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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 | Description | Category | Downloads | Last Updated | Version | Repo | Commits | Repo watchers | Forks | Participants | License | comment | tag | multi sites | Multilingual | RSS | gallery | plugin | Comment spam filtering | Multiple Authors | General Pages | Categories | Date Views | WYSIWYG Editor | Search | Linkback ? | Reactions | AtomPub/APP Support | MetaWeblog API | Pinging | Test coverage | Markdown | Sharing Hooks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zinnia | Simple yet powerful and really extendable application for managing a blog within your Django Web site. | App | 10777 | Feb. 23, 2012, 2:09 a.m. | 0.10.1 | Github | 422 | 128 | Fantomas42 transifex igalarzab bianchimro alyoung shagi jtrain esauro nl0 jasondavies more... | BSD License |  | , with django-tagging | | or Atom | with django-cms's placeholders | Akismet, TypePad, Mollom or custom | | | | WYMEditor, TinyMCE or markItUp | with grammar | | enriched | | 96% | , reStructedText or Textile | Bit.ly and Twitter | ||||||
| Mezzanine | A content management platform built using the Django framework. | Framework | 38152 | March 7, 2012, 2:11 p.m. | 1.0.2 | Github | 401 | 107 | stephenmcd invalid-email-address ajfisher kenbolton jcartmell tvon ei-grad sebasmagri joshcartme tourist more... | BSD | Built in threaded comments with admin dashboard integration, as well as DISQUS integration. | Built in, with weighted tag cloud. | | | | | | Akismet | | | | | TinyMCE included, plus hooks for injecting your own widget class | | 70% | | Integrated with bit.ly - post to Facebook and Twitter | ||||||
| cmsplugin-blog | App | 6378 | Sept. 27, 2011, 11:03 a.m. | 1.1.1 | Github | 37 | 22 | fivethreeo transifex invalid-email-address mitar raphaa gleb-chipiga ojii atkinson krisb78 hedberg more... | BSD License | django-tagging | | | using django-cms plugins | WYMEditor or TinyMCE | 0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| django-basic-apps | Simple prebuilt applications. | App | 0 | April 10, 2012, 12:02 a.m. | Github | 602 | 122 | nathanborror howiworkdaily montylounge feuervogel myles toastdriven traviscline ericholscher ipmb mcroydon more... | UNKNOWN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Django-Articles | The blogging engine I use on codekoala.com | App | 15225 | Sept. 24, 2011, 11:12 p.m. | 2.4.1 | Bitbucket | 92 | 22 | codekoala | BSD | Disqus or django.contrib.comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| biblion | the eldarion.com blog app intended to be suitable for site-level company and project blogs | App | 0 | Jan. 1, 2012, 7:55 a.m. | 0.1.0-dev1 | Github | 158 | 36 | brosner paltman issackelly jtauber lukeman | BSD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PyLucid CMS | PyLucid is a Open Source web content management system written in Python using the Django Framework. | Framework | 8646 | Feb. 1, 2012, 8:56 a.m. | 0.10.2.0106 | Github | 41 | 5 | jedie ckolumbus | GNU General Public License (GPL) | | , used django-tagging | | | | | | | | ||||||||||||||
| Elephantblog for FeinCMS | A blog for FeinCMS | App | 0 | Sept. 21, 2011, 1:09 a.m. | Github | 1 | 0 | sbaechler matthiask schmidsi ArturoB j4mie vkuzma | UNKNOWN | , disqus or django.contrib.comments | , django.tagging | | | , via content types | | | | | , TinyMCE | | |||||||||||||
| Mighty Lemon | A Django blog. Formerly Oebfare by brosner. | Framework | 0 | April 20, 2009, 7:44 a.m. | Github | 61 | 16 | mightylemon brosner justinlilly leah smcq daonb defunkt | UNKNOWN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Byteflow | App | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | Threaded comments with email notification for replies. Automated registration for user after comment posting (no anonymous users!) | , yes, with django-tagging and autocomplete widget | |  , but can implemented by multi-sites | | , captcha | | | | | django-haystack | | ||||||||||||||
