Blogging

by Nate Aune — last modified Jan 23, 2006 08:23 PM
There exist many blogging tools for Plone, but none that have emerged as a full-featured blogging product comparable to Wordpress. We hope to consolidate some of the efforts and build a definitive blogging solution for Plone, utilizing Zope 3 adaptors and interfaces so that the functionality can be reused by other products.

Jon Stahl has some good reasons for why Plone needs a good blogging product, and what sorts of features such a product should have.

He even pleads with the the Plone developer community to not reinvent the wheel (how many different blogging tools does a CMS need?) and instead rally efforts around a single definitive blogging product for Plone.

Tom argues that it's okay there are so many blogging products because then each person can do things their own way rather than make compromises.

Below is a list of the current crop of blogging tools. Thankfully efforts are underway to share development efforts across the Quills and EasyBlog products, utilizing Tim Hick's Five/Zope3-based syndication and plonetrackback tools.

  • Quills
  • EasyBlog - next version EasyBlog Generation V is expected to be completely restructured to make heavy use of the component model of Zope 3 using Five.
  • Plone Blog (qPloneBlog) is based on the SimpleBlog product. It is enhanced with ping abilities, RSS2 support for audio and video enclosures, Technorati tags, TrackBacks.
  • SimpleBlog - no fancy blogger-api/backlink stuff etc (yet), but it supports categories.
  • COREBlog2
  • KNotes - uses PostgreSQL on backend.
  • Bitakora (Zope only)


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