Django Classifieds Marketplace — Full Source Code Template

# 🛒 Django Classifieds Marketplace Template  

A complete Django-based classifieds marketplace starter project.  

Perfect for building your own listing platform, local classifieds, or multi-category marketplace.

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## ⭐ Features

✔ User registration, login, logout, password reset  

✔ User dashboard & profile management  

✔ Create, edit & delete listings  

✔ Categories & subcategories  

✔ Location fields + location-based filtering  

✔ Search + basic filtering  

✔ Image upload for ads  

✔ Favourites / wishlist  

✔ SEO-friendly URLs  

✔ Responsive Bootstrap 5 front-end  

✔ Clean Django Admin panel  

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## 🛠 Tech Stack

- Python 3  

- Django 4+  

- SQLite (default) — supports PostgreSQL / MySQL  

- Bootstrap 5  

- HTML, CSS, JavaScript  

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## 📦 Project Structure

board_project/ # Django settings
board/ # Main application
board/templates/ # HTML templates
board/static/board/ # CSS, JS, images
fixtures/ # Optional sample data
manage.py
requirements.txt
installation_guide.pdf
README.md

## 🚀 Installation

### 1. Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate # macOS / Linux

venv\Scripts\activate # Windows

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 2. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

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 3. Apply database migrations

python manage.py migrate

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 4. (Optional) Load demo categories & listings

python manage.py loaddata fixtures/*.json

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 5. Create admin user

python manage.py createsuperuser

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 6. Run development server

python manage.py runserver

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 7. Open in browser

- Frontend → http://127.0.0.1:8000/  

- Admin → http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

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🧩 Customization

You can easily customize:

- Templates (`board/templates/`)

- Static files (`board/static/board/`)

- Categories & listings via Django Admin

- Database engine in `settings.py`

- Add payment systems, messaging, premium ads, advanced filters, etc.

This project is designed to be **extendable & developer-friendly**.

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## 📄 Included Files

- Full Django source code  

- Bootstrap 5 responsive UI  

- Demo categories + demo listings  

- Installation Guide (PDF)  

- requirements.txt  

- Project documentation (README)  

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## 📌 Notes

- This is a **starter template**, not a hosted SaaS  

- Basic Django knowledge is recommended  

- Code is clean, extendable, well-structured  

Enjoy building your marketplace! 🚀