We recently launched the Datasette Cloud blog, which is implemented as a Django app using Django and PostgreSQL. Each customer has a dedicated container running Datasette. The blog includes features like titles, summaries, bodies, publication dates, author information, and tags. Posts can be live or drafts, and the blog has an Atom feed. The Django model for the blog includes properties for rendering summaries and bodies as Markdown. The views.py file defines view functions for different pages of the blog. An Atom feed is generated using the Django syndication feed framework. The blog also includes social media card metadata for better sharing on platforms like Mastodon and Twitter. The blog URL format follows a year-based naming convention. Tests have been added to ensure the functionality of the blog, including the Atom feed. The finished blog can be accessed at https://www.datasette.cloud/blog/.
https://til.simonwillison.net/django/building-a-blog-in-django