| django-blogango | A blogging app for Django | App | 282 | Feb. 14, 2012, 10:01 p.m. | 0.3 | Github | 47 | 9 | Balu-Varanasi akshar-raaj arjunc77 atmb4u bhaskar8088 bitaVersion dheerosaur saikiran shabda theju more... | Custom | , built-in, with comment moderation | , with django-taggit | | | , using akismet | | | | | | , from backtype | ||||||||||||
| django-diario | Weblog framework for Django. | Framework | 638 | None | 0.3-kamalmaz | Bitbucket | 17 | 3 | semente | Custom |
django.contrib.comments support |
django-tagging support (optional) |
django.contrib.sites support |
RSS/Atom | | | |
reStructuredText, Markdown, Textile, raw text (so you can use HTML directly or another markup language | |||||||||||||||
| django-mingus | a Django blog engine leveraging reusable apps for all its features. | Framework | 0 | Jan. 29, 2012, 5:10 p.m. | Github | 401 | 70 | montylounge acdha ktonon jezdez howiworkdaily lukeman alup novito | UNKNOWN | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| django-yaba | Yet Another Blog Application | App | 0 | Nov. 3, 2009, 11:29 a.m. | Github | 21 | 6 | f4nt | UNKNOWN | , with contrib.comments or Disqus | , with django-tagging | | | ||||||||||||||||||||
| dworkin | New wave blog + knowledge base engine | Framework | 0 | Dec. 2, 2011, 7:02 a.m. | Github | 5 | 1 | webriders kottenator olexiystrashko falker | UNKNOWN | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||
| gnocchi-blog | Blog modules from the Gnocchi project. | App | 0 | Feb. 23, 2012, 1:15 p.m. | Bitbucket | 4 | 1 | funkybob | UNKNOWN |
built in comments with reCaptcha | , with django-taggit | |
reCaptcha | | |
Using django.contrib.markup | |||||||||||||||||
| Asgard Blog | A simple blog application for Django. | App | 0 | Aug. 9, 2011, 10:52 a.m. | Github | 3 | 2 | myles avolkov | UNKNOWN | | django-taggit | | | ||||||||||||||||||||
| django-news | News Feed Aggregation with Django. | App | 2052 | Oct. 16, 2011, 5:32 p.m. | 0.2.5 | Github | 41 | 7 | coleifer | MIT License | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| django-sophie | Just another Django-based blog engine, that runs on GAE. | App | 0 | Sept. 17, 2010, 2:12 a.m. | Github | 19 | 3 | DaNmarner | UNKNOWN | Yes, with disqus. | | | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Django Tech Blog | App | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flother | The Python- and Django-based code for the website running flother.com. For installation instructions, see the README. | App | 0 | March 1, 2011, 4:42 p.m. | Github | 52 | 8 | flother | UNKNOWN | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nano apps | Does less! Loosely coupled mini-apps for django. | Framework | 134 | Dec. 25, 2011, 11:46 a.m. | 0.4 | Github | 4 | 1 | kaleissin | MIT License | The blog app can be used with any other comments-app including nano.comments but does not itself include comments | automatically uses django-taggit or django-tagging if installed, prefers djang-taggit | | | | | | | | | | plain text or html, in admin | not unless using google or similar counts | | | | | | | | |||
| Package | Description | Category | Downloads | Last Updated | Version | Repo | Commits | Repo watchers | Forks | Participants | License | comment | tag | multi sites | Multilingual | RSS | gallery | plugin | Comment spam filtering | Multiple Authors | General Pages | Categories | Date Views | WYSIWYG Editor | Search | Linkback ? | Reactions | AtomPub/APP Support | MetaWeblog API | Pinging | Test coverage | Markdown | Sharing Hooks |