1. Project Overview

   • Project Name: Blog Web App.
   • Description: The Django Blog Project is a simple yet powerful blogging platform built using the Django web framework. It provides essential blogging features such as creating, editing, and deleting posts, as well as user authentication and commenting..
   • Purpose: Its main purpose is to perform basic crud operations of a blog.
   • Link to Demo: My github link ( https://github.com/thinkingtek/django-blog.git )

2. Installation

   • Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/thinkingtek/django-blog.git

   • Change directory: cd yourproject

   • Create a virtual environment python -m venv env

   • Activate the virtual environment .\env\Scripts\activate (for windows) source env/bin/activate (for Mac)

   • Install dependencies: pip install -r reqs.txt

   • Set up the database: python manage.py migrate

3. Usage

   • Run "python manage.py runserver" to run the project

4. Instructions

   • After running migrations, then add post categories through the Django admin (morals, relations,politics,economics,tech, etc) before adding posts.

5. Features

   • It as a responsive design, for both mobile and destop screens.
   • User creation, authentication, password reset and more.
   • Contact form page for users to communicate or send emails to the company
   • small letter case is enforced for email with JS in the signup form
   • Registered users can perform crud operations, like and comment on posts and add to favourite
   • Superuser can set posts as editors pick in the Django admin
   • Feature to like social media handle
   • Unit testing can be added later

6. Testing

   • "python manage.py test"

7. Created Accounts NOTE: Emails from the .env file are not fuctional

   -------- ACCOUNTS ----------- username: testuser email: [email protected] password: mypass123

   username: superuser (django admin access) email: [email protected] password: mypass123

   testuserpass (password for all ordinary user accounts)