I have been migrating my existing blog to Mezzanine. It has been a great experience so far. Mezzanine has been able to accommodate all of the features on my "wish list" so far with the exception of the few "hiccups" below. Fortunately, I am positive that these outstanding problems can be overcome, it's just a matter of me learning more about Mezzanine and Django. I'd appreciate your help!
1) I want to have a "create new post" button that links to a "form" for creating a blog post. The form will ask the user for a blog post title, content, and an optional featured image. The featured image will prompt an upload that must work on smartphones. So far I am able to get all of this to work except for the image upload part. I've tried a few different ways of setting it up - in some cases the upload image button doesn't do anything, in other cases it launches a new window with the admin content management gui, and with some tweaking i can get the upload button to work but the site bombs when the "request.FILES" object is passed. The admin content management gui isn't really ideal for my blog, i'd prefer for it to go directly to an upload prompt. 2) I added two new columns to my blog_blogPost table in the database, but - unsurprisingly - these columns are not accessible when I refer to them in the blog detail or blog list pages. I suspect they need to be added to the model, not sure how to do that. I am thinking I need to ditch the standard "blog" app and instead make my own blog app that somehow extends the default blog app. I am not 100% sure about how to do this, but its on my short list of possible options for resolving the issues above. I am fairly strong with python and web design, but I'm still learning django. If you steer me in the right direction, I think I can figure it out. Thanks for the help! Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
