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This project is a friendly fork of the original Django Blog Zinnia_ project by Julien Fache @Fantomas42_.

Despite multiple attempts to contact Julien Fache_, the original Zinnia repository is no longer active and maintained by its author. Virtually no activity since March 2020 has been recorded, and the project is no longer compatible with modern versions of Django 3 & 4.\

In order to recover the project's legacy, and to provide a community maintained alternative, this fork this has been created.\

Please head over to Docs.DjangoBlogZinnia.com_ for documentation and other resources.\

Installation

Using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/arrobalytics/[email protected].

Using pipenv, add Django Blog Zinnia to your Pipfile dependencies:

django-blog-zinnia = { git = "https://github.com/arrobalytics/[email protected]" }

Then run:

pipenv install

RoadMap

As a priority, this fork will be focused on updating Zinnia to work with modern versions of Django and in removing/replacing all deprecated features.

Once the project is updated, the following activities are planned for future releases:

• Inspection, evaluation and update of Zinnia's dependencies.
• Extension of Entry Model to create and support multiple image sizes for SEO and performance purposes.
• Implementation of a browser-based Entry editor to eliminate the need to write plain Markdown on the Django Admin site for creating Entries.
• Develop a new Zinnia default theme based on modern CSS frameworks such as Bulma, Bootstrap, etc.
• Update Tests and make use of GitHub actions for testing.
• Update documentation.

=================================== Django Blog Zinnia

Simple yet powerful and really extendable application for managing a blog within your Django Web site.

Django Blog Zinnia is a community maintained fork of the abandoned Django Blog Zinnia project by @Fantomas42_. Zinnia has been made for publishing Weblog entries and designed to do it well.

Basically any feature that can be provided by another reusable app has been left out. Why should we re-implement something that is already done and reviewed by others and tested?

Features

More than a long speech, here the list of the main features:

• Comments
• Sitemaps_
• Archives views
• Related entries
• Private entries
• RSS or Atom Feeds
• Tags and categories views
• Advanced search engine_
• Prepublication and expiration
• Custom templates for various contents_
• Editing in Markdown, Textile or reStructuredText_
• Widgets (Popular entries, Similar entries, ...)
• Spam protection with Akismet, TypePad or Mollom_
• Admin dashboard
• MetaWeblog API_
• Ping Directories
• Ping External links
• Bit.ly_ support
• Twitter_ support
• Gravatar_ support
• Django-CMS_ plugins
• Collaborative work
• Tags autocompletion
• Entry model extendable_
• Pingback/Trackback support
• Blogger conversion utility_
• WordPress conversion utility_
• WYMeditor, TinyMCE , CKEditor_ and MarkItUp_ support
• Efficient database queries
• Ready to use and extendable templates
• Compass_ and Sass3_ integration
• Windows Live Writer_ compatibility

Examples

Take a look at the online demo at: http://demo.djangoblogzinnia.com/ or you can visit these websites who use Zinnia.

• Fantomas' side_
• Vidzor Studio LLC_
• Bookshadow_
• Future Proof Games_
• Programeria_
• Tihomir Blajev Blog_
• Branchspot_

If you are a proud user of Zinnia, send me the URL of your website and I will add it to the list.

Online resources

More information and help available at these URLs:

• Code repository_
• Documentation_
• Travis CI server_
• Coverage report_
• Discussions and help at Google Group_
• For reporting a bug use GitHub Issues_

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.. _Sitemaps: http://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com/en/latest/getting-started/configuration.html#module-zinnia.sitemaps .. _Advanced search engine: http://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com/en/latest/topics/search_engines.html .. _Custom templates for various contents: http://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com/en/latest/getting-started/configuration.html#templates-for-entries .. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ .. _Textile: http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/ .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html .. _Akismet: https://github.com/Fantomas42/zinnia-spam-checker-akismet .. _TypePad: https://github.com/Fantomas42/zinnia-spam-checker-akismet#using-typepad-antispam .. _Mollom: https://github.com/Fantomas42/zinnia-spam-checker-mollom .. _MetaWeblog API: http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi .. _Bit.ly: https://github.com/Fantomas42/zinnia-url-shortener-bitly .. _Twitter: https://github.com/Fantomas42/zinnia-twitter .. _Gravatar: http://gravatar.com/ .. _Django-CMS: http://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com/en/latest/getting-started/configuration.html#django-cms .. _Entry model extendable: http://django-blog-zinnia.rtfd.org/extending-entry .. _WYMeditor: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/zinnia-wysiwyg-wymeditor .. _TinyMCE: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/zinnia-wysiwyg-tinymce .. _CKEditor: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/zinnia-wysiwyg-ckeditor .. _MarkItUp: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/zinnia-wysiwyg-markitup .. _Blogger conversion utility: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/blogger2zinnia .. _WordPress conversion utility: https://github.com/django-blog-zinnia/wordpress2zinnia .. _Compass: http://compass-style.org/ .. _Sass3: http://sass-lang.com/ .. _Windows Live Writer: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-writer .. _Fantomas' side: http://fantomas.site/blog/ .. _Vidzor Studio LLC: http://vidzor.com/blog/ .. _Bookshadow: http://bookshadow.com/weblog/ .. _Future Proof Games: http://futureproofgames.com/blog/ .. _Programeria: https://programeria.pl/ .. _Tihomir Blajev Blog: http://www.tihoblajev.com/weblog/ .. _Branchspot: https://www.branchspot.com/blog/ .. _Code repository: https://github.com/arrobalytics/django-blog-zinnia .. _Documentation: http://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com/ .. _Travis CI server: http://travis-ci.org/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia .. _Coverage report: https://coveralls.io/r/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia .. _Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/django-blog-zinnia/ .. _GitHub Issues: https://github.com/arrobalytics/django-blog-zinnia/issues/ .. _original Django Blog Zinnia: https://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia/ .. _@Fantomas42: https://github.com/Fantomas42/ .. _Julien Fache: https://github.com/Fantomas42/ .. _Docs.DjangoBlogZinnia.com: https://docs.djangoblogzinnia.com