Stefon is a composable blog engine written in Clojure. This project will try to approach the feature set of Wordpress. The architecture consists of a small kernel with a plugin system wrapped around it. And composable means you could choose to only use a core server component, posting txt entries, let's say with an in-memory data store. If you want a little more, you can choose to add a DB adapter out to Datomic, Import / Export support, etc. This is all still within a running Clojure repl. So additionally, you might choose to add a Web UI (or tablet or smartphone UI), and so on.

See the Introduction Page for more detailed usage information.

• See the Install / Run section on the Introduction Page

• See the Plugin Inclusion section on the Introdcution Page

• Core Data Model
  • posts (txt, rtf, md)
  • assets (images, audio, videos, documents)
  • tags / categories for content
• Server component
  • create post / asset / tag
  • retrieve post / asset
  • update post / asset / tag
  • delete post / asset / tag
  • list posts / assets / tags
  • find posts / assets / tags
• Shell; wrapper where you can run crud commands at a terminal

The architecture consists of a small kernel with a plugin system wrapped around it. The kernel and plugin mechanism has stabilized over the last few weeks. As a goal, I want the plugin architecture to have the following features.

• way for plugins to communicate between each other
• way to list possible actions (namespace qualify action names)
• way to publish actions
• way to listen for feedback from a plug-in
• way to pass binary data (asset(s)) between stefon and plug-in

This is just an initial poke at the plugins I'd like to see for the working system. Some of these are already in development.

• Database component
  • adapters for Datomic, SQL(Postgres, etc), NoSQL (Mongo, etc), cloud storage (AWS SimpleDB, S3)
• Web UI component
  • wyswyg editor, themes
  • embeddable in Compojure or Pedestal
• Workflow component; possibly model workflow with lamina?
  • preview
  • collaboration
  • editor review
  • versioning
• Authentication & Authorization; OpenID
• Spam Detection
• Commenting component; default or an external comments service, like disqus or discourse
• Administration Console
• Import / Export
• Multi-lang / Internationalization

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Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.