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A comparison of Django blog packages which would have helped for this: http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2009/04/show-me-your-open-source-django-blog.html
Features currently being evaluated
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| comment | add a comment to a blog article |
| tag | tag support |
| multi sites | Allows a single installation to serve multiple blog. |
| Multilingual | Full builtin multilingual support. |
| RSS | Publishes legal RSS feeds |
| gallery | includes photo gallery |
| plugin | Supports third-party plugins. |
| Comment spam filtering | List what methods such as CAPTCHA, honeypots, spam keyword filtering and more to block comment spam. |
| Multiple Authors | Can blog posts be attributed to different authors with the ability to view posts for an individual author? |
| General Pages | Can the blog have general content pages (eg: about) attached to it as with Wordpress? |
| Categories | Can blog posts be assigned to descriptive categories? Eg to create a running series of tutorials. (not tagging) |
| Date Views | Can blogs posts be viewed for a given month or year? |
| WYSIWYG Editor | Can posts be authored using a WYSIWYG editor? |
| Search | Can blog posts be searched? |
| Linkback ? | Has pingback/trackback ? |
| Reactions | Does it support reactions from social media sites? |
| AtomPub/APP Support | Does the blog software support publishing via an AtomPub client? The server should allow for publishing, editing and deleting of entries through third party products like Windows Live Writer or Mars Edit. |
| MetaWeblog API | Does the blog support the MetaWeblog API ? |
| Pinging | Automatically pings search engines on new entries |
| Test coverage | The current test coverage of the package in percent. |
| Markdown | I want markdown, hate writing html now inside of entries |
| Sharing Hooks | Does the blog have built-in methods for sharing on social media sites, or hooks for services that provide this? |
| Package | Zinnia | Mezzanine | django-basic-apps | cmsplugin-blog | Django-Articles | biblion | PyLucid CMS | Elephantblog for FeinCMS | Mighty Lemon | Byteflow | django-blogango | django-mingus | django-yaba | dworkin | gnocchi-blog | Asgard Blog | django-news | django-sophie | Django Tech Blog | Flother | Nano apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description |
Simple yet powerful and really extendable application for managing a blog within your Django Web site. |
A content management platform built using the Django framework. | Simple prebuilt applications. |
The blogging engine I use on codekoala.com |
the eldarion.com blog app intended to be suitable for site-level company and project blogs |
PyLucid is a Open Source web content management system written in Python using the Django Framework. | A blog for FeinCMS |
A Django blog. Formerly Oebfare by brosner. | A blogging app for Django |
a Django blog engine leveraging reusable apps for all its features. | Yet Another Blog Application |
New wave blog + knowledge base engine |
Blog modules from the Gnocchi project. |
A simple blog application for Django. |
News Feed Aggregation with Django. |
Just another Django-based blog engine, that runs on GAE. |
The Python- and Django-based code for the website running flother.com. For installation instructions, see the README. |
Does less! Loosely coupled mini-apps for django. | |||
| Category | App | Framework | App | App | App | App | Framework | App | Framework | App | App | Framework | App | Framework | App | App | App | App | App | App | Framework |
| # Using This | 21 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Downloads | 7621 | 32289 | n/a | 5018 | 12420 | n/a | 8101 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 206 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2052 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 105 |
| Last updated | Feb. 3, 2012, 3:03 a.m. | Feb. 4, 2012, 10:04 a.m. | June 16, 2011, 1:04 p.m. | Sept. 27, 2011, 11:03 a.m. | Sept. 24, 2011, 11:12 p.m. | Jan. 1, 2012, 7:55 a.m. | Feb. 1, 2012, 8:56 a.m. | Sept. 21, 2011, 1:09 a.m. | April 20, 2009, 7:44 a.m. | Oct. 14, 2011, 5:40 a.m. | Jan. 29, 2012, 5:10 p.m. | Nov. 3, 2009, 11:29 a.m. | Dec. 2, 2011, 7:02 a.m. | Aug. 29, 2011, 8:41 a.m. | Aug. 9, 2011, 10:52 a.m. | Oct. 16, 2011, 5:32 p.m. | Sept. 17, 2010, 2:12 a.m. | March 1, 2011, 4:42 p.m. | Dec. 25, 2011, 11:46 a.m. | ||
| Version | 0.9 | 0.12.5 | n/a | 1.1.1 | 2.4.1 | 0.1.0-dev1 | 0.10.2.0106 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.2.5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.4 |
