Global Settings¶

BLOG_IMAGE_THUMBNAIL_SIZE: Size of the main image when shown on the post lists; it’s a dictionary with size, crop and upscale keys; (default: {'size': '120x120', 'crop': True,'upscale': False})
BLOG_IMAGE_FULL_SIZE: Size of the main image when shown on the post detail; it’s a dictionary with size, crop and upscale keys; (default: {'size': '640x120', 'crop': True,'upscale': False})
BLOG_PAGINATION: Number of post per page; (default: 10)
BLOG_MENU_EMPTY_CATEGORIES: Flag to show / hide categories without posts attached from the menu; (default: True)
BLOG_LATEST_POSTS: Default number of post in the Latest post plugin; (default: 5)
BLOG_POSTS_LIST_TRUNCWORDS_COUNT: Default number of words shown for abstract in the post list; (default: 100)
BLOG_TYPE: Generic type for the post object; (default: Article)
BLOG_TYPES: Choices of available blog types; (default: to META_OBJECT_TYPES defined in django-meta settings)
BLOG_FB_TYPE: Open Graph type for the post object; (default: Article)
BLOG_FB_TYPES: Choices of available blog types; (default: to META_FB_TYPES defined in django-meta settings)
BLOG_FB_APPID: Facebook Application ID
BLOG_FB_PROFILE_ID: Facebook profile ID of the post author
BLOG_FB_PUBLISHER: Facebook URL of the blog publisher
BLOG_FB_AUTHOR_URL: Facebook profile URL of the post author
BLOG_FB_AUTHOR: Facebook profile URL of the post author
BLOG_TWITTER_TYPE: Twitter Card type for the post object; (default: Summary)
BLOG_TWITTER_TYPES: Choices of available blog types for twitter; (default: to META_TWITTER_TYPES defined in django-meta settings)
BLOG_TWITTER_SITE: Twitter account of the site
BLOG_TWITTER_AUTHOR: Twitter account of the post author
BLOG_GPLUS_TYPE: Google+ Snippet type for the post object; (default: Blog)
BLOG_GPLUS_TYPES: Choices of available blog types for twitter; (default: to META_GPLUS_TYPES defined in django-meta settings)
BLOG_GPLUS_AUTHOR: Google+ account of the post author
BLOG_ENABLE_COMMENTS: Whether to enable comments by default on posts; while djangocms_blog does not ship any comment system, this flag can be used to control the chosen comments framework; (default: True)
BLOG_USE_ABSTRACT: Use an abstract field for the post; if False no abstract field is available for every post; (default: True)
BLOG_USE_PLACEHOLDER: Post content is managed via placeholder; if False a HTMLField is provided instead; (default: True)
BLOG_USE_RELATED: Enable related posts to link one post to others; (default: True)
BLOG_MULTISITE: Add support for multisite setup; (default: True)
BLOG_AUTHOR_DEFAULT: Use a default if not specified; if set to True the current user is set as the default author, if set to False no default author is set, if set to a string the user with the provided username is used; (default: True)
BLOG_DEFAULT_PUBLISHED: If posts are marked as published by default; (default: False)
BLOG_ADMIN_POST_FIELDSET_FILTER: Callable function to change(add or filter) fields to fieldsets for admin post edit form; (default: False). Function example:

def fieldset_filter_function(fsets, request, obj=None):
    if request.user.groups.filter(name='Editor').exists():
        fsets[1][1]['fields'][0].append('author')  # adding 'author' field if user is Editor
    return fsets

