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[mezzanine-users] place with all the template tags?

2015-07-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I am wondering if there is a doc on the Mezzanine or django website that 
has a list of all the template tags that I can use in my templates and 
how to include them in the template? I would like to know from the 
Mezzanine side, how to get the latest blog posts of a certain tag and of 
a date in the future.

Thank you,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] question about PAGES_MENU_SHOW_ALL

2015-07-17 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs

Hello,
How do I override tree.html? Here is what base.html says:
div class=panel panel-default tree{% page_menu
pages/menus/tree.html %}/div

I tried doing:
my_theme/templates/pages/menus/tree.html
but it doesn't seem to work. In tree.html it says:

{# wrap the next line with 'if page.is_current_or_ascendant' #}
{# to only show child pages in the menu for the current page #}
{% if page.is_current_or_ascendant %}{% if
page.has_children_in_menu %}{% page_menu page %}{% endif %}{% endif %}

so I did and I don't see anything different.
thank you,

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On 7/17/2015 5:55 AM, Stephen McDonald wrote:

It's deprecated for quite a while and apparently left there mistakenly.

You can see when it was removed which will show you how to reproduce
what it did:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/commit/2cc4fe261350b7ff5736ff07f31923e97345a5fa#diff-30f9afdcd3dfff4737de4015c43a6f09

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs
brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,
I want to make it so that the pages in the left-hand tree only
show children and siblings of the top parent. so if I have:
about
about/blog
about/our story
contact us
contact us/partnership
contact us/legal

when I click on about it only shows the our story and blog.

I was looking through the config settings and see the configuration:
PAGES_MENU_SHOW_ALL
and it says:
If True, the left-hand tree template for the pages menu will show
all levels of navigation, otherwise child pages are only shown
when viewing the parent page.
Default: True

I set it to false, but don't see any change. I restarted the
server and everything. Here is what my defaults.py looks like:
my_theme/defaults.py
from mezzanine.conf import register_setting

register_setting('PAGES_MENU_SHOW_ALL', default=False)

What am I doing wrong? Because PAGES_MENU_SHOW_ALL=False seems to
be exactly what I want!
thanks,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-16 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
No, I needed to restart my server for some reason...
I got it to not give an error, but now it is still hiding my variable in the
{% block main %}

{% endblock %}

tags. Here is what I have:

my_app/templatetags/my_tags.py
from mezzanine import template
register = template.Library()

@register.assignment_tag
def test_text(format_string=I like cheese):
return format_string

my_theme/templates/index.html
{% extends base.html %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load my_tags %}
{% test_text Flowers are nice as my_text %}
{% block meta_title %}{% trans Home %}{% endblock %}
{% block title %}{% trans Home %}{% endblock %}

{% block breadcrumb_menu %}
li class=active{% trans Home %}/li
{% endblock %}

{% block main %}
{# {% blocktrans %} #}
h2My text!/h2
pHere is my text and the variable is: {{ my_text }}/p

pHere is my lovely text. Here are the important links:/p

h2Links/h2
ul
lia href=/admin/Log in to the admin interface/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/content-architecture.html;Creating 
custom page types/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#templates;Modifying 
HTML templates/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#why-isn-t-the-homepage-a-page-object-i-can-edit-via-the-admin;Changing 
this homepage/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html;Other 
frequently asked questions/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/configuration.html#default-settings;Full 
list of settings/a/li
lia 
href=http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/deployment.html;Deploying to a 
production server/a/li

/ul
{# {% endblocktrans %} #}
{% endblock %}


The variable does not show up at all.
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/16/2015 6:06 AM, Stephen McDonald wrote:

You're probably missing an empty __init__.py file:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-template-tags/#code-layout

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com wrote:


Hello,
I can't get this method to work. Here is what I have:
my_app/script_module.py
from mezzanine import template
register = template.Library()

@register.as_tag
def test_text():
return Hello world


my_theme/templates/index.html
{% extends base.html %}
{% load i18n %}
{% test_text %}

I get the error:
TemplateSyntaxError at /
Invalid block tag: 'test_text'

I then try adding in index.html:

{% extends base.html %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load my_app %}
{% test_text %}

But then get:
TemplateSyntaxError at /
'my_app' is not a valid tag library:

So then when I put
script_module.py
into
my_app/templatetags/my_script.py
I still get the same error.
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/16/2015 1:18 AM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:

That should work without issue, though I generally like to bundle
all the as tags on top of the block.

{% block main %}
{% get_sitewide_content as sitewide %}
h1my text/h1
{{ sitewide.foobar }}
{% endblock %}

Also, be careful with the blocktrans tag, you need to explicitly
bind any variable you want to use inside them. You should also
avoid including HTML tags inside them to prevent poluting the
gettext catalog with markup

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/translation/#blocktrans-template-tag.



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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-16 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
So the document namespace doesn't go into the block? That worked!
thank you,

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On 7/16/2015 10:41 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
Yeah, a server restart is required when you create new template tags 
for Django to pick them up.


As for your template code, try putting {% test_text Flowers are nice 
as my_text %} inside the block you want to use the variable (in your 
case: {% block main %}).




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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-15 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I can't get this method to work. Here is what I have:
my_app/script_module.py
from mezzanine import template
register = template.Library()

@register.as_tag
def test_text():
return Hello world


my_theme/templates/index.html
{% extends base.html %}
{% load i18n %}
{% test_text %}

I get the error:
TemplateSyntaxError at /
Invalid block tag: 'test_text'

I then try adding in index.html:

{% extends base.html %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load my_app %}
{% test_text %}

But then get:
TemplateSyntaxError at /
'my_app' is not a valid tag library:

So then when I put
script_module.py
into
my_app/templatetags/my_script.py
I still get the same error.
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/16/2015 1:18 AM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
That should work without issue, though I generally like to bundle all 
the as tags on top of the block.


{% block main %}
{% get_sitewide_content as sitewide %}
h1my text/h1
{{ sitewide.foobar }}
{% endblock %}

Also, be careful with the blocktrans tag, you need to explicitly bind 
any variable you want to use inside them. You should also avoid 
including HTML tags inside them to prevent poluting the gettext 
catalog with markup 
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/translation/#blocktrans-template-tag.




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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-15 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
How do you call the function in a block? Because for my index I have:
{% block main %}
{% blocktrans %}
h1my text/h1
{% where I want the function %}
{{ where I want the variable }}
{% endblocktrans %}
{% endblock %}

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/16/2015 12:23 AM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
As an alternative, you can also use SingletonAdmin and a template tag 
to make model data available anywhere in the site. Josh wrote about it 
and I follow this pattern all the time: 
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/on-singletonadmins-and-sitewidecontent-editing-sitewide-content-in-mezzanines-admin/.




