[BangPypers] Dynamic Markdown & Textile Blog/content app

[Arun Ravindran]

I was checking out Pelican and seriously started converting my Jekyll based
site but disliked many aspects of it:

1. Too much magic - The site structure is completely changed by Pelican in
the generated output. For example if you have pictures stored inside the
blog subdirectory, it has to be moved out to a common place. Another common
place must be defined for blog posts.
2. Template system was a tad too complex.

Overall, pelican has some good ideas and is being actively developed. But
it is not really suitable for a power user.

Regards,
Arun


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani <
gopalakrishnan.subramani at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am curious about a blog application (currently rolling out 0.0.1, I will
> put on github soon),  like pelican but little differences.
>
> 1. Pages are dynamic
> 2. Flask, Jinja2  as development platform
> 3. Yaml, Json and Pelican style headers for the meta information (that
> covers category, tags etc, search keywords, title, author etc)
> 4. Markdown, Textile for content.
> 5. Import a python file into blog post with path (without coping the
> content into post), render via pygments and raw view
> 6. Whoosh search (that is text too)
> 7. Ability to link internal posts easily [markdown already does this
> neatly, need to check textile]
> 8. Syncing with Mercurial and Git
> 9. Create/edit post dynamically through web app using web based markdown
> WYSWYG editors, later sync with git, hg
> 10. Basic  minimal templates
> 11. Plug-ins in Jinja2, Python
> 12. Support multiple authors, from different gits, hg repositories or on
> site posts
>
> This is not static html generator, the app will  be serving content
> dynamically, whatever WSGI based server.
>
> Anybody using pelican or other text based blogs share some insights here?
> This is a fun project, contributors welcome.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gopalakrishnan
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