mkvirtualenv marcus
pip install --process-dependency-links django-marcus  # use "--process-dependency-links" for pip>=1.5
django-admin.py startproject <project_name>

Configuration

Add to settings.py::

import os
import imp
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
PROJECT_NAME = os.path.basename(PROJECT_ROOT)
STORAGE_ROOT = os.path.join('/storage', PROJECT_NAME)
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(imp.find_module('marcus')[1], 'locale'),
)

ADMINS = (
    ('Admin', 'admin@example.com'),
)
// Please setup settings.MANAGERS for notify about new comments
MANAGERS = ADMINS

MARCUS_PAGINATE_BY = 20
MARCUS_ARTICLES_ON_INDEX = 10
MARCUS_COMMENTS_ON_INDEX = 10
MARCUS_COMMENT_EXCERPTS_ON_INDEX = 2
MARCUS_ITEMS_IN_FEED = 20
MARCUS_AUTHOR_ID = 1
MARCUS_TAG_MINIMUM_ARTICLES = 0

# Specify blog names:
MARCUS_TITLE = _('Blog')
MARCUS_SUBTITLE = _('Sample blog')

MARCUS_DESCRIPTION = _('')
MARCUS_KEYWORDS = _('')

# You can specify extras for markdown:
MARCUS_MARKDOWN_EXTRAS = ['code-friendly', 'wiki-tables']

# Specify a fields which will used in search:
MARCUS_SEARCH_FIELDS = [
    'slug', 'title_ru', 'title_en', 'text_ru', 'text_en',
    'categories__slug', 'categories__title_ru', 'categories__title_en',
]

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                'marcus.context_processors.marcus_context',
            ],
        },
    },
]

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(STORAGE_ROOT, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(STORAGE_ROOT, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.flatpages',
    'marcus'
)

Add to urls.py::

from django.urls import include, path
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
from django.contrib import admin

admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include(('marcus.urls', 'marcus')), namespace='marcus'),
]

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

And run so::

python ./manage.py runserver 8000

Wordpress importer settings:

Marcus includes "wordpress_importer" it is command that imports your entries from the Wordpress to the Marcus. It has a built-in pipelines for additional filtering data. ::

MARCUS_WORDPRESS_IMPORTER = {
    'ARTICLE_PIPELINES': (
        'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.CodecolorerToHighlightJsPipeline',
        'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.WpContentUploadsToMediaPipeline',
        'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.BbCodeDetector',
        'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.EscapeTheUnderscore',
        # 'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.ChangeUrlToArticleForImagePipeline',
        # 'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.RemoveImgClassPipeline',
        # 'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.HtmlToMarkdownPipeline',
    ),
    # 'CATEGORY_PIPELINES': tuple(),
    # 'TAG_PIPELINES': tuple(),
    'COMMENT_PIPELINES': (
        'marcus.wordpress_importer.pipelines.CodecolorerToHighlightJsPipeline',
    ),
    'ALLOW_DOMAINS': (  # Used to determine the internal domain to import only local "wp-content/uploads", etc.
        'my-old-blog-on-wordpress.org',
        'www.my-old-blog-on-wordpress.org',
    ),
}

Installation guide for new projects:

django-admin.py startproject project
cd project
pip install django-marcus
# Copy the settings to settings.py and you urls to you urls.py described above
python ./manage.py migrate
python ./manage.py createsuperuser
python ./manage.py runserver 8000

MySQL Timezone Fixes

If you use MySQL and have problem with open an article by URL, it is likely that you did not work CONVERT_TZ, it can be solved as follows::

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p mysql

License

BSD licensed.

Keywords

django

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