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A (hopefully easy-to-use) weblog for Plone.

Current release

No stable release available yet.

Experimental releases

Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases

  • Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
  • Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
  • Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

Release roadmap for EasyBlog…

EasyBlog 1.0.1-beta-2 (Beta release 2) Released Jul 27, 2006
Bugfix release.
EasyBlog 1.0.1 (Beta release) Released Jun 27, 2006
Update for Plone 2.5
EasyBlog 1.0 (Beta release) Released Nov 29, 2005
Added permissions and roles aware forms and admin portlet.
EasyBlog 0.5 (Beta release) Released Oct 31, 2005
Mostly improvements of existing features.
EasyBlog 0.4 (Beta release) Released Sep 16, 2005
Optimized for Plone 2.1. Improved UI.
EasyBlog 0.3 (Beta release) Released Sep 5, 2005
Added Comments. Added Trackbacks
EasyBlog 0.2 (Beta release) Released Aug 26, 2005
Added RSS 2.0 feed. Added admin portlet.
EasyBlog 0.1.1 (Beta release) Released Aug 20, 2005
Added searchable fields (text, more) which were forgotton at inital release. Added ordered categories.
EasyBlog 0.1 (Beta release) Released Aug 18, 2005
Initial release
EasyBlog 2.0 (Unreleased)
Completely refactored using zope 3 technologies

Project Description

Project resources

EasyBlog

A (hopefully easy-to-use) weblog for Plone.

Requirements

  • Zope 2.8.1
  • Plone-2.1
  • Archetypes 1.3.4-final

It may or may not work with other versions.

Features

  • Multiuser/Multiblogs
  • Categories
  • Monthly archives
  • Trackbacks

    Receiving

    • allow/disallow (per blog/entry)
    • show/hide (per blog/entry)
    • moderate yes/no
    • blacklist: always to be reviewed

    Sending

    • autodetection (per blog/entry)
    • logfile
  • Comments
    • allow/disallow (per blog/entry)
    • show/hide (per blog/entry)
    • moderate yes/no
    • preview yes/no
    • HTML tags/attributes handling
    • blacklist: always to be reviewed

Installation

  1. Uncompress the EasyBlog product into your /Products directory or link it there.
  2. Restart Zope
  3. Use CMFQuickInstallerTool (portal_quickinstaller) to install EasyBlog

Credits

  • Richard Pettinger for creating an EasyBlog screencast
  • Enrico Miotello for designing the EasyBlog logo
  • Shane Magee for hunting misspellings and valuable advices about usability
  • Jon Stahl for his always valuable comments about Plone in general and blogging tools especially.
  • Tim Hicks for his openness and for his great software which he provides for free (Quills, base/fatsyndication, plonetrackback, ...).
  • Priyadarshan Bontempi for kindly suggestions, constructive feature requests and hunting bugs.
  • "boboruml" for the czech translation.
  • Valeri Lazarev for the russion translation and hunting bugs.
  • Sebastion Douche for the french translation and kindly advices.
  • Niklas Ekstrand for the swedish translation.
  • Alan Runyan et al. for kindly suggestions.

Copyright

Copyright 2005-2006 by Kai Diefenbach - iqplusplus (kai.diefenbach@iqpp.de)

by Kai Diefenbach last modified August 28, 2006 - 07:36

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