/2012/06/06/Filestack---A-simple-open-source-blogging-platform/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/06\/06\/Filestack---A-simple-open-source-blogging-platform\/","trash":"","name":"Filestack---A-simple-open-source-blogging-platform","parent":"","title":"Filestack - A simple open source blogging platform","date":"2012-06-06 18:26:56","filepath":"posts\/20120606_Filestack---A-simple-open-source-blogging-platform.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<p><img style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/files_med.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" \/>After one hack to many, I've decided to abandon my <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> installation on <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamhost.com\/\">Dreamhost<\/a> and create my own lightweight replacement. WordPress is just too large a target for hackers and comment spammers making a small blog a chore to maintain and backup.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/Software\/Filestack\/\">Filestack<\/a> was born. It's an open source, Apache 2.0 licensed, blog platform built on Django.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here's it's raison d'être:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy content storage with files (back up is painless)<\/li>\n<li>Single user<\/li>\n<li>Basic CMS features: Scheduled publishing, Categories, Tags, etc...<\/li>\n<li>WYSIWYG HTML editor<\/li>\n<li>No destructive actions, like content deletion, available via HTTP<\/li>\n<li>Quick serving of a WordPress export file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bonus Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Themeable and with Django templates<\/li>\n<li>File upload helper<\/li>\n<li>Encapsulated Django app with quick installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/Filestack\/\">Filestack<\/a> was built with <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">Python<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djangoproject.com\/\">Django<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\/\">jQuery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/960.gs\">960.gs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fancybox.net\">fancybox<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymce.com\/\">TinyMCE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/DeanCutlet\/filestack\">source code<\/a> on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshots:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>You are looking at it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\">8BitRobot.com<\/a> is running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/Filestack\/\">Filestack<\/a> with the default <em>Newsprint<\/em> theme.<\/p>"}}
