📝 CodeJournal

A backend-focused weblog application built with Django and PostgreSQL.

This project demonstrates authentication, content management, image handling, PostgreSQL-powered search, user profiles, and custom Django features commonly used in real-world applications.

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🚀 Features

Feature	Description
🔐 Authentication	User registration, login, logout and profile management
📝 Post Management	Create, edit and delete blog posts
🖼️ Image Handling	Multiple images per post with automatic resizing
🗑️ Media Cleanup	Automatic deletion of unused uploaded files
💬 Comments	Comment system with moderation support
🔍 Search	PostgreSQL TrigramSimilarity-based search
📂 Categories	Filter posts by category
📄 Pagination	Efficient post listing
📊 Custom Template Tags	Blog statistics and latest posts
✍️ Markdown Support	Render Markdown content
📅 Jalali Dates	Persian date support using django-jalali

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Django 6
Database	PostgreSQL
Authentication	Django Auth
Search	PostgreSQL Trigram Search
Media Processing	django-resized
Date System	django-jalali

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📁 Project Structure

Django-Weblog/
├── Weblog/             # Project settings
├── blog/
│   ├── migrations/
│   ├── templates/
│   ├── static/
│   ├── templatetags/
│   ├── models.py
│   ├── views.py
│   └── forms.py
├── images/
│   ├── account_images/
│   └── post_images/
├── blog_data.json
├── requirements.txt
└── manage.py

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⚙️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/ShahabCode/Django-Weblog.git

cd Django-Weblog

pip install -r requirements.txt

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py loaddata blog_data.json

python manage.py createsuperuser

python manage.py runserver

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🔍 Backend Highlights

• Custom model manager (PublishedManager)
• PostgreSQL similarity search (TrigramSimilarity)
• Custom template tags and filters
• Automatic slug generation
• Image optimization and resizing
• Media cleanup using Django signals
• Form validation with custom clean methods
• User profile management with OneToOne relationships

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📚 Sample Data

The repository includes:

• blog_data.json fixture data
• Sample blog posts
• User profiles
• Media files for posts and accounts

Load the sample data with:

python manage.py loaddata blog_data.json

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🤝 Contributing

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are always appreciated. Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.