= Description =

Byteflow is a blog engine written in [http://python.org/ Python] using [http://djangoproject.com/ Django]. The Byteflow team is proud of our clean codebase, and we are struggling to keep it that way. This makes it easy for python programmers and those who sympathize to learn the code and add features. Byteflow has a large feature set, including some capabilities that are not available in most blog engines (for an example, look at our feed by union of tags).

= License =

This project is released under the BSD License, so you can use and distribute it absolutely for free.

= Latest news =
(This is only the important news. For a complete list of changes see the [/timeline timeline].)

 * 25.05.2009: 0.7 released.
 * 16.09.2008: Moved to Django 1.0

= Features =

 * Markdown & typogrify for posts and comments
 * '''Threaded''' comments
 * Pingbacks
 * Directory pings
 * Automated registration for user after comment posting ('''no''' anonymous users!)
 * Registration approval/email change/profile edit
 * Tags (and filtering posts by tag)
 * Display and feeds for intersection of tags (separated by `+`) or for union of tags (separated by '|')
 * Archives by day, month, year
 * Atom and RSS Feeds for posts, comments, comments for specified post, posts within specified tag.
 * OpenID client. Supports '''multiple''' OpenID urls attached to single user
 * OpenID server.
 * Wordpress importer
 * Gravatar support
 * Optional WYSIWYG editor in admin part (for posts, not for comments)
 * LiveJournal crossposting
 * XFN support (for links in blogroll)
 * [wiki:Feedburner] support
 * Translations to Russian, German, Hungarian
 * Image uploading (and selecting for display in post)
 * Profile merge
 * Helps you configure webserver (see `./manage.py help config`)
 * Includes some nice [wiki:Themes], and you can easily make your own

= Links =

If you have any questions, you can ask them on jabber or on the mailing list:

 * `byteflow@conference.jabber.ru` ([http://chatlogs.jabber.ru/byteflow@conference.jabber.ru/ logs])
 * [http://groups.google.com/group/byteflow-users byteflow-users] mailing list for byteflow users, english
 * [http://groups.google.com/group/byteflow-hackers byteflow-hackers] mailing list for byteflow developers

You can access the code here:
 * [http://hg.piranha.org.ua/byteflow/ Mercurial repo]

= Documentation = 

 - Documentation is being moved to [/docs/ /docs/] in Sphinx. Don't hesitate to either send patches for it (it is stored in the Byteflow repository) or to edit the wiki (I'll correct the documentation accordingly).
 - [wiki:Installation]
 - [wiki:InstallationTutorials Installation tutorials from our community]
 - [wiki:CodingGuide Coding Guide]
 - [wiki:EnhancementGuide Enhancement Guide]
 - [wiki:Documentation]

= Sites using byteflow =
The first one is piranha's [http://piranha.org.ua/ Amazon Byteflow]. All others see at ByteflowPoweredBlogs

= How can you help =

There are many ways you can help the project:
 * It is a great help if you report any bugs or misunderstandings you see by creating a ticket (see the link at the top of the page).
 * You can post ideas for development to the mailing list.
 * If you want to contribute code improvements or a theme, just let us know.

If you'd like to contribute, read ContributionGuide.

An important way of improving Byteflow is to share it with others:
 * Stack byteflow on [http://www.ohloh.net/projects/11299 ohloh.net],
 * Link to [http://byteflow.su],
 * Let people know that your blog is powered by Byteflow!

= Plans (release) =

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= Plans (further improving) =

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= Plans (unassigned) =

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