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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-15 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I think I did this exactly how you said, but in my index.html nothing 
shows up. Here is what I have:

my_app/defaults.py

from mezzanine.conf import register_setting

register_setting(name='test_text', default=Hello world)
register_setting(name=TEMPLATE_ACCESSIBLE_SETTINGS, append=True, 
default=(test_text,))



my_theme/templates/index.html

{% extends base.html %}
... all defaults
{% block main %}
{% blocktrans %}
h2My text!/h2
pHere is my text and the variable is: {{ settings.test_text }}/p
{% endblocktrans %}
{% endblock %}


I get the first part of the text, but the variable is not there at all.
thanks,

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On 7/16/2015 12:12 AM, Danny wrote:

On 16/07/2015 7:30 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello,
Is there an easy way to create template variables and functions 
without modifying the site urls?

Perhaps in mezzanine_tags or something?
A variable like
{{ mezzanine.my_app.my_variable }}
would be fine.
Is this what page can help with? I want to use these variables in my 
custom theme.

thank you,


I think what you might be looking for is to create your own setting, 
and then use it in a template, right?


http://mezzanine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration.html

Basically:
In your app, create a defaults.py, and use register_setting() to 
create the variable you want.
It can be editable in the admin if you like, or just configurable via 
settings/local_settings.py


Then you'll need to update TEMPLATE_ACCESSIBLE_SETTINGS so that your 
new setting is listed there,

making it accessible within templates.

And then you should be able to just reference {{settings.variable}} in 
any template that has mezzanine_tags loaded.


For example, I have in my app's defaults.py:

register_setting(
name=SOCIAL_FACEBOOK,
description=Link to Facebook Page. Include http prefix.,
editable=True,
default=,
)
register_setting(
name=TEMPLATE_ACCESSIBLE_SETTINGS,
append=True,
default=(SOCIAL_FACEBOOK,),
)

And then in my base.html:

{% load mezzanine_tags ... %}
...
{% if settings.SOCIAL_FACEBOOK %}
a href={{ settings.SOCIAL_FACEBOOK }}Facebook/a
{% endif %}

So this allows me to add a link to my Facebook page in the admin 
(Settings section) and have that link show up on every page of the 
site via the base.html template.


Seeya. Danny.


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Re: [mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-15 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
That was totally the problem!

I would like to be able to keep the translation ability for the 
variables, is there any way to use a filter on the text before it goes 
into blocktrans?

I tried doing something like:

my_app/templatetags/module.py
from django import template
register = template.Library()

my_theme/templates/index.html
{% load shortcodes %}
...
{% block main|test_filter %}
{% blocktrans %}
h2My text!/h2
pI like flowers, apples, flowers, oranges, flowers and flowers!/p
{% endblocktrans %}
{% endblock %}

and nothing shows up on the page...
I've already got a filter I am using for richtext, so I'll just transfer 
that over if I can.


Other question, if I'm not to use html tags in the translated area, what 
do I use? Do I just put a whole lot of blocktrans tags in my html tags?

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/16/2015 1:18 AM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
That should work without issue, though I generally like to bundle all 
the as tags on top of the block.


{% block main %}
{% get_sitewide_content as sitewide %}
h1my text/h1
{{ sitewide.foobar }}
{% endblock %}

Also, be careful with the blocktrans tag, you need to explicitly bind 
any variable you want to use inside them. You should also avoid 
including HTML tags inside them to prevent poluting the gettext 
catalog with markup 
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/translation/#blocktrans-template-tag.




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[mezzanine-users] Easy way to grab data from an installed app in the templates

2015-07-15 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Is there an easy way to create template variables and functions without 
modifying the site urls?

Perhaps in mezzanine_tags or something?
A variable like
{{ mezzanine.my_app.my_variable }}
would be fine.
Is this what page can help with? I want to use these variables in my 
custom theme.

thank you,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] Text processing code?

2015-07-12 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I found the problem! The append argument is a bool and not a tuple or 
list. The correct function should be:
register_setting(name=RICHTEXT_FILTERS, append=True, 
default=('shortcodes.shortcodes.shortcodes_main',))


I think the documentation should state that append is a boolian and that 
one needs to pass in a tuple to the default function. The text could 
read as follows:
• append: If registering an existing setting and append is set to True, 
the value given to default will be appended to the current default value.


 Then for RICHTEXT_FILTER:
RICHTEXT_FILTER
Deprecated, use RICHTEXT_FILTERS
Dotted path to the function to call on a RichTextField value before it 
is rendered to the template.

Default: None
Thanks,

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On 7/12/2015 8:53 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:


RICHTEXT_FILTER is deprecated and kept around only for backwards 
compatibility as far as I know. runserver shows a deprecation warning 
every time it finds it.


You are right that default setting values should be lists and not 
tuples. Could you please test it and submit a patch?


In the meantime, you can simply rewrite the setting to your liking 
directly in your settings module, no need to do it in defaults.py if 
you find it inappropriate for your purposes.


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Re: [mezzanine-users] Text processing code?

2015-07-12 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Where exactly do I place that to substitute all text that is rendered to 
the page? I tried placing

{{ page.richtextpage.content|shortcodes_main|richtext_filters|safe }}
(where shortcodes_main is the name of the function in my app) on the top 
of base.html, but that just shows the correct text on the top of the 
document. down in the main block the wrong text is shown.

I believe the main text comes from the line that says:
{% block main %}{% endblock %}

but adding the above text does nothing:
{% block main %}{{ 
page.richtextpage.content|shortcodes_main|richtext_filters|safe }}{% 
endblock %}

I replaced the tags above so we had something like:
div id=page_content class=col-md-7 middle

{{page.richtextpage.content|shortcodes_main|richtext_filters|safe }}

/div

Is this OK, it looks perfect to my screen-reader, but I don't know if it 
looks OK to other people.

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/1/2015 6:07 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
Mezzanine provides the RICHTEXT_FILTERS setting for you to plug in any 
function to process text. You could implement a micro template 
language and call it from there. This is done in templates like so {{ 
page.richtextpage.content|richtext_filters|safe }}. Docs: 
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/configuration.html#richtext-filters.


I prefer this approach rather than enabling full support of the Django 
template language in RichText fields to keep things safe.




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Re: [mezzanine-users] Text processing code?

2015-07-12 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I got this to work using the loading into a template file, but I think 
it is a little too complex.

