TextPress Development Blog

Welcome to the new TextPress development blog. Until 0.1 is released you can read about the latest code changes here and also discuss them. If you don’t know TextPress (which is very likely as it wasn’t announced anywhere so far) let me introduce you to it :-)

TextPress is a WordPress clone developed in Python with a tight focus on security and extensibility. The code and the installation is separated so you can upgrade multiple blogs in one go once we have a stable release.

If you want to give it a try yourself, head over to #pocoo on irc.freenode.net and give feedback. Google knows the link to the repository ;-) Be warned. So far we don’t recommend TextPress for production environments because there are still some rough edges.

If you are a python developer and interested in the project, here some development details. It’s written for Python 2.4 and higher, uses Werkzeug for the WSGI interface, Jinja as template engine, SQLAlchemy for the database layer and will use Babel for internationalization and localization. So far there are no converters so that’s one of the first things where we need help.

Updates will follow on a regular basis, so stay tuned.