aldryn / aldryn-blog

aldryn-blog IS DEPRECATED. PLEASE USE aldryn-newsblog!

Aldryn Blog App

Please note that this application has been superseded by Aldryn News & Blog, and may not receive any future updates.

Simple blogging application. It allows you to:

• write a tagable post message
• plug in latest post messages (optionally filtered by tags)
• attach post message archive view

Installation

Aldryn Platform Users

Choose a site you want to install the add-on to from the dashboard. Then go to Apps -> Install app and click Install next to Blog app.

Redeploy the site.

Manual Installation

NOTE: If you are using a database other than PostgresSQL, check out the table below.

Database support:

SQLite3	MySQL	PostgresSQL
Not supported	Requires Time zone support	Fully supported

Run pip install aldryn-blog.

Add below apps to INSTALLED_APPS: :

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    …

    'aldryn_blog',
    'aldryn_common',
    'django_select2',
    'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
    'easy_thumbnails',
    'filer',
    'hvad',
    'taggit',
    'hvad',
    # for search
    'aldryn_search',
    'haystack',
    …
]

Posting

You can add post messages in the admin interface now. Search for the label Aldryn_Blog.

In order to display them, create a CMS page and install the app there (choose Blog from the Advanced Settings -> Application dropdown).

Now redeploy/restart the site again.

The above CMS site has become a blog post archive view.

About the Content of a Post

In Aldryn Blog, there are two content fields in each Post which may be confusing:

1. Lead-In and
2. Body

The Lead-In is text/html only and is intended to be a brief "teaser" or introduction into the blog post. The lead-in is shown in the blog list-views and is presented as the first paragraph (or so) of the blog post itself. It is not intended to be the whole blog post.

To add the body of the blog post, the CMS operator will:

1. Navigate to the blog post view (not the list view);
2. Click the "Live" button in the CMS toolbar to go into edit-mode;
3. Click the "Structure" button to enter the structure sub-mode;
4. Here the operator will see the placeholder "ALDRYN_BLOG_POST_CONTENT", use the menu on the far right of the placeholder to add whatever CMS plugin the operator wishes –– this will often be the Text plugin;
5. Double-click the new Text plugin (or whatever was selected) to add the desired content;
6. Save changes on the plugin's UI;
7. Press the "Publish" button in the CMS Toolbar.

Available CMS Plug-ins

• Latest Blog Entries plugin lets you list n most frequent blog entries filtered by tags.
• Blog Authors plugin lists blog authors and the number of posts they have authored.
• Tags plugin lists the tags applied to all posts and allows filtering by these tags.

Search

If you want the blog posts to be searchable, be sure to install aldryn-search and its dependencies. Your posts will be searchable using django-haystack.

You can turn it this behavior off by setting ALDRYN_BLOG_SEARCH = False in your django settings.

Additional Settings

• ALDRYN_BLOG_SHOW_ALL_LANGUAGES: By default, only the blog posts in the current language will be displayed. By setting the value of this option to True, you can change the behaviour to display all posts from all languages instead.
• ALDRYN_BLOG_USE_RAW_ID_FIELDS: Enable raw ID fields in admin (default = False)

aldryn-blog's Issues

Slug validation missing

When a slug is provided during the creation of a post, the validity of the slug is not verify. For example, if the slug contain space or commas I'm getting:

NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'post-detail' with arguments '()' and
keyword arguments '{'year': 2014, 'slug': u'dummy, foo, bar', 'day': 8,
'month': 5}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: [u'en/blog/(?P<year>\\d{4})/
(?P<month>\\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\\d{1,2})/(?P<slug>\\w[-\\w]*)/$']

In addition, if the slug is not provided and the title doesn't contain any valid character (Cyrillic/Chinese/Arab... title) the slug created is an empty string and the same bug occur.

I can try to provide a pull request, this weekend.

missing scripts in admin template

in templates/admin/post/change_form.html line 7:
...cms/js/plugins/cms.base.js
shouldn`t it be
...cms/js/modules/cms.base.js

The same with changeform.js...

toolbar "edit blog post" on the list view

should probably not be there

double controls

auto-create users on disqus

http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/236206-integrating-single-sign-on

LatestEntriesPlugin failure

So I have a cms page with a placeholder,

{% static_placeholder "newsitems" %}

here, I want to add the LatestEntriesPlugin.
But it doen't work. I have more than 3 blog post, but when I want to create this plugin with the latest 3, I get no blog posts at all.

