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	djeasy	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	PyLucid CMS	django-fluent-blogs	wagtailnews	django-marcus	w3blog	django-hermes	FaraPy CMS	django-cms-articles	django-rstblog	djangocms-blog	Django Tech Blog	django-andablog	Byteflow	django-andablog

Package	Wagtail CMS	Mezzanine	puput	django-blog-it	Django Bona Blog	djeasy	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	PyLucid CMS	django-fluent-blogs	wagtailnews	django-marcus	w3blog	django-hermes	FaraPy CMS	django-cms-articles	django-rstblog	djangocms-blog	Django Tech Blog	django-andablog	Byteflow	django-andablog
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 Project Deploy Easier to in Debian Distribution!	A blog for FeinCMS	PyLucid is ready to use Django-CMS setup	A blog engine with flexible block contents (based on django-fluent-contents)	News/blog plugin for Wagtail CMS	Bilingual blog on Django	A simple blog engine for Django with multilingual capabilities	A light-weight blogging app for Django.	Python CMS written by Django	the best django CMS application for managing articles	a Django app to manage a blog: https://pypi.org/project/django-rstblog/	django CMS blog application - Support for multilingual posts, placeholders, social network meta tags and configurable apphooks		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.
Category	Framework	Framework	App	App	App	Other	App	Framework	App	App	App	App	App	Project	App	App	App	App	App	App	App
# Using This	97	130	9	3	0	1	4	4	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	8	1	1	3	1
Python 3?
Development Status	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown	Unknown	Production/Stable	Alpha	Production/Stable	Pre-Alpha	Production/Stable	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Production/Stable	Unknown	Production/Stable	Beta	Production/Stable	n/a	Production/Stable	n/a	Production/Stable
Last updated	Dec. 5, 2022, 5:31 a.m.	Nov. 2, 2022, 4:25 a.m.	Nov. 10, 2021, 5:33 a.m.	Feb. 2, 2021, 7:02 a.m.	July 13, 2021, 10:08 p.m.	Nov. 6, 2022, 3:11 p.m.	Jan. 7, 2022, 12:18 p.m.	Aug. 4, 2021, 3:22 a.m.	Jan. 9, 2022, 10:08 a.m.	July 8, 2021, 6:29 p.m.	June 10, 2021, 1:41 p.m.	Oct. 5, 2020, 1:34 p.m.	April 20, 2021, 12:39 p.m.	June 6, 2021, 2:17 a.m.	April 17, 2020, 2:16 p.m.	Dec. 22, 2018, 9:03 p.m.	Dec. 21, 2020, 6:01 a.m.		April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.		April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.
Version	4.1	6.0.0	1.1.3	0.3.1	1.1.4	2.0.3	22.0.0	3.2.0	3.0.2	2.7.2	1.0.5	0.5.2	1.4.2	1.33.2	1.6.1	0.1.2	1.2.3	n/a	3.2.0	n/a	3.2.0
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Commits
Stars	13,631	4,545	527	220	118	27	41	72	36	64	28	6	10	1	9	1	330	0	27	0	27
Repo Forks	2,908	1,622	147	92	53	4	38	21	19	20	10	3	9	3	3	0	183	0	9	0	9
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multi sites
Multilingual											, bilingual (English and Russian)					multilingual support is partial: you can load the same article traslated in other languages	native			, but can implemented by multi-sites
gallery							, via content types		can be a plugin		, but only on admin page				available by using django CMS plugins		available by using django CMS plugins		admin-inlines
Comments		Built in threaded comments with admin dashboard integration, as well as DISQUS integration.	Disqus integration				, 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		No commenting system included.				available through third-party plugins (e.g. disqus)		Only features that make comment integration easier.	Threaded comments with email notification for replies. Automated registration for user after comment posting (no anonymous users!)
RSS									and atom		, for articles and comments		RSS/Atom				or Atom
tag		Built in, with weighted tag cloud.	django-taggit				, django.tagging	, used django-tagging	via django-taggit / django-taggit-autocomplete-modified								with django-taggit		django-taggit	, yes, with django-tagging and autocomplete widget
Search			elastic search						(consider using django-haystack)		, you can change the backend				django-haystack					django-haystack
Linkback ?
plugin									via django-fluent-contents				Supports custom markup renders. Comes with support for markdown, rst and textile		django CMS plugins		, django CMS ones		custom markup renderers
Reactions											, now only Twitter, but you can always set social buttons (through templates) with addthis, sharethis, etc
MetaWeblog API
Markdown							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.			reStructuredText, Markdown, html	Depending on plugin
Pinging
Test coverage		70%							0%				100%				96%		90%
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						via other apps (flatpages / django-fluent-pages / custom)		, through flatpages						, through django CMS
Custom user display
Abstract base models									includes model mixins
Login names can be private
Comment spam filtering		Akismet							honeypots, akismet, auto close / auto moderate (via django-fluent-comments)		, CSRF token through javascript and Akismet					doesn't allow comments	depending on comment plugin			, captcha
WYSIWYG Editor		TinyMCE included, plus hooks for injecting your own widget class	hallo.js				, 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				available by using django CMS plugins	author edits article on his/her PC	(default using CKEditor, but any django CMS plugin will do)		through markitup