On 9 January 2012 15:58, Edmund von der Burg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We're currently creating a site for Kenya that will provide
> information on politicians and candidates. This is an evolution of an
> existing blog whose content we want to keep central to the site.
>
> The existing blog is WordPress, and the new site is Django.
>
> We are trying to work out how best to proceed. We could keep the blog
> as a WP installation and get all the lovely blog-specific goodies that
> provides. Or we could use a blogging app for Django and move the
> existing content into that.
>
> The two key features we want for the users of the site are that the
> design and user accounts should be consistent across both the blog and
> the rest of the site.
>
> By user accounts we mean that the user should only have to create an
> account once, should only need to log in once and then have access to
> both parts of the sites without having to log in again. And the user
> should be able to login using Facebook and Twitter, as well as the
> normal email and password.
>
> Does anyone have any experiences doing this sort of integration?
>

A quick google around brings up this:

https://github.com/mrmicjam/wp_django_auth

It's an auth backend for django - not pretty looking at the code but
workable. It's a decision based on how integrated you want your blog
to be with a wider site, if you're only allowing general public to
comment on the blog posts then using something like disqus would be
useful.

HTH
Dan


> Cheers,
>  Edmund.
>
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