fdb713/selene

A simple CMS for blogging built with Tornado and MongoDB

Selene

A simple CMS for blogging inspired by my beautiful wife and built with Tornado and MongoDB.

Requirements

• Tornado
• PyMongo
• py-bcrypt
• WTForms
• docutils
• Misaka
• Postmarkup
• Textile
• TornadoMail

Core features

• Responsive UI with Twitter-Bootstrap.
• Customizable theming.

• Text types for posting:

  • Text plain
  • HTML
  • Markdown
  • reStructuredText
  • BBCode
  • Textile

• Posts sharing via Google+, Twitter and Facebook.
• Optional comments management via Disqus.

• Supported localization:

  • English (en_US)
  • Spanish (es_ES)
  • French (fr_FR)
  • Chinese (zh_HK, zh_CN)

• Support for Google Analytics and Gravatar.
• Customizable search for publications using regular expressions or full text search.

TODO list

• Motor!
• More text types: txt2tags, etc.
• Forms validation and escaping
• Support for RSS with XML files and aggressive caching (No templates)
• Support for multi-blogging
• Support for third-party and customizable authentication (Google, Facebook and Twitter)
• "Installation wizard"

Contributors

• Lowstz Chen (@lowstz)
• Juan Carlos Farah (@juancarlosfarah)

I want to improve this project with your help... I will watch to all of your pull-requests!