What is the
RICHTEXT_FILTERS

setting from:
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/configuration.html#richtext-filters
I ran:
register_setting(name=RICHTEXT_FILTERS, 
append='shortcodes.templatetags.shortcodes.shortcodes_main')

But got the following error:

  File 
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\mezzanine-3.1.10-py2.7.egg\mezzanine\conf\

__init__.py, line 44, in register_setting
registry[name][default] += default
TypeError: can only concatenate tuple (not NoneType) to tuple

I also did:

register_setting(name=RICHTEXT_FILTERS, 
default=['mezzanine.utils.html.thumbnails', 
'shortcodes.templatetags.shortcodes.shortcodes_main'])


and that seemed to do the trick, but that is not very friendly to any 
other applications that may be installed along with mezzanine that 
filter text.
I don't know how to grab the current list of settings to resubmit the 
list of current filters.

It appears that the default for RICHTEXT_FILTERS is:
('mezzanine.utils.html.thumbnails',)
so that may be why I can't append anything to it. This seems to be a 
bug, any of these iterative settings should be lists so the user can do 
append on them.


I also see there is a setting:
RICHTEXT_FILTER
and the default is None. Why is this different than RICHTEXT_FILTERS? 
Does it automatically reset the tuple with the new filter added? If so, 
could it say so in the documentation?


From what it looks like, RICHTEXT_FILTERS and RICHTEXT_FILTER are 
redundant and RICHTEXT_FILTER should be removed.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/1/2015 6:07 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
Mezzanine provides the RICHTEXT_FILTERS setting for you to plug in any 
function to process text. You could implement a micro template 
language and call it from there. This is done in templates like so {{ 
page.richtextpage.content|richtext_filters|safe }}. Docs: 
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/configuration.html#richtext-filters.


I prefer this approach rather than enabling full support of the Django 
template language in RichText fields to keep things safe.




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Re: [mezzanine-users] creating projects with latest build

2015-07-10 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs

Hello,
If I'm not mistaken older versions ask you if you would like to create
the super user. I've always used

python manage.py createdb
and been able to set my username and password.
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/10/2015 7:24 AM, Stephen McDonald wrote:
I can confirm the usual admin/default superuser is created, but
you're not prompted for it without --noinput, which is what I expected
also.

I also checked older versions of Mezzanine and it appears that's
always been the case.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Danny molo...@gmail.com
mailto:molo...@gmail.com wrote:

If you look in

https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/core/management/commands/createdb.py
You'll see it should create the default admin user as 'admin' with
password 'default'.

Try to log in to the admin side with that.

Although, I would have thought that unless you specified --noinput
it would have prompted you for this sort of information... maybe
that's changed.

Seeya. Danny.

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wrote:

Hello,
I just created a project with the latest build and I did not
get asked to create a super-user. There are also no setting
files in my project. I did:
mezzanine-project project1
cd project1
python manage.py createdb
python manage.py runserver

and my site went up perfectly, but no super-user was set.
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[mezzanine-users] creating projects with latest build

2015-07-09 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I just created a project with the latest build and I did not get asked 
to create a super-user. There are also no setting files in my project. I 
did:

mezzanine-project project1
cd project1
python manage.py createdb
python manage.py runserver

and my site went up perfectly, but no super-user was set.
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Re: [mezzanine-users] Text processing code?

2015-07-01 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello Ken,
This doesn't look like what I want.
I am talking about inside MCE editor.
Where is the code that takes the text inside an edit field and does 
stuff with it?

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 7/1/2015 3:00 PM, Ken Bolton wrote:

Hi Brandon,

This question is not specific to Mezzanine. I believe you want to read 
up on Django's custom template tags 
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-template-tags/. 
Let us know if that gets it done.


-ken

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Hello,
I would like a way where I can check the code that is in the text
editor when it is submitted to be saved for blog and page text.
I would like to be able to place variables in my code without
creating a separate template for every page with the variables.
I have a variable as my age. So I would like it to update every
year. I would like to write something like:
[brandon_age]
or
{{brandon_age}}
and when my check finds the set of brakets like that, have it
check for a function or variable in a file and if it matches, show
the result. Where would I place this check?
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Re: [mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-23 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs

Hello,
A guy at A2 hosting figured it out. Because I use Windows and the
servers are Linux, my text editor was adding a strange character to the
end of each line:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
That why it worked on Windows, but not on Linux. Could this be mentioned
in the guide somewhere? It shouldn't happen if system files are not
modified by me though.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 7:08 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello,
I am using the pip version with mysql.
I think it may be mysql that has the problem as one of the error
messages hinted at mysql, but this is a little out of what I've done
before, so could be reading it wrong.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 6:23 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:

Hi Brandon. Adding to Ken's answer:

Are you using the latest version from the master branch, or the
stable version from pip?

For the latest version, the documentation was updated to include a
tutorial that should take you from a blank VPS to a working Mezzanine
site.
http://mezzanine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deployment.html#tutorial.

For the stable version, use the current docs and this tutorial:
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/deploying-mezzanine-to-digital-ocean-using-the-included-fabfile/.

Bottom line for both cases: You most likely don't need to touch the
fabfile, just the FABRIC dictionary that's commented out in
local_settings.py. Fabric will pull all the settings it needs from
there.

[mezzanine-users] Re: Left-hand tree is not showing up in latest branch

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Messing around some more, I found that only when the page was not 
fullscreen did the left-hand tree not show up. There are a lot of things 
that don't work with the screen not maximized. For example, the + above 
the pages does not work.
Also, when I have bottom-level pages checked to show in the left-hand 
tree, but not the top, they don't show when I click on the top level 
page. For example:

about/ (not checked)
teem (checked)
history (checked)
blog/ (not checked)
Gallery (checked)
...

My first thought, and what I would like to happen, is when I click on 
about for the two items under blog to show up. About doesn't show, but 
teem and history show. You get that left hand tree when you are in 
history, teem and about. But when you click on blog, you only get 
Gallery in the left tree.
Is there a reason for the functionality not working this way? On most 
websites it is pretty normal for something like this to happen.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 12:24 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello,
I just installed mezzanine yesterday and I am not seeing the Left-hand 
tree.

The list of links under the h2/h2
The code looks to be there in base.html, but nothing is showing up.
In the default pages there is:
about/
blog
history...

On both blog and history the show in   Left-hand tree box is checked, 
but on the about page there is nothing under the breadcrumbs.

Thanks,

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[mezzanine-users] having a link to switch between MCE Editor and Pagedown?

