Selene

A simple CMS for blogging inspired by my beautiful wife and built with Tornado and MongoDB. See a demo site here.

Important

For this project we have considered to move all MongoDB operations from PyMongo to Motor, the asynchronous Python driver for Tornado, any changes regarding this can be found in a branch named "motor".

Requirements

• Tornado
• PyMongo
• py-bcrypt
• WTForms
• TornadoMail
• Werkzeug

Other modules are optionally required

• docutils
• Misaka
• Postmarkup
• Textile
• mediawiki
• python-creole
• tornado_pyuv
• MongoLog

Core features

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

• Text types for posting:

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

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

• Supported localization:

  • Arabic (ar_AR)
  • German (de_DE)
  • English (en_US)
  • Spanish (es_ES)
  • French (fr_FR)
  • Italian (it_IT)
  • Japanese (ja_JP)
  • Macedonian (mk_MK)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Chinese Simplified (zh_CN)
  • Chinese Traditional (zh_HK, zh_TW)

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

Installing and Running

1. Install the requirements using pip:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Configure your Selene instance using the configure.py script, setting all available options:

   python configure.py
   

3. Run your Selene instance:

   python server.py
   

Contributors

• Cristina Diliberto (@cry10589 in Twitter)
• Elena Petrevska (@el3na77 in Twitter)
• Samar Hazboun (@Samar_Hazboun in Twitter)
• Shermila Guerra (@shermilaguerra in Twitter)
• Lowstz Chen (@lowstz)
• Juan Carlos Farah (@juancarlosfarah)
• Luigi Van (@fdb713)
• Liangyi Zhang (@SidneyZhang in Twitter)

I want to improve this project with your help... I'm looking forward for all of your pull requests!