📝 Flask Blog Website

A production-ready Flask blog application with authentication, rich-text editing, and PostgreSQL support, deployed on Render using Gunicorn and environment-based configuration.

🚀 Features

🔐 User Authentication | 📝 Create & Edit Blogs | 🖋️ CKEditor
👤 Gravatar Avatars | 🗄️ PostgreSQL (Prod) | 🧪 SQLite (Local)
🌐 Bootstrap UI | 🔑 Environment Variables | ⚙️ Gunicorn Deployment

🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend: Python, Flask
Database: PostgreSQL / SQLite
ORM: SQLAlchemy
Auth: Flask-Login
Forms: Flask-WTF
Frontend: Bootstrap, Jinja2
Deployment: Render | Server: Gunicorn

📁 Structure

main.py | requirements.txt | runtime.txt | Procfile | templates/ | static/ | instance/

⚙️ Environment Variables (.env – not committed)

SECRET_KEY=secret-key
DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///yourdatabase.db
EMAIL_KEY=email
PASSWORD_KEY=password

🧪 Local Setup

git clone https://github.com/Fedrick007/Blog-Website-using-Flask-Python.git
cd your-repo-name
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py
Visit: http://127.0.0.1:5000

🌍 Render Deployment

Start Command: gunicorn main:app
Runtime: python-3.11.8
Add DATABASE_URL from Render PostgreSQL service

🔒 Security

Environment-based secrets | .env in .gitignore | No hardcoded credentials

🧠 Learnings

Flask production setup, PostgreSQL integration, Render deployment, Gunicorn debugging

📌 Future

Admin panel | Comments | Image uploads | Pagination | Docker

👨‍💻 Author

Fedrick Samuel W — Software Developer | Flask | Backend

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