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Is it possible to have a link to switch between the default MCE Editor 
and Pagedown? I think what one would need to do is have both initialized 
and then with Javascript hide one and have a link show one or the other. 
Then one could save the localized setting on the person's computer or 
even on the server, but I'm not 100% sure how one would do the server 
(probably through ajax).
So far, the installing of mezzanine packages is a little too complex for 
me to comprehend, but I am wondering if anyone has already done 
something like this?

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[mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Does anyone know how I would fix this error? I got it after hitting yes 
on install optional pages from the python manage.py createdb. I don't 
have Root access:


1: UserWarning: A file was saved that contains unicode characters in its 
path, but somehow the current locale does not support utf-8. You may 
need to set 'LC_ALL' to a correct value, eg: 'en_US.UTF-8'.

  warn(A file was saved that contains unicode 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File manage.py, line 28, in module
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

__init__.py, line 399, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

__init__.py, line 392, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

base.py, line 242, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme

nt/commands/createdb.py, line 33, in handle_noargs
syncdb.Command().execute(**options)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

commands/syncdb.py, line 112, in handle_noargs
emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/

sql.py, line 216, in emit_post_sync_signal
interactive=interactive, db=db)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatc

her.py, line 185, in send
response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme

nt/__init__.py, line 68, in create_pages
install_optional_data(verbosity)
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme

nt/__init__.py, line 109, in install_optional_data
gallery.save()
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/galleries/mod

els.py, line 101, in save
native(str(name, errors=ignore)))
  File 
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/future/builtins/backpor

ts/newstr.py, line 100, in __new__
return super(newstr, cls).__new__(cls, value)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 1: 
ordinal

not in range(128)


I'm using python 2.7. Would this get fixed with python 3? I've tried 
fixing the .bashrc file, but I was not able to reload it. Is there any 
way to just reinstall the sample pages?

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[mezzanine-users] Left-hand tree is not showing up in latest branch

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I just installed mezzanine yesterday and I am not seeing the Left-hand tree.
The list of links under the h2/h2
The code looks to be there in base.html, but nothing is showing up.
In the default pages there is:
about/
blog
history...

On both blog and history the show in   Left-hand tree box is checked, 
but on the about page there is nothing under the breadcrumbs.

Thanks,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Could this question please be placed on the FAQ?
Give me a little bit and once I figure out how to fix it, I will write a 
3-5 step tutorial to fix it.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 4:33 PM, Ken Bolton wrote:

Hi Brandon,

This is probably the most frequently asked question of all FAQ to this 
list.


The short answer is that your locale is set up improperly. You can see 
example code of how to establish your locale correctly at 
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/fabfile.py#L461-L465 
and 
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/fabfile.py#L496-L498. 
Note that the default value for env.locale at that point in the code 
is en_US.UTF-8.


hth.

-ken

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com wrote:


Hello,
Does anyone know how I would fix this error? I got it after
hitting yes on install optional pages from the python manage.py
createdb. I don't have Root access:

1: UserWarning: A file was saved that contains unicode characters
in its path, but somehow the current locale does not support
utf-8. You may need to set 'LC_ALL' to a correct value, eg:
'en_US.UTF-8'.
  warn(A file was saved that contains unicode 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File manage.py, line 28, in module
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py, line 399, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py, line 392, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 242, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/commands/createdb.py, line 33, in handle_noargs
syncdb.Command().execute(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
commands/syncdb.py, line 112, in handle_noargs
emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
sql.py, line 216, in emit_post_sync_signal
interactive=interactive, db=db)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatc
her.py, line 185, in send
response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/__init__.py, line 68, in create_pages
install_optional_data(verbosity)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/__init__.py, line 109, in install_optional_data
gallery.save()
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/galleries/mod
els.py, line 101, in save
native(str(name, errors=ignore)))
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/future/builtins/backpor
ts/newstr.py, line 100, in __new__
return super(newstr, cls).__new__(cls, value)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in
position 1: ordinal
not in range(128)


I'm using python 2.7. Would this get fixed with python 3? I've
tried fixing the .bashrc file, but I was not able to reload it. Is
there any way to just reinstall the sample pages?
Thanks,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
So I don't really understand fab files.
Is the fabric.api.env.locale really something on the local machine that 
I can set by hand? How do I set it to be correct? How do I find what is 
correct? Should I say where I am or where the host is? Or does it just 
need to match with the timezone? I asked my host about supporting utf-8 
and they say they do, but I am still getting this error.
Is there something I need to modify in my settings.py file to match with 
the system?

thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 4:33 PM, Ken Bolton wrote:

Hi Brandon,

This is probably the most frequently asked question of all FAQ to this 
list.


The short answer is that your locale is set up improperly. You can see 
example code of how to establish your locale correctly at 
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/fabfile.py#L461-L465 
and 
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/fabfile.py#L496-L498. 
Note that the default value for env.locale at that point in the code 
is en_US.UTF-8.


hth.

-ken

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com wrote:


Hello,
Does anyone know how I would fix this error? I got it after
hitting yes on install optional pages from the python manage.py
createdb. I don't have Root access:

1: UserWarning: A file was saved that contains unicode characters
in its path, but somehow the current locale does not support
utf-8. You may need to set 'LC_ALL' to a correct value, eg:
'en_US.UTF-8'.
  warn(A file was saved that contains unicode 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File manage.py, line 28, in module
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py, line 399, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py, line 392, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 242, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/commands/createdb.py, line 33, in handle_noargs
syncdb.Command().execute(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 285, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py, line 415, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
commands/syncdb.py, line 112, in handle_noargs
emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
sql.py, line 216, in emit_post_sync_signal
interactive=interactive, db=db)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatc
her.py, line 185, in send
response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/__init__.py, line 68, in create_pages
install_optional_data(verbosity)
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/core/manageme
nt/__init__.py, line 109, in install_optional_data
gallery.save()
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mezzanine/galleries/mod
els.py, line 101, in save
native(str(name, errors=ignore)))
  File
/home/brandon3/site1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/future/builtins/backpor
ts/newstr.py, line 100, in __new__
return super(newstr, cls).__new__(cls, value)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in
position 1: ordinal
not in range(128)


I'm using python 2.7. Would this get fixed with python 3? I've
tried fixing the .bashrc file, but I was not able to reload it. Is
there any way to just reinstall the sample pages?
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Re: [mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs

Hello,
I am using A2 hosting's shared host. There is no Sudo privileges, but
there is ssh access. They give a tutorial:

https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/python/installing-and-configuring-mezzanine-on-shared-hosting
And here is my website where I followed everything exactly:
brandonkeithbi...@a2hosted.com http://brandonkeithbi...@a2hosted.com

I am a little Hesitant to do Digital ocean because:
1. I don't use Linux as my normal computer
2. I have never used Linux to do a server

So I am scared there will be all kinds of security risks.
are my fears founded? I really know nothing about running a server.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 6:23 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:

Hi Brandon. Adding to Ken's answer:

Are you using the latest version from the master branch, or the stable
version from pip?

