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Clint Ecker — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:58:07 -0000

Sorry about that mwdiers :) However, I've often found the best way to
learn something is to do it yourself. Happy coding!

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MWDiers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:41:03 -0000

Amazing. I just spent the last week implementing almost everything mentioned on this page from scratch. Then I find this blog.

Well, I learned a lot in the process - and most of my code is oriented toward a hierarchical page (using MPTT) and url structure (using a single view to parse url components and dispatch pages), so maybe it was worth doing it from scratch.

Oh, and I call them GCB's. (Global Content Blocks), and mine support integrated post-rendering (to render tags in content) as well as optionally can be associated with a DB based template. I'll post that eventually.

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Simon Litchfield — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:32:59 -0000

Nice! I've actually got something really similar, with a bunch of views, templatetags, optional dynamic form attachments, etc. I'll clean it up and share sometime. It's called 'editable pages' which I use for full pages aswell as chunks like this.

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Jason Davies — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:23:09 -0000

Cool stuff, I might use some of this myself...

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eurika — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:36:14 -0000

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Clint Ecker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:41:09 -0000

Awesome! I'm going to make a post about your snippet.

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zero — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:35:13 -0000

I do the same thing, but I called them "pods!" :)

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Matthias Pronk — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:53:18 -0000

Nice, I use exactly the same thing on my websites, I call it snippets.
I apply markdown to the snippets, and save that too in the model (for speed).

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itavor — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:15:58 -0000

I've been doing this using plain old flatpages... {% render_flatpage "left" %} in "/news/archive/" will render the flatpage with url "/news/archive/left". The url for flatpages used this way doesn't end in a '/', which makes it easy to filter them out of search results or site maps.

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Justin Lilly — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:18:54 -0000

Fantastic work. Look forward to using this on an upcoming client site! Thanks!

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kevin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:00:34 -0000

I have a similar model/concept locally. now it's an OS project and I can dump mine and use yours- awesome!

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vitalik — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:55:38 -0000

Thanks!
Thasts what I where looking for.

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Clint Ecker — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:42:03 -0000

Thanks guys! I think NFA could really help out the UI issues.

Another thing I've been thinking about is some sort of method to include stuff like this when you're editing flatpages. For example, I might want to link to another flatpage, but instead of an anchor link I might want to type:

`{% link "about-page' %}`

But, of course, that wouldn't get evaluated because it's not really in the template. Perhaps some sort of template filter. Not sure yet ;)

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Eric Florenzano — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:27:14 -0000

This is very cool! I can totally see using this. The best part about it is that it does one thing and does it well :)