"Featuring" content in a Django website

Question

I'm working on a new Django project, and the client wants to "feature" content on the homepage and a few other sections of the website. Content in this case could be a blog post, an event, a news story, etc. Each item would have a "start featuring" datetime and an "stop featuring" datetime.

I've done this a few different ways in the past, but wonder if anybody has any great methods of archiving this.

Answer 1

Have you looked at the contenttypes framework? You could set up a FeaturedItem model, with start and end datetimes, and a generic foreign key. This allows the relationship to be with any model.

If you heavily feature objects from particular models, look at the section on reverse generic relations.

Answer 2

I'm trying something similar, using the contenttypes framework but the problem comes when displaying the relationship in the admin area. I've been trying to hack this together to simply show a checkbox with "Featured?" next to it.

class FeaturedContent(models.Model):
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')

I'm not yet clear on how to implement the checkbox.