Django Packages : Blogs

Blogs

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 articleijjhh
tag	tag support
multi sites	Allows a single installation to serve multiple blog.
RSS	Publishes legal RSS feeds
Multilingual	Full builtin multilingual support.
gallery	includes photo gallery
WYSIWYG Editor	Can posts be authored using a WYSIWYG editor?
Linkback ?	Has pingback/trackback ?
plugin	Supports third-party plugins.
Search	Can blog posts be searched?
Reactions	Does it support reactions from social media sites?
MetaWeblog API	Does the blog support the MetaWeblog AuhbbbPI ?
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?
Sitemap	Generates a sitemap.xml?
Import from Wordpress	Import a posts, categories, tags, comments, authors, etc.
Multiple Authors	Can blog posts be attributed to different authors with the ability to view posts for an individual author?
Date Views	Can blogs posts be viewed for a given month or year?
Categories	Can blog posts be assigned to descriptive categories? Eg to create a running series of tutorials. (not tagging)
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.
Custom User Model	All features and migrations work as expected with a custom user model in place.
Custom user display	When the application displays and/or links to a user (e.g. the Author) can that logic be customized without having to modify templates?
Abstract base models	Can the blog engine handle custom models, in both the admin, it's views and syndication feeds?
General Pages	Can the blog have general content pages (eg: about) attached to it as with Wordpress?
Comment spam filtering	List what methods such as CAPTCHA, honeypots, spam keyword filtering and more to block comment spam.
Login names can be private	Is it possible to prevent a user's login name (e.g. username) from being displayed publically without overriding templates.

Package	Mezzanine	syte	Zinnia	django-basic-apps	django-mingus	biblion	puput	djangocms-blog	wagtail-blog	django-blogango	Django-Articles	PyLucid CMS	radpress	Flother	Django-Blog-Python-Learning	django-blog-it	Mighty Lemon	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	django-news	django-yaba	django-marcus	wagtailnews	Nano apps	django-fluent-blogs	django-andablog	django-andablog	djeasy	django-sophie	django-stories	django-dress-blog	django-blogger	django-hermes	django_filtered_feed	dworkin	gnocchi-blog	simple-article	cmsplugin-blog	blognajd	Asgard Blog	django-diario	Django-Bootlog	django-pubtools	django-personal-blog	Byteflow	Django Tech Blog

