flask-blog

This is a work in progress. It is a very simple blog built with flask. The end goal is to have a blog that supports multiple authors and basic search and filter operations.

Setup

• Create a virtualenv
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a file in the top directory named config.py
  • You must set SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, SECRET_KEY, BLOG_NAME, ADMIN_EMAIL, any other settings are optional
• Activate and start your virtualenv and run the create_db_default_user located in blog/models
• Start the development server with python run.py
• Now you can log in with the username and password admin at localhost:5000/login/
• Visit localhost:5000/admin/
  • Create a new user for yourself
  • Switch users
  • Remove the default user
  • Now start creating posts, users, tags, and services

Notes

• Feel free to use this blog structure any way that you would like
• We have tried to keep things general when possible, but this isn't intended to be a base for any other blogs, so sometimes things are a bit hardcoded
• Always glad to hear any comments of pull requests, even if we're not striving for perfection

Attributions

• The blog as it stands relies upon Foundation for some great css gridding and js utilities
  • This means we're also relying upon jQuery
• By default we're using Open Sans