My Personal Blog

Adding Markdown Support to the Blog

Adding markdown was relatively straightforward thanks to this tutorial. All I had to do was to import the markdown package in the views.py file and convert the post.body to markdown.

import markdown 
# ...
def blog_detail(request, pk):
    md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=["fenced_code"])
    post = Post.objects.get(pk=pk)
    post.body = md.convert(post.body)
# ...

I also had to modify the HTML template to flag the markdown to be rendered as safe:

<p>{{ post.body|safe | linebreaks }}</p>

For some reason the markdown is still pretty ugly, so I'll have to see if this could be fixed by a template.

While the change to the code was relatively simple, I struggled a bit with figuring out what the local development workflow should be. I ran into two issues.

1. I am using poetry to manage the environment, and for some reason Django was not installed, so I had to reinstall everything with poetry install --no-root. The --no-root was due to the install erroring out when trying to install the project. I'm not sure if that is a problem but it ended up working fine.


2. When I tried poetry run ./manage.py runserver, I got an error relating to the database. I realized this was due to some changes I had made to the settings.py file for deploying on Render. Notably, this entailed switching away from a SQLite db to postgres. I therefore had to figure out how to get postgres running (I downloaded the mac app, and ran postgres=# CREATE DATABASE personal_blog; to get the db I needed.)

So far this has been decent progress. I am realizing that:

• As usual, what I thought would be straightforward turns out to have a lot of different pitfalls, even for something that I expected to be quite simple (a basic blog)


• Writing out the process is helpful for consolidating what I did, even if my writing is lazy and poorly structured

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Comments:

On Jan. 19, 2024 Adrien wrote:

The linebreaks are massive. Why?

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Her mother, Rita, opted for this champagne-hued gown that was equally as ethereal.

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For a seashore marriage ceremony I would put on one thing a bit more flowy like the flowery and ruffly attire above.

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Light, sunny, and normally stuffed with flowers, and they often use pastel colors inspired by springtime blooms.

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