For the stable version, use the current docs and this tutorial:
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/deploying-mezzanine-to-digital-ocean-using-the-included-fabfile/.

Re: [mezzanine-users] problems with unicode

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I am using the pip version with mysql.
I think it may be mysql that has the problem as one of the error 
messages hinted at mysql, but this is a little out of what I've done 
before, so could be reading it wrong.

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 6:23 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:

Hi Brandon. Adding to Ken's answer:

Are you using the latest version from the master branch, or the stable 
version from pip?


For the latest version, the documentation was updated to include a 
tutorial that should take you from a blank VPS to a working Mezzanine 
site. 
http://mezzanine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deployment.html#tutorial.


For the stable version, use the current docs and this tutorial: 
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/deploying-mezzanine-to-digital-ocean-using-the-included-fabfile/.


Bottom line for both cases: You most likely don't need to touch the 
fabfile, just the FABRIC dictionary that's commented out in 
local_settings.py. Fabric will pull all the settings it needs from there.




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[mezzanine-users] Host with Mezzanine already installed with basic SSH and FTP Access?

2015-06-20 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs

Hello,
Is there already someone on here who is doing this? I am wanting a host
where I can pretty much just worry about building my website, not
dealing with getting a host or anything like that.

I believe what one could do is:
Have a system and cut the disk space into different chunks, offer
folders with public_http, public_ftp, www and whatnot, offer the ssh
access but without sudo and with virtualenvwrapper, then already have a
sample Mezzanine project I can either copy (if I wanted to have a second
site), or just use. I could also have my WP site on there while I am
waiting for my Mezzanine to be migrated.
I am thinking of something a little more geeky than wordpress.com, but
with wordpress.com abilities if one wishes.
If the development teem had something like this, I know I would sell it
to all of my friends, especially if I could do either a reseller or
referral program.
This would allow there to be a constant stream of income for Mezzanine
and I would probably be the first customer...!
Then we can really focus on developing our Mezzanine sites and not so
much on everything else.

Is there something like this already?
If not, how difficult would it be to setup something like this?

Competition:
There are a whole lot of hosts, but none, to my knowledge, really have
anything django preinstalled.
Digital Ocean requires one to choose their OS, make sure everything is
updated, create the correct folders and change the correct files, do
other things to make their system production ready, then make sure their
DB is OK, know enough to fill out the table in the fab.py file, then to
have python installed on their computer. There is no reseller system,
although one could be a host like I said above. I don't know how
creating a good DB is, but I don't think I will be using mysql.
WebFaction: It is a little more expensive than Digital ocean and I've
never used them, but they are the same, but they give one a lot more
space and bandwidth. They don't have a reseller program, although I
think one could do what I suggested above. They do have DBs one can
create through their front-end site.
A2 hosting: They do what I said above, They are the least expensive for
the first 2 years, then jump up to about as much as WebFaction. They
don't give as much space as WebFaction though. They use C panel and they
have shared accounts with ssh access like what I outlined above. They
also have a reseller and a referral program.

So no one seems to really offer Django already installed along with the
ability to use other things like wordPress on the same server. I really
like C panel, so it is one of the things I like to see when searching
for a host.

The customers would be 3 different people:
1. People who know python and would like to know they are running a
python server. They know that their CMS runs django and if they wish,
they can modify files in python.
2. The above python programmers, but who would like to sell websites to
clients along with a domain and a subscription to a host. (This would be
me).
3. Random non programmers who would like a site up and running ASAP and
who are not really going to touch their site. They can get in contact
with number 2 if they would like something more done.

This is what I have observed and would really really love to see a host
with django and Mezzanine already up and running, but with the option to
run WordPress or any of the other PHP sites along side it.

Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 7:08 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/20/2015 6:23 PM, Eduardo Rivas wrote:

Hi Brandon. Adding to Ken's answer:

Are you using the latest version from the master branch, or the
stable version from pip?

For the stable version, use the current docs and this tutorial:
http://bitofpixels.com/blog/deploying-mezzanine-to-digital-ocean-using-the-included-fabfile/.

Re: [mezzanine-users] Question about switching between production and local servers

2015-06-19 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
So I read through that guide and I have more questions...
Why does mezzanine itself have ssh info? One can't ssh into mezzanine, 
that is not how ssh works is it?
Also, what exactly does this fabfile.py do? If I run it on my windows 
what will it do? Will it work the same in Linux?

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/19/2015 7:17 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello Ken,
my question is more along the lines of:
what needs to change between windows and Linux?
Can I just create everything on my windows and git it to the Linux and 
have it work?

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/19/2015 7:00 PM, Ken Bolton wrote:

Hi Brandon,

There are as many answers to your question as there are stars in the sky.

My preferred flow is described in this rather old blog post 
http://bscientific.org/blog/mezzanine-fabric-git-vagrant-joy/. All 
development happens on a virtual machine hosted on my local 
development box. This virtual machine is identical to the production 
machine. I deploy to the virtual machine as often as necessary, and 
any big changes get tested as both upgrades and from-scratch. When it 
comes time to deploy to production, you've already practiced the 
deployment to the virtual machine.


hth.

-ken

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
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Hello,
I am kind of new to servers and would like to know what would be
the best way for me to alternate between production and local
servers? How do people do this normally?
I am running a windows computer for my local environment and Unix
for my server.
Should I create a virtualenv on my windows and use that to
configure mezzanine on my Linux server? Would that work?
For files, is git or doing everything through filezilla better?
Can I git the whole server? or will I need to change some
settings between the two?
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[mezzanine-users] Question about switching between production and local servers

2015-06-19 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I am kind of new to servers and would like to know what would be the 
best way for me to alternate between production and local servers? How 
do people do this normally?
I am running a windows computer for my local environment and Unix for my 
server.
Should I create a virtualenv on my windows and use that to configure 
mezzanine on my Linux server? Would that work?

For files, is git or doing everything through filezilla better?
Can I git the whole server? or will I need to change some settings 
between the two?

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Re: [mezzanine-users] Question about switching between production and local servers

2015-06-19 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello Ken,
my question is more along the lines of:
what needs to change between windows and Linux?
Can I just create everything on my windows and git it to the Linux and 
have it work?

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/19/2015 7:00 PM, Ken Bolton wrote:

Hi Brandon,

There are as many answers to your question as there are stars in the sky.

