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Weblog Project

Mar 18, 2007 — Whitney Young

As announced at the end of last month, we took it upon ourselves to create a weblog application. The main point was to replace Typo and reduce the large overhead the weblog was creating on the server. We wanted a fully functional weblog, but didn't need all the bells and whistles from Typo. It's pretty much finished now, and it was a lot of fun to work on.

Here are some of the features:

  • Spam filtering (with Akismet)
  • Easy caching (integrated with Django's caching mechanisms)
  • Article tagging
  • Article archives
  • Multiple user support
  • Customizable interface
  • Easy to integrate into existing (Django) sites
  • Email update for new comments
  • Uses Markdown for easy article writing

I'm considering releasing it as another open source project. Let me know if you're interested in using it or helping out with the project.

Tags: Blog, Django, Open Source

Comments
iken.young Mar 30, 2007

It's great! I think many people are interesed in it as me.