Where We Are Right Now...
Let me give you a brief overview about the current TextPress status. Right now all the core features and administration work and we have about ten plugins that implement various features such as automatic typographic quote setting, file uploads, static pages and support for markdown, creole and HTML with automatic paragraphs.
Here a list of completed features:
- Automatic Paragraph setting and HTML cleanup
- support for multiple authors
- extensible plugin interface for themes, parsers, event driven plugins, APIs and widgets
- theme-able, both templates and CSS files of course
- basic anti-spam capabilities thanks to the akismet plugin
- Atom feeds
- Pingback-support
- a mixture of tags and categories*
- threaded and flat comments
- database support for at least SQLite, Postgres and MySQL
* I’m not quite happy with that right now, we should probably split it into categories and tags like most recent WordPress installations.
What’s missing for the initial 0.1 release are converters for at least WordPress and RSS/Atom feeds and an improved comment moderation system that keeps spam comments and unmoderated comments apart.
Calling this a Wordpress clone is going to put a lot of people off. Maybe call this “what Wordpress would be if it were complete recoded - in Python”. Can’t wait to try it out! What are your plans to battle spam apart from comment moderation? Akismet?
Comment by Jokull — 2008-02-18 16:28 | # - re
Yes. And I’m also unhappy with the name but too lazy to rename it right now. There is an akismet plugin which is also enabled here.
Comment by Armin Ronacher — 2008-02-18 17:29 | # - re
Just install Textpress, look pretty slick. I think you guys are moving into the right direction. Installation process quite good. Just one suggestion - Rich Text Editor. I know some people do not like this (me included) but this is one major selling point of Wordpress. I maintain one Wordpress blog for a user and being a writer, he enjoyed it very much. I can see the amount of articles he wrote doubled after he got the Wordpress blog.
From a development perspective, making it more like a platform would attract more developers. I’m currently using Drupal and enjoyed developing on it very much except for one very well known fact - it’s in PHP. I’m still looking for a platform to develop in Python. Plone is too big tough it is the closest match of Drupal in Python world. Django on the other hand is a framework and for a very customized applications, it is a good choice. But /me just a blogger who know a little bit about code ;)
I’ve yet to look into Textpress code, maybe I can try to write some plugins.
Comment by k4ml — 2008-02-22 08:36 | # - re
I like the way u do! It’s fantastic - I use your Werkzeug for my personal blog - and it’s with sqlalchemy like textpress!
Comment by bsdemon — 2008-02-27 14:48 | # - re