My preferred flow is described in this rather old blog post 
http://bscientific.org/blog/mezzanine-fabric-git-vagrant-joy/. All 
development happens on a virtual machine hosted on my local 
development box. This virtual machine is identical to the production 
machine. I deploy to the virtual machine as often as necessary, and 
any big changes get tested as both upgrades and from-scratch. When it 
comes time to deploy to production, you've already practiced the 
deployment to the virtual machine.


hth.

-ken

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
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Hello,
I am kind of new to servers and would like to know what would be
the best way for me to alternate between production and local
servers? How do people do this normally?
I am running a windows computer for my local environment and Unix
for my server.
Should I create a virtualenv on my windows and use that to
configure mezzanine on my Linux server? Would that work?
For files, is git or doing everything through filezilla better?
Can I git the whole server? or will I need to change some settings
between the two?
thanks,

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Re: [mezzanine-users] Suggestions for PyCon talk on Mezzanine

2015-06-04 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
As a Key note, this can show developers how they can take control of 
their websites completely in python.
Currently app developers don't really need to know about web development 
in python. I have been developing in python for 4 or 5 years and still 
have not really gotten into using any web based system of python.

I think Mezzanine can really help to bridge the gap.
My experience and problem is that I don't have time to learn django on 
django and bring it to Mezzanine. So mezzanine is the best CMS I have 
found, but it is still a couple inches shy of me being able to invest 
time to migrate all my websites over. If I have time to develop an app 
for a website, then I would be able to learn django, but for basic 
website migration and building, I really want to know how to get up and 
running ASAP.

Taking the setup WordPress has, I need to:
1. create a DB and copy the WP files into a dir on my website. Then I 
need to edit the settings to have the log in info for the db. Most web 
hosts do this for me.

2. Log into my wp site, create an admin and change the home URL
3. Create web pages by clicking on create page and paste in html and 
if I need to make a new page, I just type html and the text not in html 
gets a p tag. For uploading media, I click on the upload media link 
and it gives me a brows dialogue and once I tag it all correctly with 
the built fields, I press OK and it inserts the correct URL into my page.
4. find a plugin like WooCommerce that lets me sell products. I setup my 
paypal account's info with WooCommerce and make a product with a title, 
text about it and price.
5. make a menu by clicking on the create menu button and add all my 
pages into that.

6. Get a plugin that makes an xml map of my site and submit it to google.
7. Tell all my friends about my site.

Can Mezzanine deploying be put into under 10 steps like this? There is 
no learn PHP it is all without programming at all. This gets users. 
But then once I am invested into Mezzanine and I would like to make an 
app for crowd funding or watching the Olympics I can build it in django.
A talk that breaks down these simple steps from getting a host to having 
a built website should really help many python developers make the step 
from WP or something else to Mezzanine.
In a world where time is money and everyone needs a website, Mezzanine 
is a perfect answer. People just need to be shown this.


A talk about how to run an opensource project would also be pretty nice. 
All the steps for setting up the package, using git, putting it up on 
Git Hub, sinking it with Pypy, advertising it and whatnot would also be 
really awesome.

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/4/2015 9:22 AM, Graham wrote:

Ha, nice idea!
Sounds like a U2 concert I went to once, where Bono phoned people from 
the stage!

g

On 04/06/15 19:01, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello Stephen,
Talk about how to get a website up and running with Mezzanine.
I would like to see the process from finding the correct hosting 
package to run it to having a website up and creating users and pages.

When looking for a package I want to know:
1. What is it?
2. Why do I need it?
3. how do I get it to work?
You can answer the first two questions in two sentences and then the 
3rd is your presentation.
This shouldn't overlap with your last talk at all! It would also be 
something that can be posted on the website for new users. Perhaps 
you can get a call from a client on stage and they say they would 
like a website with a blog, an about me, a contact us and a store to 
sell their hand made horse Santa hats.
Then you can log into a hosting service (you may be able to talk to 
PythonAnywhere 
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/login/?next=/user/frastlin/consoles/ 
if you don't have one that comes to mind) and deploy Mezzanine. Then 
you can create the different pages and have someone from the audience 
visit your website!
I think this would really do a lot for showing people just how simple 
Mezzanine is, much more than just a talk. Wouldn't you also be more 
comfortable using Mezzanine rather than just talking about it?

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 6/4/2015 3:52 AM, Stephen McDonald wrote:

Hi all,

TLDR: I need help thinking of a good talk topic for Mezzanine at 
PyCon Philippines next month.


A bit of background - last year I gave a talk on Mezzanine at PyCon 
APAC in Taiwan, if you haven't listened to it it's available online 
[1]. Fair warning, I'm not a very experienced speaker and I think 
some people might find my style literally boring, but if you're a 
huge fan of Mezzanine you'll probably find it interesting. I tried 
to make this the definitive talk on Mezzanine, covering everything 
from the background that led to it, how it's constructed, its 
features, and the surrounding ecosystem. I think I tried to pack too 
much into it at once, as I went somewhat over the allotted time.


Now

Re: [mezzanine-users] Re: The Readme on Github - I would like to give it a revamp

2015-05-24 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I believe most people who read the readme on github have already seen 
the website.
So they would like to know technical stuff and how to get started and do 
basic and essential things.
Perhaps a link to Dgango's guide and then instructions on how to get 
started and instructions on how to deploy.

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 5/24/2015 11:20 AM, Graham wrote:

Hello all...
I am also interested in the 'who' and the 'why' and this may help us 
decide what should go in the README...


*Who* are we designing the README for?
*Why* would the reader of the README choose to become involved, what 
would 'hook them in'?

*Why* choose Mezzanine over any other 'similar' project?
*Who* would we like to attract to the project / to use Mezzanine?
Is there a minimum skill level that we want to mention?

Clearly I have my own responses to these questions, but interested to 
hear others points of view before I unduly influence anyone!


Cheers
g


On 24/05/15 05:40, Stephen McDonald wrote:



On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Mathias Ettinger 
mathias.ettin...@gmail.com mailto:mathias.ettin...@gmail.com wrote:


Why not swap it entirely with doc/overview.rst?


I think this will be the general approach - move stuff out of the 
README, and directly into the docs, and adding links in the README 
back to the docs for these moved pieces.


Here's my initial thoughts on each section, feedback welcome.

