Welcome to Bitakora’s documentation!

Bitakora is an Open source blog community management system based on the django framework.

Getting Started

If you’re new to Bitakora, you may want to start with these documents to get you up and running:

Getting started with Bitakora

Dependencies

  • MySQL-python
  • Sphinx
  • elasticsearch
  • lxml
  • Pillow
  • argparse
  • csdjango.contactform
  • akismet
  • django-photologue
  • django-tinymce
  • django-pagination-bootstrap
  • django-bootstrap-form
  • django-recaptcha
  • django-registration-redux
  • django-voting
  • django-haystack
  • python-social-auth
  • django-social-share
  • django-easy-select2
  • django-contact-form
  • django-mobile
  • boto
  • django-storages
  • cssocialuser
  • bitakora
  • gunicorn

Installation

Create your workbench:

mkdir bitakora
cd bitakora
mkdir buildout
cd buildout
virtualenv .
./bin/pip install zc.buildout

Configuration

  • RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY
  • RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY
  • NOCAPTCHA: By default True
  • BITAKORA_SEND_MAIL
  • BITAKORA_TWITTER_USER
  • BITAKORA_GA
  • PROFILE_PHOTO_DEFAULT: By default ‘no-profile-photo’
  • SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_KEY
  • SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_SECRET
  • SOCIAL_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • SOCIAL_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
  • SOCIAL_AUTH_FACEBOOK_KEY
  • SOCIAL_AUTH_FACEBOOK_SECRET

Customization

  • BITAKORA_CUSTOM_CSS
  • BITAKORA_CUSTOM_LOGO
  • BITAKORA_CUSTOM_MINILOGO
  • BITAKORA_CUSTOM_FAVICON

Run Bitakora

./bin/django runserver 0:8080

Screenshots

Some eye candy images of the project:

Project Screenshots

Main page

This is the main page of Bitakora.

_images/bitakora_index.png

Blog index

_images/bitakora_blog.png

User settings

_images/bitakora_settings.png

Article Edition

_images/bitakora_write_article.png

Note

This documentation images represents Bitakora 1.x. Please, check the demo to see the last version look & feel

Requirements

Bitakora has a relatively easily-met set of requirements.

  • Python 2.7+
  • Django 1.8+

License

This file is part of Bitakora.

Bitakora is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Bitakora is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bitakora. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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