# Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia

Simple yet powerful and really extendable application for managing a blog within your Django Web site.

Repository: https://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-blog-zinnia
Homepage: http://django-blog-zinnia.com/
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, django, blog
Last push: 2024-05-03T19:19:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6260, "days_push": 852, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2124, forks 729 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.769590+00:00)

## What it is
Django Blog Zinnia is a reusable Django application for managing a blog within an existing Django website. It provides blog publishing features such as entries with tags and categories, comments, feeds, archives, spam protection, and an advanced search engine, while delegating other features to third-party reusable apps.

## Use cases
- add a blog to an existing django site
- publish weblog entries with tags and categories
- manage blog posts with prepublication and expiration dates
- convert from wordpress or blogger to django
- add rss and atom feeds to a django blog
- protect blog comments from spam
- run a multi-author collaborative blog

## When to choose
- you already run a Django site and want an extensible, pluggable blog app
- you want a blog that integrates with Django's admin, auth, and reusable-app ecosystem
- you need features like pingback/trackback, MetaWeblog API, and CMS plugins out of the box

## When to avoid
- you want a standalone blogging platform rather than a Django app
- you need a headless or API-first blog engine
- you require a project with frequent recent releases and active development

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, search-engine, templating
- domain: web-development, cms, backend
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: django-app, blogging, weblog, reusable-app, content-publishing, rss, django, web-server

## Member repositories
- Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.769590+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:52:47.272379+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.769590+00:00, sha 5dbf7e7c5eba)
  - homepage: http://django-blog-zinnia.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:45.477871+00:00, sha 4daefd6ba636)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-blog-zinnia/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:45.491203+00:00, sha 510c2b9bf33d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.