News Development Notes
Models
Category: name + slug with default alphabetical ordering.Post: title, optional category, CKEditor content, FK to members.Member as author, timestamps (created_time, published_time, modified_time), boolean published, and slug (max 50 chars). Methods publish(), unpublish(), update() manage timestamps.
PostCreationForm and PostEditForm both attach request.user to set the author (creation) or just update metadata (edit). Creation form slugifies with slugify_max and timestamps published_time at save.
Admin
PostAdmin swaps between the two forms in add_view vs change_view. Columns show author, category, created/modified times, and publish status. Categories get their own simple ModelAdmin.
Views
index: paginates 10 latest un-categorized, published posts (reverse order).article: fetches a published, un-categorized post by slug.author: lists all published posts tied to a specific username.category_index & category_article: same as above but filter by Category.slug.
Feed/SEO
- There’s also
news/feed.py (not covered here) generating RSS/Atom feeds; ensure Post timestamps stay accurate for feed readers.
Extending
- Add
summary or hero_image fields if marketing wants richer cards on the homepage.
- Introduce scheduled publishing by adding
publish_at and a management command or background job to flip published when the time arrives.
- Consider
prepopulated_fields = {"slug": ("title",)} in admin to reduce manual slug errors.