What well-architectured weblog package(s) do you recommend?

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Django is a web applications framework.

The tutorial is a blog application -- feel free to start there and roll your own.

There are sites like Django Pluggables and Django-Apps that have reusable Django apps available.

S.Lott 2009-03-19 21:05:32

I'm not looking to roll my own (unless I'm forced to), I want to 'hit the ground running'.Also, the tutorial looks to be a poll app, not a blog?

Peter Boughton 2009-03-19 21:30:42

I have a problem with all these "create a blog in 20 mins" tutorials. What comes out after 20 mins is nothing like a blog - it's simply reading a few fields from a DB and putting them onto a page. Still, nice in 20 mins but it is not a blog.

Steve Claridge 2009-03-19 23:18:01

Keep reading. More importantly keep looking at the Django community projects. Much of what you want has already been done and the source is easy to work with.

S.Lott 2009-03-19 23:29:19

Do you know, specifically, that there are Django blogs with good structure, or is this more of a general recommendation/guess that there might be some?

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 12:48:53

I've gone and looked at a few of them, and whilst they're not as painful as many of what I've looked at already, I haven't found any that come close to making me think "yay, a developer who knows what they're doing!" :(

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 12:49:35

Since "good structure" is undefined (and possibly undefinable) I can only say "no" -- nothing you are likely to call "good". However, since Django is so easy to work with, you can write something that you would call "good".

S.Lott 2009-03-20 13:12:25

Well yeah, good structure can be a matter of opinion, but there are plenty of opinionated developers here. ;) And I didn't want to be too specific/restrictive for fear of limiting answers (heh)....

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 14:19:14

If I'm writing it myself, I'll use what I'm most familiar with - but it's generatelly easier to learn syntax with good structure than it is to forge structure from spaghetti....

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 14:19:49

As a quick summary, I want a good database; sensible variable a UI layer distinct from the logic; good decoupling, etc.But I'll update the question later to give more details on what I consider 'good'.(I hate this dumb comment character limit!)

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 14:20:24

I don't understand why this post got -2. I upped it by 1.

Amit Kumar 2009-03-21 05:23:37

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Zine seems to be coming together quite nicely.

alif 2009-03-20 16:29:08

That Zine project looks a bit like WordPress

Wadih M. 2009-03-20 18:06:17

+1 A:

I like Typo. It's a Rails app. The source is clean and easy to read (once you figure out the Rails directory structure) and it has some of the extras like comment spam prevention that many of the smaller packages don't.

Rails deployment used to be fairly difficult, but in the last year it's gotten easier. It runs well on Linux with Apache and Phusion Passenger (mod_rails redone). Here's a recent SO post on best practices for Rails deployment that might be helpful.

Sarah Mei 2009-03-20 16:53:19

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Have you looked at Wordpress 2.7? It really is a fantastic piece of work. I haven't looked deep in the core but from what I've seen of the code it looks well crafted.

I personally have moved to Django and am done with PHP though - so I personally would consider looking for a Django app since it's such a great framework.

Django-blog is basically ok but not a full blow system.

Adam Nelson 2009-03-20 18:01:07

I have looked at Wordpress 2.7.1It really is an absolutely dismal piece of crap.If you think it's well crafted, you need to get help!I started to write an explanation of why Wordpress is so awful, but it's so damned depressing I can't go on.

Peter Boughton 2009-03-20 19:38:38

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Take a look at BrowserCMS and watch this introduction.

skrat 2009-05-11 21:13:22

That video is sending me to sleep...

Peter Boughton 2009-05-11 22:04:18

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