'content' cannot be specified for Article model form as it is a non-editable field

Question

I am currently upgrading a Django 1.9 site to use Django 1.10. I would love to upgrade to Django 1.11, but some of the packages the site uses do not yet support it.

Either way, I am getting the following error when I go to localhost:8000

FieldError at /

'content' cannot be specified for Article model form as it is a non-editable field

Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/ Django Version: 1.10.9 Exception Type: FieldError Exception Value:

'content' cannot be specified for Article model form as it is a non-editable field

Exception Location: /xxx-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/forms/models.py in fields_for_model, line 143

The site is running Django CMS 3.4.4, as well as other Aldryn Plugins, all of which are up-to-date using pip install.

The code in question is this:

    if (fields is not None and f.name in fields and
            (exclude is None or f.name not in exclude)):
        raise FieldError(
            "'%s' cannot be specified for %s model form as it is a non-editable field" % (
                f.name, model.__name__)
        )
    continue

I would love some tips or directions on how I could troubleshoot this.

Answer 1

I was able to overcome the bug by installing the latest master version of aldryn-newsblog with: pip install git+https://github.com/aldryn/aldryn-newsblog.git@master

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