syegulalp / mercury

Pure Python CMS and blogging solution using static HTML

This repo is now read-only. See https://github.com/syegulalp/mercury-ng for the successor to this project.

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.