I found out the issue was in LatestEntriesPlugin model. When I comment the __unicode__, all works perfectly:

class LatestEntriesPlugin(CMSPlugin):
    latest_entries = models.IntegerField(default=5, help_text=_('The number of latests entries to be displayed.'))
    tags = models.ManyToManyField('taggit.Tag', blank=True, help_text=_('Show only the blog posts tagged with chosen tags.'))

    # def __unicode__(self):
    #     return str(self.latest_entries)

    def copy_relations(self, oldinstance):
        self.tags = oldinstance.tags.all()

    def get_posts(self):
        posts = Post.published.filter_by_language(self.language)
        tags = list(self.tags.all())
        if tags:
            posts = posts.filter(tags__in=tags)
        return posts[:self.latest_entries]

One question is, why is this __unicode__ here? Regarding this model is not available in the admin site, it seems this code is overflowing...

Issues on authors

I get the following error when adding the authors plugin:

IntegrityError at /en/admin/stacks/stack/edit-plugin/9/
null value in column "author_id" violates not-null constraint
DETAIL:  Failing row contains (9, null, 5).

    """
    def __init__(self, cursor):
        self.cursor = cursor
    def execute(self, query, args=None):
        try:
            return self.cursor.execute(query, args) ...
        except Database.IntegrityError as e:
            six.reraise(utils.IntegrityError, utils.IntegrityError(*tuple(e.args)), sys.exc_info()[2])
        except Database.DatabaseError as e:
            six.reraise(utils.DatabaseError, utils.DatabaseError(*tuple(e.args)), sys.exc_info()[2])
    def executemany(self, query, args):

What a working version for django-cms 3.0.2?

4.0 don't work on cms 3.0.2
errors in reverse url

search index

add a haystack-2 compatible search index

Please repair model 'Post' :)

Hi, I'm use custom model in django cms and your plugin.
Please add this line in models:

...
from .utils import generate_slugs, get_blog_authors, get_slug_for_user

User = getattr(settings, 'AUTH_USER_MODEL', User)
...

This code repairs the problem of its own the user class. :)

auto create text plugin with lead in

create a text plugin with the lead in on first save

installation instructions for non-cloud users

add these to your INSTALLED_APPS

'taggit',
'django_select2',
'aldryn_blog',

monthly and yearly archives should be available

eg under /blog/archive/2013/ and /blog/archive/2013/04/

Bonus points for redirecting /2013/4/ to /2013/04/

Aldryn-blog installation error

Hi all,

i installed the latest version of django-cms and so the django-mptt 0.6.0.
When i try to install aldryn-blog the installation fails on the version of django-mptt cause it requires below 0.6.0
Do anyone know a solution for this?

Thanks and best regards
Manuel

OpenGraph/TwitterCard meta tags

the detail template should have opengraph and twittercard meta tags to make sharing posts more appealing.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/markup-reference
http://ogp.me/

Language field

While blog entries themselves shouldn't be translatable, it should be possible to set the language of a blog post so that only blog posts in the user's language are displayed.

• should use settings.LANGUAGES as choices
• nullable/blank (which means: display this entry in all languages)
• not displayed if len(settings.LANGUAGES) == 1
• Views only display entries with language in (get_language(), None)

NoReverseMatch at /de/admin/r/46/2/

Hello,

i has follow the instruction from readme to install the blog in Django CMS 3 (Django 1.6.) and when i run Archive or an article i become:

NoReverseMatch at /de/admin/r/46/2/
u'aldryn_blog' is not a registered namespace

The complete Error: http://pastebin.com/mLcDB4qH
Installed Apps: http://pastebin.com/EppRgGZ0
Console: http://pastebin.com/ZwW2UVtX

Im not a Programmer i see Django CMS in Youtube and found intresting, but i not know what mean this mistake message.

import error in migrations

aldryn_blog/migrations/0005_date_to_datetime_step2.py", line 7, in
from dateutil.tz import tzutc
ImportError: No module named dateutil.tz

should probably add python-dateutil to the requirements

tags autocomplete in admin

use django-select2?

select2 js files not found in admin

http://www.esb.ch/de/admin/aldryn_blog/post/24/

i get 404s in admin for the select2 files...

multiple author support

Some posts have a co-author, maybe even more than two.

