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	PyLucid CMS	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	django-fluent-blogs	wagtailnews	django-marcus	djeasy	django-andablog	django-hermes	django-andablog	w3blog

Package	Wagtail CMS	Mezzanine	puput	django-blog-it	Django Bona Blog	PyLucid CMS	Elephantblog for FeinCMS	django-fluent-blogs	wagtailnews	django-marcus	djeasy	django-andablog	django-hermes	django-andablog	w3blog
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...	PyLucid is ready to use Django-CMS setup	A blog for FeinCMS	A blog engine with flexible block contents (based on django-fluent-contents)	News/blog plugin for Wagtail CMS	Bilingual blog on Django	Django Project Deploy Easier to in Debian Distribution!	A blog app that is only intended to be embedded within an existing Django site.	A light-weight blogging app for Django.	A blog app that is only intended to be embedded within an existing Django site.	A simple blog engine for Django with multilingual capabilities
Category	Framework	Framework	App	App	App	Framework	App	App	App	App	Other	App	App	App	App
# Using This	96	130	9	3	0	4	4	1	0	1	1	1	2	1	0
Python 3?
Development Status	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown	Unknown	Production/Stable	Pre-Alpha	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown	Unknown	Alpha	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Production/Stable	Unknown
Last updated	Sept. 28, 2022, 6:24 a.m.	Sept. 19, 2022, 12:51 p.m.	Nov. 10, 2021, 5:33 a.m.	Feb. 2, 2021, 7:02 a.m.	July 13, 2021, 10:08 p.m.	Aug. 4, 2021, 3:22 a.m.	Jan. 7, 2022, 12:18 p.m.	Jan. 9, 2022, 10:08 a.m.	July 8, 2021, 6:29 p.m.	June 10, 2021, 1:41 p.m.	May 29, 2020, 5:48 a.m.	April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.	April 20, 2021, 12:39 p.m.	April 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m.	Oct. 5, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
Version	3.0.1	6.0.0	1.1.3	0.3.1	1.1.4	3.2.0	22.0.0	3.0.2	2.7.2	1.0.5	2.0.1	3.2.0	1.4.2	3.2.0	0.5.2
Repo	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub
Commits
Stars	12,770	4,508	519	220	112	72	41	36	63	28	25	27	10	27	6
Repo Forks	2,753	1,598	144	94	53	20	38	19	20	10	5	9	9	9	3
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multi sites
Multilingual										, bilingual (English and Russian)
gallery							, via content types	can be a plugin		, but only on admin page				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.	Only features that make comment integration easier.
RSS								and atom		, for articles and comments			RSS/Atom
tag		Built in, with weighted tag cloud.	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
Linkback ?
plugin								via django-fluent-contents					Supports custom markup renders. Comes with support for markdown, rst and textile	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.
Pinging
Test coverage		70%						0%					100%	90%
Sharing Hooks		Integrated with bit.ly - post to Facebook and Twitter
Sitemap										, separately for each language
Import from Wordpress		(also custom importers for Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, and RSS)								, through django-command "wordpress_importer"
Multiple Authors								(unless using a custom model)
Date Views
Categories
AtomPub/APP Support
Custom User Model
General Pages			using Wagtail 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						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				, 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