Mercury
(or, "Mercury Blogging Engine" for SEO's sake) (formerly "MeTal")
A pure Python (3.2+) CMS and blogging solution with a friendly WordPress-like UI
Features
- Open source (MIT license)
- Pure Python; no binaries or external dependencies save for the Python interpreter (and whatever libraries it uses internally)
- Static HTML publishing
- Dynamic page and site previews
- Plugin system
- Multiple sites and blogs supported in a single installation
- Multiple users and granular permissions (contribute, write, edit, publish, manage, etc.)
- Key/value store for metadata on objects
- Drag-and-drop media management included but optional
Planned additions
- Multiple edit format support (e.g., Markdown)
- Multiple template type support (e.g., Jinja)
- Publishing from external files rather than in-DB data
- Command-line functionality
- L10N
Python 2.x backwards compatibility (Sorry, we're going to be 3.2+ from now on.)
... more to come ...
This project is still very raw; it won't work yet if you try to deploy it. It's being
committed publicly to show that progress is taking place on it. We are, however,
getting close to providing an alpha-test version that can be manually installed.