For the first case I think an extra fk to AUTH_MODEL would do it, but I think a better solution would be to change this to a m2m field with a through model that allows the user to specific a primary author, so this through model would have three fields: author, is_primary.

The author is a fk to either it's own PostAuthor model with a fk to user OR PostAuthor model acting as proxy to user. The idea behind this is to be able to encapsulate some functionality in this model, so we can do author.get_absolute_url() instead of the get_slugs hack...

installing aldryn-blog in django-cms breaks djangocms_link plugin

This is very easy to reproduce. I discovered this by following the tutorial at:
"divio / django-cms-tutorial" where as an example at Step 6 of the tutorial, is used the installation of a blog app, the aldryn-blog app.
The link plugin works correctly until the completion of the steps described to install aldryn-blog. After that, any attempt to create a link using the plugin from the frontend editor, generates an error.

It would seem that the error actually is connected to django-select2 which is installed automatically when installing aldryn-blog.
I fixed this in my cms installation by modifying the project's "urls.py" file and adding the line:
url(r'^select2/', include('django_select2.urls')),
at the urlpatterns section.

Currently, my sections that deal with the urlpatterns is as follows:

=========== CUT ====================
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^sitemap.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': {'cmspages': CMSSitemap}}),
url(r'^select2/', include('django_select2.urls')),
)

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
)
============== CUT ==================

After this change, the link plugin works properly.

I don't know whether this is a documentation issue or something that has to be fixed in code.
But I hope it helps.

Regards.

"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'dismissAddAnotherPopup' of null" when adding a blog post

add an optional publication end date

optional datetime
after that time, the blog post should not be displayed anymore

bad_table_name, proper_table_name, model._meta.app_label

I was told this was a aldryn-blog problem rather than django-cms, so I am posting it here. (im a django beginner) After Installing django-cms by following the tutorial at https://github.com/divio/django-cms-tutorial and using the recommended "stable" releases and also installing aldryn-blog i get these depreciation errors.

/home/msables/.envs/teethinline/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py:570: DeprecationWarning: Class FrontendEditableAdmin is deprecated and will be removed in 3.1. Instead, use FrontendEditableAdminMixin.
"Instead, use FrontendEditableAdminMixin.", DeprecationWarning)

/home/msables/.envs/teethinline/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py:563: DeprecationWarning: Class PlaceholderAdmin is deprecated and will be removed in 3.1. Instead, combine PlaceholderAdminMixin with admin.ModelAdmin.
"Instead, combine PlaceholderAdminMixin with admin.ModelAdmin.", DeprecationWarning)

/home/msables/.envs/teethinline/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/filer/admin/clipboardadmin.py:5: DeprecationWarning: django.utils.simplejson is deprecated; use json instead.
from django.utils import simplejson

/home/msables/.envs/teethinline/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cms/plugin_pool.py:157: DeprecationWarning: please rename the table "cmsplugin_latestentriesplugin" to "aldryn_blog_latestentriesplugin" in aldryn_blog
The compatibility code will be removed in 3.1
bad_table_name, proper_table_name, model._meta.app_label), DeprecationWarning)

/home/msables/.envs/teethinline/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cms/plugin_pool.py:157: DeprecationWarning: please rename the table "cmsplugin_authorsplugin" to "aldryn_blog_authorsplugin" in aldryn_blog
The compatibility code will be removed in 3.1
bad_table_name, proper_table_name, model._meta.app_label), DeprecationWarning)

I am using the recommended postgresql database. How do i correct these warnings?

Error when saving text plugin on blog entry

Can't remove tags from blog posts

• Add a few tags to a blog post
• save
• remove some tags
• save
• removed tags re-appear

TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/aldryn_blog/category/add/

When I am using admin interface to Aldryn Blog's application I am receiving Django template-loader postmortem Error.