Package	Mezzanine	syte	Zinnia	django-basic-apps	django-mingus	biblion	puput	djangocms-blog	wagtail-blog	django-blogango	Django-Articles	PyLucid CMS	radpress	Flother	Django-Blog-Python-Learning	django-blog-it	Mighty Lemon	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	django-news	django-yaba	django-marcus	wagtailnews	Nano apps	django-fluent-blogs	django-andablog	django-andablog	djeasy	django-sophie	django-stories	django-dress-blog	django-blogger	django-hermes	django_filtered_feed	dworkin	gnocchi-blog	simple-article	cmsplugin-blog	blognajd	Asgard Blog	django-diario	Django-Bootlog	django-pubtools	django-personal-blog	Byteflow	Django Tech Blog
Description	CMS framework for Django	A really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like twitter, github, dribbble, instagram, foursquare, tumblr, wordpress, ...	Simple yet powerful and really extendable application for managing a blog within your Django Web site.	Simple prebuilt applications.	a Django blog engine leveraging reusable apps for all its features.	a blog app for Django	A Django blog app implemented in Wagtail	django CMS blog application - Support for multilingual posts, placeholders, social network meta tags and configurable apphooks	A wordpress like blog app implemented in wagtail. Please open issues and merge requests only in gitlab.	A blogging app for Django	ATTENTION: I have disowned this project. See http://www.codekoala.com/blog/2013/django-projects/ The blogging engine I use on codekoala....	PyLucid is a Open Source web content management system written in Python using the Django Framework.	A simple blog engine written in Djan...	The Python- and Django-based code for the website running flother.com. For installation instructions, see the README.	Source Code of https://python.web.id (LTS) - Django 1.10, Python3, PostgreSQL	django blog - complete customization and ready to use with one click installer	A Django blog. Formerly Oebfare by brosner.	A blog for FeinCMS	News Feed Aggregation with Django.	Yet Another Blog Application	Bilingual blog on Django	News/blog plugin for Wagtail CMS	Does less! Loosely coupled mini-apps for django.	A blog engine with flexible block contents (based on django-fluent-contents)	A blog app that is only intended to be embedded within an existing Django site.	A blog app that is only intended to be embedded within an existing Django site.	Django simple quick setup	Just another Django-based blog engine, that runs on GAE.	An application for handling newspaper-like stories on a web site.	Django blogging app with stories, quotes, diary, comments and tags.	A simple blogging app for django 1.4	A light-weight blogging app for Django.	Feeds sans noise.	New wave blog + knowledge base engine	Blog modules from the Gnocchi project.	Provides a simple Article model for Django		Simple django blogging app, for Python 3	A simple blog application for Django.	Blog application for Django projects	A Django Blogging App based on Twitter Bootstrap The...	django-pubtools is a helper library for creating publishable django models.	a Django app for people, that want to have a simple personal blog.
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comment	Built in threaded comments with admin dashboard integration, as well as DISQUS integration.		(with moderation, can be threaded)				Disqus integration	available through third-party plugins (e.g. disqus)		, built-in, with comment moderation	Disqus or django.contrib.comments		only with disqus.					, disqus or django.contrib.comments		, with contrib.comments or Disqus	, built-in, with comment moderation		The blog app can be used with any other comments-app including nano.comments but does not itself include comments	django.contrib.comments, django-fluent-comments, or any other option via templates (e.g. Facebook/DISQUS)		Only features that make comment integration easier.		Yes, with disqus.		, with django-comments-xtd		No commenting system included.			built in comments with reCaptcha					django.contrib.comments support	Disqus			Threaded comments with email notification for replies. Automated registration for user after comment posting (no anonymous users!)
tag	Built in, with weighted tag cloud.						django-taggit	with django-taggit		, with django-taggit		, used django-tagging						, django.tagging		, with django-tagging			automatically uses django-taggit or django-tagging if installed, prefers djang-taggit	via django-taggit / django-taggit-autocomplete-modified		django-taggit				, with django-tagging					, with django-taggit		django-tagging		django-taggit	django-tagging support (optional)	. Can have a single Category			, yes, with django-tagging and autocomplete widget
multi sites																																								django.contrib.sites support
RSS			or Atom					or Atom													, for articles and comments		? Use django's own feed-system	and atom								RSS/Atom								RSS/Atom
Multilingual								native													, bilingual (English and Russian)																							, but can implemented by multi-sites
gallery								available by using django CMS plugins										, via content types			, but only on admin page			can be a plugin		admin-inlines				, with django-inline-media
WYSIWYG Editor	TinyMCE included, plus hooks for injecting your own widget class		WYMEditor, TinyMCE or markItUp				hallo.js	(default using CKEditor, but any django CMS plugin will do)					with zen mode for restructured text.					, TinyMCE			Now no, but plan to add a simple WYSIWYG with fullscreen mode and support for markdown		plain text or html, in admin	TinyMCE/CKEditor/RedactorJS/Yahoo/custom (via django-fluent-contents)		through markitup											WYMEditor or TinyMCE				ckeditor in admin.
Linkback ?
plugin			with django-cms's placeholders					, django CMS ones																via django-fluent-contents		custom markup renderers						Supports custom markup renders. Comes with support for markdown, rst and textile					using django-cms plugins
Search			with grammar				elastic search														, you can change the backend		not unless using google or similar counts	(consider using django-haystack)																	django-haystack			django-haystack
Reactions										, from backtype			disqus reactions								, now only Twitter, but you can always set social buttons (through templates) with addthis, sharethis, etc
MetaWeblog API			enriched
Pinging
Test coverage	70%		100%					96%																0%		90%					97%	100%					0%
Markdown			, reStructedText or Textile					Depending on plugin					restructuredtext					FeinCMS content type						+ RST/Markdown/Textile/custom (via django-fluent-contents)								Supports Markdown, RST, Textile and HTML/Plain Text. Also allows for custom renders to be used.			Using django.contrib.markup					reStructuredText, Markdown, Textile, raw text (so you can use HTML directly or another markup language
Sharing Hooks	Integrated with bit.ly - post to Facebook and Twitter		Bit.ly and Twitter					Full support for OpenGraph, Twitter cards, Schema.org																																	Post to Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter & Reddit.
Sitemap																					, separately for each language
Import from Wordpress	(also custom importers for Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, and RSS)		(also Blogger and RSS)																		, through django-command "wordpress_importer"
Multiple Authors																								(unless using a custom model)
Date Views
Categories													only tags.																												Posts can be listed by category by clicking it from category list.
AtomPub/APP Support
Custom User Model
Custom user display
Abstract base models			includes model mixins																					includes model mixins
General Pages			not a CMS				using Wagtail CMS	, through django CMS													, through flatpages			via other apps (flatpages / django-fluent-pages / custom)																	Has Latest Posts as Homepage and an About Page.
Comment spam filtering	Akismet		Akismet, TypePad, Mollom or custom					depending on comment plugin		, using akismet			disqus does not allow to spam =)								, CSRF token through javascript and Akismet		Not allowing anonymous users to comment helps	honeypots, akismet, auto close / auto moderate (via django-fluent-comments)						, django-comments-xtd requires comment confirmation by email					reCaptcha									, captcha
Login names can be private