Byteflow

Infobox Software
name = Byteflow
developer = [http://piranha.org.ua Alexander Solovyov]
latest_release_version = N/A
latest_release_date = N/A
latest_preview_version = tip of Mercurial repo
operating_system = Cross-platform
platform = Python / Django
genre = Blog publishing system
license = BSD License
website = http://byteflow.su/

Byteflow is an open source blog engine, distributed under the terms of BSD License. It is written in Python, using Django, currently developed mostly by Ukrainian and Russian programmers.Cite web|url=http://byteflow.su/timeline|title=Timeline - Byteflow blog engine|accessdate=2008-05-15] It is in active development and first stable release is aimed to be released in second half of 2008. Byteflow is one of the most widely used open source Django-based projects.Fact|date=May 2008 Also, Byteflow is the most full-featuredFact|date=July 2008 blog engine, written on top of Django.

Features

List of features, which are present in Byteflow just now:Cite web|url=http://byteflow.su/#Features|title=Byteflow blog engine|accessdate=2008-05-15]
* Support for different markup languages: Markdown, BBCode, plain text, HTML
* Same for comments (type of markup is determined by settings)
* Threaded comments
* Sending and receiving of pingbacks
* Pings to blog catalogs
* Automatic user registration after posting his first comment
* Commentators' ability to edit their profile
* Tags for posts, tag cloud, post display filtration by tags
* Atom and RSS feeds for posts, comments, pingbacks, tags and tag unions
* Viewing posts from given by day, month, year
* OpenID-authentication, support for multiple OpenID accounts per user
* OpenID server
* Import from WordPress database
* Gravatar support
* Optional WYSIWYG editor for writing posts
* LiveJournal cross-posting
* XFN support for links to friendly blogs
* Optional CAPTCHA in comment form, ReCAPTCHA support

Planned functionality

This items are in development or scheduled to near future:
* Simplification of themes engineCite web|url=http://byteflow.su/ticket/28|title=#28 (themes support) Byteflow blog engine|accessdate=2008-05-15]
* Plugin systemCite web|url=http://byteflow.su/ticket/53|title=#53 (Plugins system) Byteflow blog engine|accessdate=2008-05-15]

Notes

Links

* [http://byteflow.su byteflow.su] - official site
* [http://groups.google.com/group/byteflow-users byteflow-users] — google group for Byteflow users
* [http://groups.google.com/group/byteflow-users byteflow-hackers] — google group for Byteflow developers (there can be Russian threads)
* [http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/11/byteflow/ Simon Willison] 's (one of Django initial developers) blog post about Byteflow