How to Uninstall DjangoCMS Blog i.e. News

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☑ The djangocms-blog package and all its dependencies are installed in Core CMS by default.⁰

0. Confirm djangocms_blog app is installed and active.

   1. Open CMS Pages admin UI. Blog/News page has 🧩. icon?﹡
   2. Open Blog/News page while logged in. Admin toolbar has "Blog" link?
   3. Open CMS Administation UI. Section "DJANGO CMS BLOG" exists?
   
   

   ﹡ In same column where Home page has 🏠. icon.

1. Enter CMS container.

   docker exec core_cms /bin/bash

2. (Optional) Confirm "apphooks" are in place:

   python3 manage.py cms list apphooks

   BlogApp[instance: ...] (draft/published)

3. Uninstall relevant "apphooks":

   python3 manage.py cms uninstall apphooks BlogApp --noinput"

   2 'BlogApp' apphooks uninstalled

   ⚠ If settings has BLOG_AUTO_SETUP = True, then do not … list apphooks again or else "apphooks" will be recreated.

4. (Optional) Confirm "apphooks" are missing.

   python3 manage.py cms uninstall apphooks BlogApp --noinput"

   no 'BlogApp' apphooks found

   0. Restart server.²
   1. Open CMS Pages admin UI. Blog/News page has no 🧩. icon.﹡
   2. Open Blog/News page while logged in. Admin toolbar has no "Blog" link.
   
   

   ﹡ In same column where Home page has 🏠. icon.

5. Reverse migrations for djangocms_blog app.¹

   python3 manage.py migrate djangocms_blog zero

   Operations to perform:
     Unapply all migrations: djangocms_blog
   Running migrations:
     Rendering model states... DONE
     ...
     Unapplying djangocms_blog.0003_auto_20141201_2252... OK
     Unapplying djangocms_blog.0002_post_sites... OK
     Unapplying djangocms_blog.0001_initial... OK

6. Delete the Blog/News page.

   ⚠ If you skip this step, then re-install blog, you might have an error about a missing BlogConfig.

7. Remove "NEWS / BLOG" settings and autotaggit urls. (Restart server.)﹡

   ﹡ Just editting settings_custom.py and urls_custom.py might be adequate to restart server.²

   ⚠ If settings has BLOG_AUTO_SETUP = True, then do not do anything to restart server or else "apphooks" will be recreated.

8. Confirm djangocms_blog app is not installed nor active.

   1. Open CMS Pages admin UI. Blog/News page has no 🧩. icon.﹡
   2. Open Blog/News page while logged in. Admin toolbar has no "Blog" link.
   3. Open CMS Administation UI. Section "DJANGO CMS BLOG" absent.

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⁰ After FP-1487, the package djangocms_blog might not be installed by default.

¹ Reverse migrations before removing djangocms_blog from INSTALLED_APPS (which should happen as a result of removing "NEWS / BLOG" settings) or else migrations can not be reversed (because djangocms_blog will not exist in the project to provide the migrations to be reversed).

² See How to Restart the CMS Server.