Contents

Lotus is a simple weblog engine that focus on proper content. There is multiple content kinds:

Article

The most important document kind. An article have many content types and relate to authors, categories, tags and other articles with the same language.

In addition to publication dates, an article have many state kinds which influence its visibility and may be used to change its look in layout integration.

Author

This is a simple proxy object to Django user object. They are assigned to articles as a simple references. Author does not have any additional contents to a Django user.

Category

A category is just a container to organize your main article thematics. It has a title, a cover and a free description.

A category detail will list its related articles.

Tag

This is alike Category but serve another content structure purposes. They are managed with django-taggit and does not have any other content than a name and a slug.

These tags can be shared with another applications using django-taggit but Lotus views are made to only show tag related to articles.

A tag detail will list its related articles. Tags are not subject to translation or language, a same tag can be shared throught differents languages.

Warning

The tag slug autocomplete should be forbidden to create since this word is used in some urls, therefore the Tag detail page would never be reachable.