Added origin text field to hold link text displayed to user.

news/migrations/0002_newsitem_origin_text_and_more.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Generated by Django 5.2.8 on 2025-11-10 19:55
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ("news", "0001_initial"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name="newsitem",
+            name="origin_text",
+            field=models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=200, null=True),
+        ),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name="newsitem",
+            name="origin_times_followed",
+            field=models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0),
+        ),
+    ]

news/models.py

@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ class NewsItem(models.Model):
         Category, on_delete=models.PROTECT, related_name="news_items"
     )
     body = MarkdownxField()
+    origin_text = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True, null=True)
     origin_link = models.URLField(blank=True, null=True)
-    origin_times_followed = models.PositiveIntegerField()
+    origin_times_followed = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)
     header_img = models.ImageField(blank=True, null=True)
     tags = TagField(
         force_lowercase=True,