Hi Simon,

I'll try to help you out with that.

Have you considered using Django models to allow end users to create, edit and customize templates within the Django admin?

This should be pretty easy to do.

All you need is to define some models for your customized templates and then the user can configure the styling within the Django admin.

HTH,

Etienne


Le 2018-03-18 à 18:21, 'Simon Connah' via Django users a écrit :
Hi,

First of all apologies for posting two messages to this list in a couple of days but I've just got back into Django after a rather long break, and it is taking me a little time to get back in the swing of things.

I'm in the process of making a simple blogging platform which I intend to release as an open source project. It is not designed to be a reusable app used by other Django. Instead, it is intended to be an all in one blogging solution for end users to install and use much like they do with something like Wordpress.

There is one major problem though that I don't know the answer. As I am building the blogging platform, I am of course writing my templates to make sure that everything is working correctly. But a side issue with that is that the templates now contain phrases related to the website I intend to create when the blogging platform is at a reasonable stage of development.

Now, when I open up the Git repository to the public, and people start using they are going to get the templates that I have already created. That will mean that they'll either need to go through them all individually (I doubt they will have heard of grep or similar tools) or just delete them all and start from scratch.

What I would like to see is people release their styles that can then be customised based on my model, form, view architecture and then they can do what they want with the templates. As long as I document the variables used in the templates that shouldn't cause too many problems.

In effect then I have two options. Distribute the code with my already existing templates or have a private repository with my templates and a public repository with no templates and documentation on how to create the templates and either make some styles myself or hope that someone else does.

Ideally, I'd like it to work a little bit like Wordpress where you can install a style very easily I'm just not sure how to go about doing that.

How would you go about this problem? I am both trying to make a blogging platform for my use while at the same time keeping it reasonably open so other people can use it as well. I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I'd appreciate some advice before I get too far into the project so any changes that need to be made will be smaller.

Thank you.

Simon.
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