Django Classified

Features

• Item groups, categories and areas (for ex. Cities ot Locations)
• Image
  • upload multiple images per item
  • generating preview (via sorl-thumbnail)
  • display using Lightbox JS library
• Search ability
• SEO optimization
  • SEO-friendly urls
  • generating META description and meta keywords
  • sitemap.xml
  • robots.txt
  • RSS feed
  • Google Analytics integration
  • Open Graph protocol support
  • Support for non-Latin characters in URLs (Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.)
• Caching
• Translation
  • English
  • Russian
  • French (thanks to Teolemon)
  • Turkish (thanks to Mirat Can Bayrak)
  • Spanish (thanks to 4bimcad)
  • Help translate to other languages at Transifex

Requirements

• Python >=3.9
• Django >=4.2, <5.2

Design

• Twitter Bootstrap Jumbotron

Demo project

Demo project with user registration (via Email/Facebook) available here.

Installation

• Install app pip install django-classified
• Add django_classified to the INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # Default Django applications
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

     # Required by Django Classified
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.humanize',
    'django.contrib.sitemaps',

     # External applications required by Django Classified
    'bootstrapform',
    'sorl.thumbnail',
    'django_filters',

    # Django Classified
    'django_classified',
]

• Add SITE_ID to settings.py file:

SITE_ID = 1

• Import include in addition to path and add path('', include('django_classified.urls', namespace='django_classified')), to the project urls.py file:

from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('', include('django_classified.urls', namespace='django_classified')),
]

• Add 'django_classified.context_processors.common_values' to the settings TEMPLATES context_processors list:

TEMPLATES[0]['OPTIONS']['context_processors'].append('django_classified.context_processors.common_values')

Customization:

You can provide additional customization in settings.py

• DCF_SITE_NAME - Site title
• DCF_SITE_DESCRIPTION - Site description
• DCF_ITEM_PER_USER_LIMIT - Max Items allowed per user
• DCF_SITEMAP_LIMIT - Sitemap items limit
• DCF_RSS_LIMIT - RSS feed items limit
• DCF_RELATED_LIMIT - Number of related items displayed
• DCF_ITEM_PER_PAGE - Number of items per page
• DCF_LOGIN_TO_CONTACT - Hide contact information for unauthorized requests
• DCF_DISPLAY_EMPTY_GROUPS - Display groups without items in the groups list
• DCF_CURRENCY - Site currency (default: 'USD')

Current Version

The current version is 1.1.2 (March 2025).