Chapter 1: Building a Blog Application

• Installing Django
• Creating an isolated Python environment
• Installing Django with pip
• Creating your first project
• Running the development server
• Project settings
• Projects and applications
• Creating an application
• Designing the blog data schema
• Activating the application
• Creating and applying migrations
• Creating an administration site for models
• Creating a superuser
• The Django administration site
• Adding models to the administration site
• Customizing the way that models are displayed
• Working with QuerySets and managers
• Creating objects
• Updating objects
• Retrieving objects
• Using the filter() method
• Using exclude()
• Using order_by()
• Deleting objects
• When QuerySets are evaluated
• Creating model managers
• Building list and detail views
• Creating list and detail views
• Adding URL patterns for your views
• Canonical URLs for models
• Creating templates for your views
• Adding pagination
• Using class-based views
• Summary

Chapter 2: Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features

• Sharing posts by email
• Creating forms with Django
• Handling forms in views
• Sending emails with Django
• Rendering forms in templates
• Creating a comment system
• Building a model
• Creating forms from models
• Handling ModelForms in views
• Adding comments to the post detail template
• Adding the tagging functionality
• Retrieving posts by similarity
• Summary

Chapter 3: Extending Your Blog Application

• Creating custom template tags and filters
• Custom template tags
• Custom template filters
• Adding a sitemap to your site
• Creating feeds for your blog posts
• Adding full-text search to your blog
• Installing PostgreSQL
• Simple search lookups
• Searching against multiple fields
• Building a search view
• Stemming and ranking results
• Weighting queries
• Searching with trigram similarity
• Other full-text search engines
• Summary

Chapter 4: Building an Online Shop

• Creating an online shop project
• Creating product catalog models
• Registering catalog models on the administration site
• Building catalog views
• Creating catalog templates
• Building a shopping cart
• Using Django sessions
• Session settings
• Session expiration
• Storing shopping carts in sessions
• Creating shopping cart views
• Adding items to the cart
• Building a template to display the cart
• Adding products to the cart
• Updating product quantities in the cart
• Creating a context processor for the current cart
• Context processors
• Setting the cart into the request context
• Registering customer orders
• Creating order models
• Including order models in the administration site
• Creating customer orders
• Launching asynchronous tasks with Celery
• Installing Celery
• Installing RabbitMQ
• Adding Celery to your project 2
• Adding asynchronous tasks to your application
• Monitoring Celery

Chapter 5: Managing Payments and Orders

• Integrating a payment gateway
• Creating a Braintree sandbox account
• Installing the Braintree Python module
• Integrating the payment gateway
• Integrating Braintree using Hosted Fields
• Testing payments
• Exporting orders to CSV files
• Adding custom actions to the administration site
• Extending the administration site with custom views
• Generating PDF invoices dynamically
• Installing WeasyPrint
• Creating a PDF template
• Rendering PDF files
• Sending PDF files by email