What is PyBlosxom?

PyBlosxom is a lightweight file-based weblog system. PyBlosxom focuses on three things: simplicity, extensibility, and community.

• simplicity - PyBlosxom uses the file system for all its data storage. Because of this you can use whatever existing editor, scripts and tools you want to create, update and manipulate entries and other blog data.
• extensibility - PyBlosxom has a plugin framework allowing you to build plugins in Python to augment and change PyBlosxom's default behavior.
• community - There are hundreds of PyBlosxom users out there all of whom have different needs. PyBlosxom is used on a variety of operating systems in a variety of environments. The pyblosxom users list shares their experiences, plugins, and expertise. The pyblosxom devel list shares their ideas for changes, patches and plugins.

Features

• run it as a static renderer to compile your blog to html
• run as a CGI script
• run as a WSGI application
• lots of plugins that modify and extend behavior
• RSS 2.0 and Atom syndication feeds
• category and date-based archives and feeds

PyBlosxom allows you to use your existing editor, toolset and workflow to maintain your blog without forcing you to build it all from scratch.

Quickstart

 $ pip install pyblosxom
 $ pyblosxom-cmd create ./blog
 $ cd blog
 $ paster serve blog.ini

Project information

• Git repository: http://gitorious.org/pyblosxom/
• References/specifications: references/specs
  
• IRC: #pyblosxom on freenode.net
• mailing lists
  • pyblosxom-users - pyblosxom-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net (subscribe/unsubscribe) (archives)
    This mailing list is for users who are having problems installing or configuring PyBlosxom. It can also be used for questions, comments, bugs, ideas, and things of that nature as well.
    The GMANE archives have RSS links if you're interested in following along that way.
  • pyblosxom-devel - pyblosxom-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net (subscribe/unsubscribe) (archives)
    This mailing list is for developers who want to add/modify/delete functionality in PyBlosxom. Since it revolves around PyBlosxom development, it's also a good place to ask questions about how to build plugins and for advice on working around various plugin development issues.
    The GMANE archives have RSS links if you're interested in following along that way.

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