BLOG_AVAILABLE_PERMALINK_STYLES: Choices of permalinks styles;
BLOG_PERMALINK_URLS: URLConf corresponding to BLOG_AVAILABLE_PERMALINK_STYLES;
BLOG_URLCONF: Apphoo URLConf; (default: 'djangocms_blog.urls');
BLOG_DEFAULT_OBJECT_NAME: Default name for Blog item (used in django CMS Wizard);
BLOG_AUTO_SETUP: Enable the blog Auto setup feature; (default: True)
BLOG_AUTO_HOME_TITLE: Title of the home page created by Auto setup; (default: Home)
BLOG_AUTO_BLOG_TITLE: Title of the blog page created by Auto setup; (default: Blog)
BLOG_AUTO_APP_TITLE: Title of the BlogConfig instance created by Auto setup; (default: Blog)
BLOG_SITEMAP_PRIORITY_DEFAULT: Default priority for sitemap items; (default: 0.5)
BLOG_SITEMAP_CHANGEFREQ: List for available changefreqs for sitemap items; (default: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never)
BLOG_SITEMAP_CHANGEFREQ_DEFAULT: Default changefreq for sitemap items; (default: monthly)
BLOG_CURRENT_POST_IDENTIFIER: Current post identifier in request (default djangocms_post_current)
BLOG_CURRENT_NAMESPACE: Current post config identifier in request (default: djangocms_post_current_config)
BLOG_ENABLE_THROUGH_TOOLBAR_MENU: Is the toolbar menu throught whole all applications (default: False)
BLOG_PLUGIN_MODULE_NAME: Blog plugin module name (default: Blog)
BLOG_LATEST_ENTRIES_PLUGIN_NAME: Blog latest entries plugin name (default: Latest Blog Articles)
BLOG_AUTHOR_POSTS_PLUGIN_NAME: Blog author posts plugin name (default: Author Blog Articles)
BLOG_TAGS_PLUGIN_NAME: Blog tags plugin name (default: Tags)
BLOG_CATEGORY_PLUGIN_NAME: Blog categories plugin name (default: Categories)
BLOG_ARCHIVE_PLUGIN_NAME: Blog archive plugin name (default: Archive)
BLOG_FEED_CACHE_TIMEOUT: Cache timeout for RSS feeds
BLOG_FEED_INSTANT_ITEMS: Number of items in Instant Article feed
BLOG_FEED_LATEST_ITEMS: Number of items in latest items feed
BLOG_FEED_TAGS_ITEMS: Number of items in per tags feed
BLOG_PLUGIN_TEMPLATE_FOLDERS: (Sub-)folder from which the plugin templates are loaded. The default folder is plugins. It goes into the djangocms_blog template folder (or, if set, the folder named in the app hook). This allows, e.g., different templates for showing a post list as tables, columns, … . New templates have the same names as the standard templates in the plugins folder (latest_entries.html, authors.html, tags.html, categories.html, archive.html). Default behavior corresponds to this setting being ( ("plugins", _("Default template") ). To add new templates add to this setting, e.g., ('timeline', _('Vertical timeline') ).
BLOG_META_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH: Maximum length for the Meta description field (default: 320)
BLOG_META_TITLE_LENGTH: Maximum length for the Meta title field (default: 70)
BLOG_ABSTRACT_CKEDITOR: Configuration for the CKEditor of the abstract field (as per https://github.com/divio/djangocms-text-ckeditor/#customizing-htmlfield-editor)
BLOG_POST_TEXT_CKEDITOR: Configuration for the CKEditor of the post content field

Read-only settings¶

BLOG_MENU_TYPES: Available structures of the Blog menu; (default list Posts and Categories, Categories only, Posts only, None)
BLOG_MENU_TYPE: Structure of the Blog menu; (default: Posts and Categories)

Per-Apphook settings¶

The following settings can be configured for each Apphook config: the settings above will be used as defaults.

application title: Free text title that can be used as title in templates;
object name: Free text label for Blog items in django CMS Wizard;
Post published by default: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_DEFAULT_PUBLISHED;
Permalink structure: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_AVAILABLE_PERMALINK_STYLES;
Use placeholder and plugins for article body: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_USE_PLACEHOLDER;
Use abstract field: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_USE_ABSTRACT;
Enable related posts: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_USE_RELATED;
Set author: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_AUTHOR_DEFAULT;
Paginate sizePer-Apphook setting for BLOG_PAGINATION;
Template prefix: Alternative directory to load the blog templates from;
Menu structure: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_MENU_TYPE
Show empty categories in menu: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_MENU_EMPTY_CATEGORIES
Sitemap changefreq: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_SITEMAP_CHANGEFREQ_DEFAULT
Sitemap priority: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_SITEMAP_PRIORITY_DEFAULT
Object type: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_TYPE
Facebook type: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_FB_TYPE
Facebook application ID: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_FB_APP_ID
Facebook profile ID: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_FB_PROFILE_ID
Facebook page URL: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_FB_PUBLISHER
Facebook author URL: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_AUTHOR_URL
Facebook author: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_AUTHOR
Twitter type: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_TWITTER_TYPE
Twitter site handle: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_TWITTER_SITE
Twitter author handle: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_TWITTER_AUTHOR
Google+ type: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_GPLUS_TYPE
Google+ author name: Per-Apphook setting for BLOG_GPLUS_AUTHOR
Send notifications on post publish: Send desktop notifications when a post is published
Send notifications on post update: Send desktop notifications when a post is updated