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Quills

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Quills is a weblog for Plone. It is designed from the ground up to work well and provide specialized features for a multi-blog, multi-user environment.

Current release: Quills 0.9

Released Jun 13, 2006 — tested with Plone 2.1.3, Plone 2.1.2

Stable Quills.

List all releases… Full release announcement…

Get Quills for all platforms (73.6 kB)

0.9.1 tarball

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 Quills…

Quills 1.6 (Beta release) Released Sep 24, 2007

A Plone 3.0 compatibility release

Quills 1.5 (Release candidate) Released Aug 15, 2006

Takes Quills further than 1.0, but not as far as 2.0 :).

Quills 1.5-alpha1 (Alpha release) Released Mar 1, 2006

Takes Quills further than 1.0, but not as far as 2.0 :).

Quills 0.9-beta3 (Beta release) Released Aug 9, 2005

Third 0.9 beta with numerous bug fixes

Quills 0.9-beta2 (Beta release) Released May 27, 2005

0.9 has several new features, numerous bug fixes, and an improved design.

Quills 2.0 (Unreleased) Planned release: Mar 21, 2007

This version of Quills entails a major redesign and an effort to significantly reduce the amount of code which comprises Quills.

Quills 1.7 (Unreleased)

This release provides support for using Quills' traversal logic (i.e. blog-ish URLs like .../2008/01/13/post-id) and views for standard Plone content types (i.e. 'Folder' and 'Page'). It also adds ttw configuration of workflow states making it possible to use Quills with arbitrary workflows. Also adds support for the handling of file/image uploads through the MetaWeblog remote blogging API.

Project Description

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Quills is an Enterprise Weblog System for the Plone content management system. It is designed from the ground up to work well and provide specialized features for a multi-blog, multi-user environment.

Examples

If you'd like to see your blog listed, please let us know

Features

Archival entry paths. Access blog archives via standard paths such as http://example.com/myblog/archive/2004/04/06/
Topics with descriptions and images
BloggerAPI support for remote posting
Track Back Pings
Visitors can leave comments on blog entries, optionally require registration to limit "Comment Spam"
Unlimited Authors, Blogs per Author, and Authors per Blog
Site-wide blog aggregator
Blog Planets for groups
Multiple topics and advanced topic searching, with simple URIs such as http://example.com/myblog/topics/work/project/

Roadmap

Initial release: 2004-08-01
TODO for releases up to 1.0
- Technorati alerts
- Improve multi-user features
- LinkBlog
- Improve XML-RPC support
- Individual control of portlets
- Individual "Skinning"

by Tom von Schwerdtner — last modified July 17, 2006 - 14:49

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