Overview - leave as is
Features - leave as is
Dependencies - move to end of installation section
Installation - move to overview in docs, and link from README
Themes - move to overview in docs, no link needed from README
Browser support - move to overview in docs, no link needed from README
Contributing - leave as is
Multi-lingual sites - already has a docs section, merge into that or 
remove

Third party plugins - move to overview in docs, and link from README
Donating - leave as is
Support - leave as is, but move up to a more prominent spot (the 
number of invalid issues opened when posting to the mailing list 
would suffice is overwhelming)
Sites using Mezzanine - move to overview in docs, and link from 
README (refactoring demo site required)

Quotes - leave as is






This way, what relies on README.rst today can rely on
overview.rst tomorow without breaking anything. Or is the point
to shorten both?


Le vendredi 22 mai 2015 22:32:01 UTC+2, Stephen McDonald a écrit :

It's a good idea.

Please keep in mind there's some functionality of the project
site dependent on the format of the readme, particularly
those lists we'll probably remove:


https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine.jupo.org/blob/master/demo/__init__.py

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Geo djge...@gmail.com wrote:

+1

Mezzanine's Readme is, at the time of writing, 795 lines
long - pretty much an essay! The GH Readme for Django
itself is short and sweet at just 44 lines. That's a
massive 94% reduction in lines.

If you are looking for a python CMS to use, you want to
read about 3 key features of Mezzanine that make it stand
out from all the others, that's all. Then one could link
to the Mezzanine website and documentation website for
further details and even for installation steps etc.

Just my thoughts. Interesting to hear what the core devs
think...


On Friday, 22 May 2015 10:43:37 UTC+1, Graham Oliver wrote:

Hi all
I would like to have a go at revamping the readme on
GitHub
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/README.rst

Initial thoughts
- Make it way shorter
- Put the 'third party plugins' and 'sites using
Mezzanine' lists in separate documents
- Add details of 'Core Development Team'

Possibly also something for people (relatively) new
to the Open Source thing.

All feedback appreciated...

This one I quite like (apart from the crypto stuff)
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/README

Take Care
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Re: [mezzanine-users] Real Time update of orders

2015-05-14 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
If you did not want to write in Javascript, you can alternatively do an 
ajax call using python in brython:

http://brython.info/doc/en/index.html#
it is under
Brython-specific built-in modules / browser.ajax

Although I would first read all the stuff under
Browser interface
if you have not yet used brython.

It will look the same to the user, it will just be in python and its 
built-in modules rather than javascript and its strange syntax.

thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 5/14/2015 5:43 PM, Josh Cartmell wrote:
Hi Andrew, I would set up some javascript that would make an ajax call 
every 5, 10, 30 seconds (whatever interval works for you) and then 
would update the orders on the page if any new ones had come in.


I think that would be much easier to set up than trying to make things 
literally real time.  Even websockets will have latency so nothing is 
truly real time, just an approximation. The question is how good of an 
approximation you need to have.


To make this more efficient you could have your javascript store the 
most recent order number, then on whatever interval you decide it 
makes a call that only checks what the most recent order number is in 
the database.  If it has changed from what you had stored you then 
make a separate call that reloads the orders (or just loads the newest 
ones).


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Andrew Fam andrew.fa...@gmail.com 
mailto:andrew.fa...@gmail.com wrote:


Hey Stephen thanks for this.

Yes I understand AJAX and a real time update.

The store Im working with sells quite fast moving products and
needed a consolidated orders view that would be automatically
updated once orders came in.
So, instead of having to click refresh the page to see the new
orders, I was looking for a way for the page to update once a new
order came in.

Best regards,
Andrew


On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 7:03:58 AM UTC+8, Stephen McDonald wrote:

Hi there,

real time is incredibly vague and begs for a stricter
definition. The true meaning indicates a guaranteed response
time, which is most likely not what your client means
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing).

What they most likely mean is submits without reloading the
page, in which case, rather than introducing a whole separate
moving part into your stack (a websocket server), along with
what appears to be another framework, you could achieve the
desired result simply by making an AJAX request in the
checkout process.

If unfortunately your client actually means has to use
websockets, then you might be able monkey-patch the relevant
model doing something like:

Foo.__bases__ = (SelfPublishModel,) + Foo.__bases__

But before you go down that path I think you'd do yourself and
your client a favour by educating them on using the best tool
for the job rather than having them dictate your architecture
to you :-)

Good luck!



On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Andrew Fam
andrew...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm thinking of using mezzanine but a client wants a real
time update of orders.

http://swampdragon.net/documentation/quick-start/

from  django.db  import  models
from  swampdragon.models  import  SelfPublishModel
from  .serializers  import  FooSerializer


class  Foo(SelfPublishModel,  models.Model):
 serializer_class  =  FooSerializer
 text  =  models.CharField(max_length=100)


Got this off the swampdragon page and they require an
addition of SelfPublishModel to any object that you need
realtime support.
Any idea how to do this with cartridge?


Best regarsd,
Andrew
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Re: [mezzanine-users] Official Docker Repo

2015-05-06 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
This would be really awesome! but how would it work with django and 
python as a dependency?

Would you distribute python with it?
thanks,

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On 5/6/2015 7:19 PM, Flavio Barros wrote:
I just saw this post at Docker blog: 
http://blog.docker.com/2015/05/two-new-official-images-added-in-april/#more-5385


What about a Mezzanine's official repo?
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Re: [mezzanine-users] Some newbie questions for someone moving from WP to mezzanine

2015-05-01 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Then there are the folks who know programming, but don't know python or 
django or if they do, don't know the strange stuff that has to do with 
web development. Either that or they don't know any html above h1/h1.
What I was thinking is getting a reseller account at A2 hosting or 
something like that and have a full mezzanine setup for each new person.
Then offer an installer or something for new themes. This shouldn't be 
too difficult, just offer an upload screen where you can select your 
theme and once it is uploaded, you can activate it. (activating would 
basically just be changing the settings.py file.)

That way people could use the current themes.
Of coarse they would get FTP access, but the point is to limit FTP 
access, so you don't need to deal with anything but the front-end.
Then for super-users there could be a page where you could enter python 
code and add it to something like short-codes. For example, I have on my 
website a short-code in wordPress to display my age. It changes every 
year so I don't need to update my age every year. So it looks like:


Brandon Keith Biggs is a [age name=brandon] year old singer, 
programmer and avid book-lover.


and it comes out as:

Brandon Keith Biggs is a 23 year old singer, programmer and avid book-lover.

In wordPress you make a function in functions.php and add it to the 
short-code list. I was thinking this could be nearly the same in 
mezzanine, but you could modify the functions.py file only if you are 
super-user.


I, for example, would love a setup like that. I really don't mind what 
theme I have, but I would like to be able to place variables or 
references to HTML blocks different places.