| Repo | Github | Github | Github | Github | Bitbucket | Github | Github | Github | Github | Other | Github | Github | Github | Github | Bitbucket | Github | Github | Github | Other | Github | Github |
| Commits | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Repo Watchers | 343 | 303 | 558 | 31 | 80 | 139 | 37 | 1 | 61 | n/a | 40 | 395 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 41 | 19 | n/a | 49 | 2 |
| Repo Forks | 100 | 91 | 114 | 18 | 17 | 30 | 5 | n/a | 16 | n/a | 7 | 68 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | n/a | 7 | 1 |
| Participants | Fantomas42 transifex igalarzab alyoung shagi jtrain esauro jasondavies gpciceri macropin more... | stephenmcd invalid-email-address ajfisher kenbolton jcartmell tvon ei-grad sebasmagri tow onelson more... | nathanborror howiworkdaily montylounge feuervogel myles toastdriven justquick ericholscher ipmb traviscline more... | fivethreeo transifex invalid-email-address mitar raphaa gleb-chipiga ojii atkinson hedberg krisb78 more... | codekoala | brosner paltman issackelly lukeman jtauber | jedie ckolumbus | sbaechler matthiask schmidsi ArturoB j4mie vkuzma | mightylemon brosner justinlilly leah smcq daonb defunkt | Balu-Varanasi akshar-raaj atmb4u bitaVersion dheerosaur plaban123 saikiran shabda superxor theju more... | montylounge acdha ktonon jezdez howiworkdaily lukeman alup novito | f4nt | webriders kottenator olexiystrashko falker | funkybob | myles avolkov | coleifer | DaNmarner | flother | kaleissin | ||
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| Package | Zinnia | Mezzanine | django-basic-apps | cmsplugin-blog | Django-Articles | biblion | PyLucid CMS | Elephantblog for FeinCMS | Mighty Lemon | Byteflow | django-blogango | django-mingus | django-yaba | dworkin | gnocchi-blog | Asgard Blog | django-news | django-sophie | Django Tech Blog | Flother | Nano apps |
| comment |  | Built in threaded comments with admin dashboard integration, as well as DISQUS integration. | Disqus or django.contrib.comments | | , disqus or django.contrib.comments | Threaded comments with email notification for replies. Automated registration for user after comment posting (no anonymous users!) | , built-in, with comment moderation | | , with contrib.comments or Disqus |
built in comments with reCaptcha | | Yes, with disqus. | |  The blog app can be used with any other comments-app including nano.comments but does not itself include comments | |||||||
| tag | , with django-tagging | Built in, with weighted tag cloud. | django-tagging | , used django-tagging | , django.tagging | , yes, with django-tagging and autocomplete widget | , with django-taggit | , with django-tagging | | , with django-taggit | django-taggit | | automatically uses django-taggit or django-tagging if installed, prefers djang-taggit | ||||||||
| multi sites | | | | | | | | | |||||||||||||
| Multilingual | | | | , but can implemented by multi-sites | | ||||||||||||||||
| RSS | or Atom | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||||||
| gallery | , via content types | | | | | ||||||||||||||||
| plugin | with django-cms's placeholders | | using django-cms plugins | | | ||||||||||||||||
| Comment spam filtering | Akismet, TypePad, Mollom or custom | | , captcha | , using akismet |
reCaptcha | | |||||||||||||||
| Multiple Authors | | | | | | | | | |||||||||||||
| General Pages | | | | | |||||||||||||||||
| Categories | | | | | | | |||||||||||||||
| Date Views | | | | | | | | | |||||||||||||
| WYSIWYG Editor | WYMEditor, TinyMCE or markItUp | TinyMCE included, plus hooks for injecting your own widget class | WYMEditor or TinyMCE | | , TinyMCE | | plain text or html, in admin | ||||||||||||||
| Search | with grammar | | | django-haystack | not unless using google or similar counts | ||||||||||||||||
| Linkback ? | | | | | |||||||||||||||||
| Reactions | , from backtype | | |||||||||||||||||||
| AtomPub/APP Support | | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MetaWeblog API | enriched | | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pinging | | | | ||||||||||||||||||
| Test coverage | 96% | 70% | 0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Markdown | , reStructedText or Textile | |
Using django.contrib.markup | | |||||||||||||||||
| Sharing Hooks | Bit.ly and Twitter | Integrated with bit.ly - post to Facebook and Twitter | | | |||||||||||||||||
| Package | Zinnia | Mezzanine | django-basic-apps | cmsplugin-blog | Django-Articles | biblion | PyLucid CMS | Elephantblog for FeinCMS | Mighty Lemon | Byteflow | django-blogango | django-mingus | django-yaba | dworkin | gnocchi-blog | Asgard Blog | django-news | django-sophie | Django Tech Blog | Flother | Nano apps |