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Added an 'All Categories' section to the sidebar as well as enabled spell checking on ckeditor, a WYSIWYF (What you see is what you get) editor.
Check out this video about how to enable it in a Django project!
After scanning through a few Github repos, I came across SCAYT. It's a plugin for django-ckeditor. The installation directions instruct you to clone a repo into the plugins folder, but when I checked that folder, I noticed SCAYT was already there!
Turns out that SCAYT is an plugin that's included by default when you pip install django-ckeditor. I tried finding Youtube videos or guides on how to get it working, but nothing was working for me!
I decided to visit the git repo of django-ckeditor itself and was blessed with great doc on how to do it! All you need do is add CKEDITOR_CONFIGS to the settings.py file.
After adding this code to my django settings file, I got all this new functionality.
CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
'default': {'toolbar': 'full'},
}Before
After
I personally think there are way too many buttons going on here, but at this point in the website, I am the only one making posts, so I am going to leave it for now. Plus, it's kind of fun to have so much rich text functionality.
The second problem I ran into is that SCAYT is not enabled by default. You need to click on it and choose 'enable’ start spell checking my posts.
Turns out, there is an option you can set in ckeditor's config.js file which is located in /static/ckeditor/ckeditor/config.js
config.scayt_autoStartup = true;
After adding this property to that file, it now enables on-load!