My Installed apps are

('djangocms_admin_style',
'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.sitemaps',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.messages',
'cms',
'mptt',
'menus',
'south',
'sekizai',
'djangocms_style',
'djangocms_column',
'djangocms_file',
'djangocms_flash',
'djangocms_googlemap',
'djangocms_inherit',
'djangocms_link',
'djangocms_picture',
'djangocms_teaser',
'djangocms_video',
'reversion',
'defesa_vida',
'aldryn_common',
'aldryn_blog',
'django_select2',
'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
'easy_thumbnails',
'filer',
'taggit')

Does anyone had one idea to this?
Thanks in advance

add plugin taggs

see news tag plugin as reference

Blog post detail placeholders cannot be filled

When I add text to an assigned blog post, nothing shows up

Add wysiwyg field for Lead-in text

"Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token )" when adding entry

/admin/aldryn_blog/post/add/

line 212: placeholder_element.data('id', );

migration dependency

the aldryn-blog migrations depend on taggit.
If taggit happens to be under aldryn_blog in installed apps, there is a migration error.

category support

currently we support tags for a post, but it would be very useful to categorize posts via a category field.

Admin view

Add taggit to the Aldryn_Blog section instead of separate entry so you would have:

• Posts
• Tags

Add authors count and hide authors with no posts

i'm using get_authors currently. I only want a list of authors

Cannot add content to blog article

Using Django 1.6.4, Django CMS 3.0.1 and aldryn-blog 0.3.9 with a sqlite db.

I followed the instructions and am able to add a blog article .... but I can only add the lead-in text. How and where do I add the article content?

Menu in cms-toolbar should only be visible when on the apphooked page

Allow tags to be rendered per news item (blog_item.html) on all views

ImportError: cannot import name FrontendEditableAdmin

I got an import error of FrontendEditableAdmin in admin.py at line12. Could any body help me to fix it?
Below is my settings,
Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/en/

Django Version: 1.5.5
Python Version: 2.7.3
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.admin',
'cms',
'mptt',
'menus',
'south',
'sekizai',
'easy_thumbnails',
'reversion',
'django_select2',
'hvad',
'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
'filer',
'taggit',
'aldryn_blog')
Installed Middleware:
('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.page.CurrentPageMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.user.CurrentUserMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.toolbar.ToolbarMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.language.LanguageCookieMiddleware')

Traceback:
File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response

1.                 response = middleware_method(request)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/locale.py" in process_request

2.     check_path = self.is_language_prefix_patterns_used()
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/locale.py" in is_language_prefix_patterns_used

3.     for url_pattern in get_resolver(None).url_patterns:
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py" in url_patterns

4.     patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py" in urlconf_module

5.         self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py" in import_module

6. **import**(name)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/asite/asite/urls.py" in
7. admin.autodiscover()
   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/init.py" in autodiscover

8.         import_module('%s.admin' % app)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py" in import_module

9. **import**(name)
   

   File "/home/youyix/djangoWorkspace/Dcms/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aldryn_blog/admin.py" in
10. from cms.admin.placeholderadmin import FrontendEditableAdmin

Exception Type: ImportError at /en/
Exception Value: cannot import name FrontendEditableAdmin

add plugin archive

see news archive plugin as reference

add plugin authors

see example as in: https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/

displaying:
Author
x articles

with list as selected author eg: "/blog/author/benjamin/"

Can not add Latest Blog Entries plugin, crashes on "save" and is created empty

I have tried this several times and in different installations.
How I replicate this everytime with the same results is like this:

1. Create a virtual environment and activate it.
2. Install 'djangocms-installer' via pip.
3. Run 'djangocms' to create a demo project. sqlite database, bootstrap and demo homepage selected.
4. Install aldryn-blog via pip. Add the relevant for it to INSTALLED_APPS and then perform "manage syncdb" and also "manage migrate".
5. Create a page which is then connected to the Blog App. Add 2-3 blog posts for testing.
6. Add a plugin "Latest blog Entries" somewhere in the pages at the 'content' section. When selecting "save", there is an error message: "Share this trace at a public site" but which disappears after one second and I am returned to 'structure' mode of the page. I can actually see the Latest Blog Entries plugin where I was to place it, but it is non functional and it shows the word . There are no messages at all generated at the console where I have launched "manage runserver".