The reason why I am looking for a CMS other than WP is because I am 
trying to create a website that is a little more advanced than what I 
need for my personal website. I would like to make my personal website 
in mezzanine though.


I would like also to tell people to get a mezzanine hosted website as 
then I can help them if they need. Also, making plugins in django is way 
easier than in PHP...


Having an already setup mezzanine site on a person's new hosting account 
would make it so they just need to worry about learning how the CMS 
works and possibly django.


What would be the downside to something like this?
I have never worked for anyone who really tried to muck around with 
anything they weren't supposed to and generally if you mess up your 
website it is kind of your fault. There is always the back-up... Or you 
can pay me to fix it.
I am not sure about mezzanine, but in wordPress there is a way to 
separate users out to have different permissions. This group of users 
can add blog posts and that is it. These users can add pages under this 
category and that is it, these users can make products, add pages and 
blog posts, These users can add themes, plugins, pages, products and 
blog posts, these users can add or remove users below them, add themes, 
plugins...


So perhaps there could be superadmin and that has access to the script 
file, changing themes and whatnot, then normaladmin could add or remove 
accounts, add pages and menus and basically everything not code or theme 
related.


So it is, I believe, something like
https://webflow.com/
just in mezzanine and the ability to learn django if you wish.

Is there a problem with something like this?
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 5/1/2015 2:55 PM, Luke Plant wrote:

Hi Brandon, Keith,

I think Keith is referring to the thread I started earlier about a 
service that would provide a very easy way to install Mezzanine.


Like you Brandon, I'd love to be able to recommend a Django-based 
alternative to WordPress. It seems that there isn't a solution like 
this yet. There is a real question in my mind about whether 
non-developers can really produce good quality web sites without 
learning quite a bit about coding. All of the approaches I know have 
serious problems:


1) The WordPress approach:

The biggest problem is security. WordPress themes and plugins are just 
PHP code. The system  suffers terribly in terms of security because of 
that. A WordPress site inherits all of the security problems that PHP has:


https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Security_Cheat_Sheet

In addition, WordPress adds it's own:

  * 'convenient' SQL APIs that makes SQL injection vulnerabilities
extremely likely.
  * use of PHP as template language, which makes XSS very likely,
  * complete lack of proper structure in request handling, which makes
access permission vulnerabilities very likely.
  * Ability to edit the PHP templates, which means that admin access
to a WordPress site (e.g. through a guessed password) immediately
elevates to a remote execution vulnerability - the most serious kind.

I recently evaluated the practicality of using WordPress as a cheap 
replacement for our current church website. I found a professional 
looking plugin

Re: [mezzanine-users] Some newbie questions for someone moving from WP to mezzanine

2015-04-28 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
I am reading the content architecture page and I am wondering where the 
.py files are supposed to be saved and how they interact with the HTML 
pages? I generally like to type out the examples given and then break 
them or change them.
I have no django experience, so should I go through their tutorial 
before going into mezzanine, or can I start with mezzanine then go into 
django if I wish?

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 4/28/2015 7:28 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

Hello,
I think I figured out how to use the editor, you need to click on the 
html entry area in order to create HTML, then it makes little fields 
that are what you wrote.
Is there a place where I can edit how that add page looks like? I 
would like to add a heading at either the text that says:

Content:

or

Rich Text Area

Either that, or make it so when you press tab you are put into the 
text editor.
Currently I have to press 3 really weird key commands to move from the 
title to the text field. It is really not user friendly for me. (I 
have to press capslock+space to exit the forms area, x to move to the 
menu checkbox, then shift tab to get into the richtext area.)

Also, is there a key command to switch to the html editor within MCE?
I am having a weird problem that the insert link button is grayed out, 
so in order to add a link I have to go into the source and add the 
link. Does anyone know what may cause this?

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 4/28/2015 5:31 PM, Josh Cartmell wrote:
Hi Brandon, I don't understand the first question.  What was the 
input and what would you expect it to produce?


The widget probably needs to be updated to django.forms.Textarea I 
had been thinking of something else when I omitted the django. 
previously.


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com mailto:brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com wrote:


Hello,
2 things:
1. setting the allowd markup to everything still produces
something like
h1Hello world/h1

and copying the line:
RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS = forms.Textarea

gives the following error:

ImproperlyConfigured at /admin/pages/richtextpage/9/
Could not import the value of settings.RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS:
forms.Textarea
Request Method:
GET
Request URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/pages/richtextpage/9/
Django Version:
1.6.11
Exception Type:
ImproperlyConfigured
Exception Value:
Could not import the value of settings.RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS:
forms.Textarea

Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
On 4/22/2015 4:46 PM, Josh Cartmell wrote:

Hi Brandon, hopefully the following are helpful answers!

 1. Title + the publishing controls are present across all
things that inherit from the Displayable class where as the
type of content on those various models will vary from class
to class.  Blog Posts have categories and content, Rich Text
Pages just have content, Links have no content, etc... All
the admin classes of those models inherit from Displayable
so they end up all having those things grouped.  Besides the
technical reasons I think the consistency is useful and I
find it nice to always be able to have the publishing
controls right there.
 2. The editor is a WYSIWYG, particularly one called TinyMCE. 
Here's what they have to say about accessibility,

http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/TinyMCE3x:Accessibility, but
maybe some or all of that isn't working?
You can change what is used though, for example in your
project's settings.py file you could put:
RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS = forms.Textarea
Doing that should get rid of the WYSIWYG and those types of
fields should just show up as normal HMTL textareas.  That
would affect any admin user, not just yourself.
 3. There isn't anything like that built in, there might be
other projects that do things like that for Django that you
could integrate with Mezzanine.
 4. I don't think we have considered Brython but it should be
easy to integrate any front end technology you want.  Right
now Mezzanine ships with Twitter Bootstrap as a frontend
framework and I think most people, myself included, are very
happy with it. But really, Mezzanine doesn't force front end
technology on you, it just default to Twitter Bootstrap and
you can change that easily by changing your project's base.html
Brython does look interesting though so I may have to take a
look at it at some point!
 5. Mezzanine does have some user account/profile support.  Here
are the docs,
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/user-accounts.html. Mezzanine
doesn't have any social login support but there are quite

[mezzanine-users] using facebook comments

2015-04-27 Thread Brandon Keith Biggs


Hello,
Is there a simple way to use FB comments as the default commenting system?
I see several different systems, but not facebook.
Are there advantages to using these other systems over Facebook? Using 
facebook, people can comment and share it on their wall, they can login 
to your site and you can get their info, you can put like buttons and 
share buttons and I think some other things.

Thanks,

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