Make sure to install these packages prior to installation :
The packages below are optionnal but needed for run the full test suite.
Note that all the dependencies will be resolved if you install Zinnia with pip or easy_install, excepting Django.
For the latest stable version of Zinnia use easy_install:
$ easy_install django-blog-zinnia
or use pip:
$ pip install django-blog-zinnia
You could also retrieve the last sources from https://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia. Clone the repository using git and run the installation script:
$ git clone git://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia.git
$ cd django-blog-zinnia
$ python setup.py install
or more easily via pip:
$ pip install -e git://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia.git#egg=django-blog-zinnia
Then register zinnia, and these following applications in the INSTALLED_APPS section of your project’s settings.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.comments',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'tagging',
'mptt',
'zinnia',
)
Add these following template context processors if not already present.
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.core.context_processors.media',
'django.core.context_processors.static',
'zinnia.context_processors.version',) # Optional
Add at least these following lines to your project’s urls.py in order to display the Weblog.
url(r'^weblog/', include('zinnia.urls')),
url(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')),
Remember to enable the admin site in the urls.py of your project if you haven’t done it yet for having the edition capabilities.
Note that the default Zinnia URLset zinnia.urls is calibrated for convenient usage, but you can customize your Weblog URLs as you want. Here’s a custom implementation of the URLs provided by Zinnia:
url(r'^', include('zinnia.urls.capabilities')),
url(r'^search/', include('zinnia.urls.search')),
url(r'^sitemap/', include('zinnia.urls.sitemap')),
url(r'^trackback/', include('zinnia.urls.trackback')),
url(r'^blog/tags/', include('zinnia.urls.tags')),
url(r'^blog/feeds/', include('zinnia.urls.feeds')),
url(r'^blog/authors/', include('zinnia.urls.authors')),
url(r'^blog/categories/', include('zinnia.urls.categories')),
url(r'^blog/comments/', include('zinnia.urls.comments')),
url(r'^blog/', include('zinnia.urls.entries')),
url(r'^blog/', include('zinnia.urls.archives')),
url(r'^blog/', include('zinnia.urls.shortlink')),
url(r'^blog/', include('zinnia.urls.quick_entry')),
Since the version 1.3 of Django, Zinnia uses the staticfiles application to serve the static files needed. Please refer to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ for more informations about serving static files.
Now that you have everything set up, simply run the following in your project directory to sync the models with the database.
$ python manage.py syncdb
If you are using South to manage your database, you will have to do the following.
$ python manage.py syncdb --migrate