://pinaxproject.com.

Important Links

Where you can find what you need:

• Releases: published to PyPI or tagged in app repos in the Pinax GitHub organization
• Global documentation: Pinax documentation website
• App specific documentation: app repos in the Pinax GitHub organization
• Support information: SUPPORT.md file in the Pinax default community health file repo
• Contributing information: CONTRIBUTING.md file in the Pinax default community health file repo
• Current and historical release docs: Pinax Wiki

pinax-news

Overview

pinax-news is a simple app for publishing links to news articles on your site.

Supported Django and Python Versions

Django / Python	3.6	3.7	3.8
2.2	*	*	*
3.0	*	*	*

Documentation

Installation

To install pinax-news:

$ pip install pinax-news

Add pinax-news to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # other apps
    "imagekit",
    "pinax.news",
]

You will need either PIL or Pillow installed for imagekit to work. We recommend Pillow:

$ pip install Pillow

Settings

There are two settings that have defaults but if you want to override them you need to just set them to the dotted-notation path to the ImageSpec class that you wish to use to process the image and secondary_image files for the image_thumb and secondary_image_thumb attributes on the News model.

PINAX_NEWS_IMAGE_THUMBNAIL_SPEC = "pinax.news.specs.ImageThumbnail"
PINAX_NEWS_SECONDARY_IMAGE_THUMBNAIL_SPEC = "pinax.news.specs.SecondaryImageThumbnail"

To create your own ImageSpec classes you can reference the defaults, but it is basically subclassing imagekit.ImageSpec.

Usage

In your template where you want to display news or press releases:

First, load the template tags:

{% load pinax_news_tags %}

For news:

{% news as news_items %}

For press releases (new stories with the press_release boolean set to True):

{% press_releases as press_release_items %}

Here is an example news item list display:

{% for news_item in news_items %}
    <article class="news-article" style="{% if news_item.secondary_image_thumb %}background-image:url({% static news_item.secondary_image_thumb.url %});{% endif %}">
        <h3>
            <a href="{{ news_item.url }}">
                {% if news_item.image_thumb %}<img src="{{ news_item.image_thumb.url }}" width="168" />{% endif %}
                <span>{{ news_item.title }}</span>
            </a>
        </h3>
    </article>
{% endfor %}

Add and manage news and press releases via the Django admin.

Change Log

3.0.0

• Drop Django 1.11, 2.0, and 2.1, and Python 2,7, 3.4, and 3.5 support
• Add Django 2.2 and 3.0, and Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 support
• Update packaging configs
• Direct users to community resources

2.0.3

• Add django>=1.11 to requirements
• Update CI config
• Remove doc build support
• Add sorting guidance for 3rd-party app imports
• Improve documentation markup

2.0.2

• setup.py changes to support PyPi doc display

2.0.1

• Fix setup.py LONG_DESCRIPTION for PyPi

2.0.0

• Add Django 2.0 compatibility testing
• Drop Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and Python 3.3 support
• Move documentation into README
• Standardize documentation layout
• Convert CI and coverage to CircleCi and CodeCov
• Add PyPi-compatible long description

1.1.2

• fix packaging

1.1.1

• fix packaging

1.1.0

• added support for secondary images
• added support for customized image sizing

1.0.0

• added docs and tests and wired up CI

0.1

• initial release

Contribute

Contributing information can be found in the Pinax community health file repo.

Code of Conduct

In order to foster a kind, inclusive, and harassment-free community, the Pinax Project has a Code of Conduct. We ask you to treat everyone as a smart human programmer that shares an interest in Python, Django, and Pinax with you.

Connect with Pinax

For updates and news regarding the Pinax Project, please follow us on Twitter @pinaxproject and check out our Pinax Project blog.

License

Copyright (c) 2012-present James Tauber and contributors under the MIT license.