Django Packages : Blogs

Blogs

A comparison of Django blog packages.

Features currently being evaluated

Feature	Description
multi sites	Allows a single installation to serve multiple blog.
Multilingual	Full builtin multilingual support.
gallery	includes photo gallery
Comments
RSS	Publishes legal RSS feeds
tag	tag support
Search	Can blog posts be searched?
Linkback ?	Has pingback/trackback ?
plugin	Supports third-party plugins.
Reactions	Does it support reactions from social media sites?
MetaWeblog API	Does the blog support the MetaWeblog API ?
Markdown	I want markdown, hate writing html now inside of entries
Pinging	Automatically pings search engines on new entries
Test coverage	The current test coverage of the package in percent.
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.
General Pages	Can the blog have general content pages (eg: about) attached to it as with Wordpress?
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?
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.
Comment spam filtering	List what methods such as CAPTCHA, honeypots, spam keyword filtering and more to block comment spam.
WYSIWYG Editor	Can posts be authored using a WYSIWYG editor?

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Package	Wagtail CMS	Mezzanine	puput	django-blog-it	Django Bona Blog	djangocms-blog	PyLucid CMS	wagtailnews	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	wagtail-blog	django-fluent-blogs	django-marcus	django-andablog	django-andablog	djeasy	w3blog	django-hermes	django-cms-articles

Package	Wagtail CMS	Mezzanine	puput	django-blog-it	Django Bona Blog	djangocms-blog	PyLucid CMS	wagtailnews	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	wagtail-blog	django-fluent-blogs	django-marcus	django-andablog	django-andablog	djeasy	w3blog	django-hermes	django-cms-articles
Description	A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience	CMS framework for Django	A Django blog app implemented in Wagtail	django blog - complete customization and ready to use with one click installer	A Django blog app with features of a standard blogging platfo...	django CMS blog application - Support for multilingual posts, placeholders, social network meta tags and configurable apphooks	PyLucid is ready to use Django-CMS setup	News/blog plugin for Wagtail CMS	A blog for FeinCMS	A wordpress like blog app implemented in wagtail. Please open issues and merge requests only in gitlab.	A blog engine with flexible block contents (based on django-fluent-contents)	Bilingual blog on Django	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 Project Deploy Easier to in Debian Distribution!	A simple blog engine for Django with multilingual capabilities	A light-weight blogging app for Django.	the best django CMS application for managing articles
Category	Framework	Framework	App	App	App	App	Framework	App	App	App	App	App	App	App	Other	App	App	App
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Python 3?
Development Status	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown	Unknown	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Pre-Alpha	Unknown	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Alpha	Unknown	Production/Stable	Production/Stable
Last updated	June 27, 2022, 10:29 a.m.	May 16, 2022, 12:24 p.m.	Nov. 10, 2021, 5:33 a.m.	Feb. 2, 2021, 7:02 a.m.	July 13, 2021, 10:08 p.m.	Dec. 21, 2020, 6:01 a.m.	Aug. 4, 2021, 3:22 a.m.	July 8, 2021, 6:29 p.m.	Jan. 7, 2022, 12:18 p.m.	Feb. 20, 2020, 12:50 p.m.	Jan. 9, 2022, 10:08 a.m.	June 10, 2021, 1:41 p.m.	April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.	April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.	May 29, 2020, 5:48 a.m.	Oct. 5, 2020, 1:34 p.m.	April 20, 2021, 12:39 p.m.	April 17, 2020, 2:16 p.m.
Version	3.0.1	6.0.0	1.1.3	0.3.1	1.1.4	1.2.3	3.2.0	2.7.2	22.0.0	2.3.5	3.0.2	1.0.5	3.2.0	3.2.0	2.0.1	0.5.2	1.4.2	1.6.1
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Commits
Stars	12,261	4,447	508	217	106	316	72	63	42	252	35	28	28	28	24	5	9	8
Repo Forks	2,660	1,561	139	94	50	181	20	19	38	70	19	11	8	8	5	3	9	3
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multi sites
Multilingual						native						, bilingual (English and Russian)
gallery						available by using django CMS plugins			, via content types		can be a plugin	, but only on admin page		admin-inlines				available by using django CMS plugins
Comments		Built in threaded comments with admin dashboard integration, as well as DISQUS integration.	Disqus integration			available through third-party plugins (e.g. disqus)			, disqus or django.contrib.comments		django.contrib.comments, django-fluent-comments, or any other option via templates (e.g. Facebook/DISQUS)	, built-in, with comment moderation		Only features that make comment integration easier.			No commenting system included.
RSS						or Atom					and atom	, for articles and comments					RSS/Atom
tag		Built in, with weighted tag cloud.	django-taggit			with django-taggit	, used django-tagging		, django.tagging		via django-taggit / django-taggit-autocomplete-modified			django-taggit
Search			elastic search								(consider using django-haystack)	, you can change the backend						django-haystack
Linkback ?
plugin						, django CMS ones					via django-fluent-contents			custom markup renderers			Supports custom markup renders. Comes with support for markdown, rst and textile	django CMS plugins
Reactions												, now only Twitter, but you can always set social buttons (through templates) with addthis, sharethis, etc
MetaWeblog API
Markdown						Depending on plugin			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.
Pinging
Test coverage		70%				96%					0%			90%			100%
Sharing Hooks		Integrated with bit.ly - post to Facebook and Twitter				Full support for OpenGraph, Twitter cards, Schema.org
Sitemap												, separately for each language
Import from Wordpress		(also custom importers for Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, and RSS)										, through django-command "wordpress_importer"						pages articles galleries
Multiple Authors											(unless using a custom model)
Date Views
Categories																		tree structure of categories attached to django CMS pages
AtomPub/APP Support
Custom User Model
General Pages			using Wagtail CMS			, through django CMS					via other apps (flatpages / django-fluent-pages / custom)	, through flatpages
Custom user display
Abstract base models											includes model mixins
Login names can be private
Comment spam filtering		Akismet				depending on comment plugin					honeypots, akismet, auto close / auto moderate (via django-fluent-comments)	, CSRF token through javascript and Akismet
WYSIWYG Editor		TinyMCE included, plus hooks for injecting your own widget class	hallo.js			(default using CKEditor, but any django CMS plugin will do)			, TinyMCE		TinyMCE/CKEditor/RedactorJS/Yahoo/custom (via django-fluent-contents)	Now no, but plan to add a simple WYSIWYG with fullscreen mode and support for markdown		through markitup				available by using django CMS plugins