Askbot supports a number of optional modules, enabling certain features, not available in askbot by default.
Want to share videos in askbot posts? It is possible, but you will have to install a forked version of markdown2 module, here is how:
pip uninstall markdown2
pip install -e git+git://github.com/andryuha/python-markdown2.git#egg=markdown2
Also, for this to work you’ll need to have Pip and Git installed on your system.
Finally, please go to your forum live settings –> “Settings for askbot data entry and display” and check “Enable embedding video”.
Limitation: at the moment only YouTube and Veoh are supported.
To enable authentication via LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, see more info elsewhere) , first install python-ldap package:
pip install python-ldap
After that, add configuration parameters in live settings, section “Keys to connect the site with external services ...” (url /settings/EXTERNAL_KEYS, relative to the domain name)
Note
Location of these parameters is likely to change in the future. When that happens, an update notice will appear in the documentation.
The parameters are:
To enable uploadable avatars (in addition to gravatars), please install development version of application django-avatar, with the following command:
pip install -e git+git://github.com/ericflo/django-avatar.git#egg=django-avatar
Then add avatar to the list of INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file and run (to install database table used by the avatar app):
python manage.py syncdb
Note
Version of the avatar application available at pypi may not be up to date, so please take the development version from the github repository