Firedrop 0.2.2

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Firedrop 0.2.2

emoticon:firedrop2 Firedrop 2 0.2.2 is now available. Cool

You can download it from :

Firedrop-0.2.2.zip

This is an important release with several new features, and contributions from new developers joining the team.

What is Firedrop2 ?

Firedrop2 is a free, cross-platform blogging tool written in Python. It keeps your blog source files on your computer, making it a clientside tool. This means you control your blog, and can easily move it from one server to another, with no risk of losing data. It also means you can manage your blog offline. Cool

It is fully open source, and has all the features you expect from a modern blogging program :

  • RSS feed generation
  • Categories
  • Automatic archive generation
  • A powerful set of plugins, including spellchecker, emailer, and themes
  • Entries can be made in text, HTML, ReST, textile, sextile or markdown markup
  • HTML templating system and macros for all sorts of tricks
  • Built-in FTP capability for uploading your blog to a server
  • Integrated blog comments support (Through Haloscan)
  • Because it's written in Python, it is easy to extend Firedrop or create new plugins for it

What's New ?

This release has a lot of bugfixes and changes. Hopefully I've remembered the important ones. Smile

  • Fixed a bug with categories and the unicode wxPython
  • Added the Themes plugin by Stewart Midwinter [1]
  • RSS feeds can be generated for all the categories, by Davy Mitchell
  • Firedrop now saves user data in the users home (checking sensibly for directories where it has write permissions)
  • Now includes support for the Haloscan comments system.
  • Addition of the Firedrop2 banner by Stewart Midwinter.

Plus other code improvements and bug fixes.

Their is already work being done on the next release. This will include features like :

  • Faster build time through entry HTML caching
  • Blog statistics report generation
  • Tagging
  • A Podcast plugin
  • Extension to the plugin protocol for extra plugin capabilities
[1]The Themes plugin requires version 0.3.32 of Wax, or more recent.

Posted by Fuzzyman on 2006-06-07 21:53:24.
Categories: Projects, Python
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