I tried this also (but I don't know if this is related to the above):

1. Opened a django shell via "manage shell".
2. Issued: >>> from aldryn_blog.models import LatestEntriesPlugin
3. Issued: >>> LatestEntriesPlugin.objects.all()

I got the following error lines:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 71, in repr
data = list(self[:REPR_OUTPUT_SIZE + 1])
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 96, in iter
self._fetch_all()
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 854, in _fetch_all
self._result_cache = list(self.iterator())
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 220, in iterator
for row in compiler.results_iter():
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 709, in results_iter
for rows in self.execute_sql(MULTI):
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 782, in execute_sql
cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py", line 69, in execute
return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params)
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py", line 53, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 99, in exit
six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py", line 53, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/usr/local/marvian/lessons/zarfi/env_zarfi/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 450, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
OperationalError: no such table: aldryn_blog_latestentriesplugin

I hope this helps.
Regards.

Issues while installing

At first install there needs to be a blog entry, otherwise the following error occurs while adding the tags plugin:

IndexError at /en/applications/blog/
list index out of range

Additionally I get the following error after creating an entry:

NoReverseMatch at /en/applications/blog/
u'aldryn_blog' is not a registered namespace

publication_date should be a DateTimeField

To allow publications at a certain time of the day

minor fixes

• LatestBlogEntries Plugin should have a default value for "Latest entries". Say 5.
• LatestBlogEntries Plugin should not filter based on tags if none are selected (selecting no tag should display all)
• make blog templates editable in the online editor
• don't 404 if there are no blog entries (show an empty list instead)

Can't Install because of Django-Select 2

I can't install this app because Django-Select2 is not compatible with Python3 . I found a specific branch of Django-Select2 with Python 3 support. I installed it, but aldryn-blog still wants to install the non Python3 version.

(env2)jeremy@AtlasShrugged ~/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest $ pip install aldryn-blog
Downloading/unpacking aldryn-blog
  Downloading aldryn-blog-0.3.12.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/home/jeremy/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest/env2/build/aldryn-blog/setup.py) egg_info for package aldryn-blog

    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory '*'
Downloading/unpacking django-taggit<0.12 (from aldryn-blog)
  Downloading django_taggit-0.11.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Downloading/unpacking django-filer (from aldryn-blog)
  Downloading django-filer-0.9.5.tar.gz (739kB): 739kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/jeremy/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest/env2/build/django-filer/setup.py) egg_info for package django-filer

Downloading/unpacking django-select2 (from aldryn-blog)
  Downloading Django-Select2-4.2.2.tar.gz (91kB): 91kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/jeremy/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest/env2/build/django-select2/setup.py) egg_info for package django-select2
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/home/jeremy/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest/env2/build/django-select2/setup.py", line 154
        print data['error_code']
                 ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/home/jeremy/Dropbox/Programming/webdevelopment/newtest/env2/build/django-select2/setup.py", line 154

Also as a side note I tried this with just a Python2.7 Environment and it worked. However I used sqlite3 as the database which is supposedly not supported. It seemed to work just fine. Whats not supposed to work with sqlite3?

Thank you!

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error: You selected an apphook with an "app_name". You must enter a instance name.

Hi,

I wanted to try your app but I got an error while creating the blog page.

I installed django-cms following the readme here:
https://github.com/divio/django-cms-tutorial/blob/master/Step%201%20-%20Initial%20Setup.md

Then I installed your app following the readme of your app.
Everything went fine during the installation.

Now, after I try to add the blog page, that is following this "In order to display them, create a CMS page and install the app there (choose Blog from the Advanced Settings -> Application dropdown).", so that I select Blog for the application, I got the following error:

"You selected an apphook with an "app_name". You must enter a instance name."

This happened with django-cms 3.0rc1 with both django 1.5 and 1.6.

Fix empty urls

there are some urls that point to an error like:
blog/tag/
blog/2012/5/14/

which should either render all tags or the current posts of one day.

Blog content user perspective

Hi guys,

I'm working quite intensively with Django-CMS and I'm impressed with aldryn-blog. I have a suggestion and I hope you find it useful.

From the user point of view, isn't it better to add a post by doing this simple steps:
Blog -> Add blog post -> Insert Lead-in and also Blog content, fill the rest of the fields and you are done!
And then just edit, if you need, in the front-end.

The body could be a HTMLField in the Post model and then render_model in the details template, or put TextPlugin inside the content placeholder in order to be able to add more features, but the point is: you will be able to have your post ready in just three steps :)

Cheers