Posted on December 30, 2007
People ask about blogging apps for the Django platform all the time. I have not investigated each and every one of these, but so far I still feel pretty confident that not one of these is fully baked (although some are getting close) in any sort of manner comparable to something like WordPress or Typo. That said, there’s a lot of great code here, and if you’re not interested in creating your own, use one of the following.
Banjo
basic blog
Blogango
Blogmaker
Byteflow Blog Engine
Coltrane
django-diario
Flother
Zangetsu
In addition to the above I highly recommend reading James Bennett’s excellent post on Where is Django’s blog application?
If I missed yours and you are still maintaining it, please let me know and I’ll update the list.
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Posted on December 06, 2007
On the heels of James Bennett’s post titled Where is Django’s blog application, the folks at Blogcosm just released Blogmaker. Blogmaker is a full-featured, production-quality blogging application for Django. It supports trackbacks, ping and comments with moderation and honeypot spam prevention.
Blogmaker lists the requirements as:
Blogmaker requires Python 2.5; earlier versions will not work. Blogmaker works with Django 0.96; it has not been tested with later releases.
I haven’t looked into the code yet, but it sure looks like it has good potential .
Blogmaker is released under a BSD license.
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Posted on August 21, 2007
Just the other day I heard about two interesting Django projects. Ross Poulton, creator of the Django Sites website, is at it again. This time with a community site providing a centralized repository for Django Apps. Things are still baking on this one, so I don’t have a url to point you to at the moment, but keep an eye on Ross’ blog.
I’m especially excited about this project because this has been something on my personal ToDo list for some time. Ross did such a great job with Django Sites, I’m eager to see what he comes up with. For a while now I’ve been offering some Google Foo that I got off of the #django IRC Channel as a way to find needed apps. It is a relief because now I will have somewhere to point people when they are looking for an app, like Django-Tagging.
The next project is a Django App which not only will fill a nice void but also provide some best practices examples for creating your own apps. Collin Grady, James Bennett and others have teamed up to create Counterpoint, a Django Forums app. The need for a forum app comes up quite often, so I’m glad to see that these folks are cranking away on it. I got a chance to play around with a “live” version the other day and I was quite impressed.
It is great to see the community continue to build on such a great platform.
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