Django-quickblocks

Overview

Django Quickblocks is a plugable Django based web application. Quickblocks has been developed to be more generic on how contents are being integrated within web applications.

Quickblocks key factor is how easy it is to categorize contents depending on where and how you want to display them by giving the users the power to use their creativity. Designing django-quickblocks we have focused on how contents are being displayed from thousand sites and from there we managed to make it more generic.

Quickblocks makes content management for average general sites a blast.

Features

• Create quickblock types
• Create different quicblock from quickblock type
• Use fields of your choice (quickblocks type maybe used most of the time.)
• Template tags that integrates quickblocks in the template on the fly
• more…

Download

From Github

You can always get the latest version of django-quickblocks from github. Using git you can clone the django-quickblocks or download either zipped version within your favorite browser and put it into your project folder.

My prefered way is to have requirements into a simple text file in the root of your project. We like to call it pip-requires.txt=(your choice). Put =-e git+http://github.com/nyaruka/django-quickblocks.git#egg=django_quickblocks on its own line and install everything in the file as following:

pip install -r pip-requires.txt

Configuration

To enable django-quickblocks for your project edit the projects settings.py and add the following:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    Other apps ...
    'django_reversion',
    'django_quickblocks'
)

Then syncronize your database to include these apps

% python manage.py syncdb

Getting Started

Once you have quickblock types and quickblocks it is time to display them in the template. There is where template tags comes into play.

This app offers one templatetag load_quickblocks. Which does a query for all active Quickblock objects for the passed QuickblockType identified by its slug. You can then access that list within your context.

It accepts one parameter the slug

Syntax

{% load_quickblocks [name]  %}

Example usage:

{% load_quickblocks  %}
...
{% load_quickblocks "home_banner_blocks" %}
...

Note:

You may also use the shortcut tag load-qbs as {% load_qbs "home_banner_blocks" %}

If you specify a slug that hos noi associated quicl block, then an error message will be inserted in your template. You man change this text by setting the value fothe QUICKBLOCK_IF_INVALID in your settings