What my blog software is doing for me

I've read quite a few of articles claiming that blog software is very simple and that one can quickly create his (or her) own blog in a day or two.

To verify this claim (well, building my own blog with - say - Django or Pylons is a tempting idea), I dumped notes of what my current blog software is doing for me.

Or, in text form:

Writing

• Web interface

• preview

• tags

• categories

• date/time

• WYSIWYG

• via API

• Metaweblog

  • Categories

  • Post as draft

  • Update post

  • Tags

  • Title and author

• Modifications

• preserved date

• published articles

• Products

• Entries

• Static pages

• Category descriptions

• Pictures

  • upload

  • galeries

  • flickr

• Entry content

• Title

• Author

• Date

• Basic text

• Extended text

• Meta description (excerpt)

• Meta keywords

• Tags

• Category

• Draft status

• Versioning

• Pretty URL

  • permalink

• UTF8

• Special properties

  • Sticky

  • Invisible in index

  • Password protected

• Categories

• Hierarchy

  • Multilevel

• Names and descriptions

• Sidebar plugin

• Tags

• Assigning

  • from list

• Autogeneration

• Technorati

• Formats

• Markdown

• HTML

  • fix HTML errors

• Source code formatting

• Nice to have

  • REST

  • Article table of contents

  • Image styling

  • Javascript image zoom

Administration

• Multilanguage

• Polish

• English

• Sidebar titles, standard headers, hints, ...

• Admin interface

• Performance

• Cache

• Layout

• C-M-C

• M-CC

• Page title tuning

• Helpers

• Google Analytics

• Google Adsense

• AddThis

• Amazon scripts

• Users

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Registration

• Multisite

• Many blogs

• Many authors

• Translated versions

• Feedburner

• subscribe by email

• hide original feed

Reading

• Entry index

• General

• For category

• For tag

• Sorted by date

• Sticky articles

• Entry data

  • Title

  • Author

  • Category

  • Leading text

  • Link to the full article

  • Comments count

  • Trackbacks count

  • Tags

• pagination

• Sidebar

  • Category list

  • Tag cloud

  • Newest comments

  • Persistent info

  • Ads

  • Links to other entries

  • Specific period

  • Random

  • Popular

• Archive

• per year/month

• Single entry

• Sidebar

  • Like on index page

  • Newest entries

  • Entries from the same category

• Content

  • Date/time

  • Title

  • Author

  • Category

  • Leading text

  • Main (extended) text

• Extras

  • Social icons (digg, stumbleupon, ...)

  • Comments count

  • Trackbacks count

  • Tags

  • Links

  • Related by tags

  • Neighbours

• Trackbacks

• Comments

  • Reply to link

  • Hierarchy

  • Link to author's page

  • Avatar

    • Gravatar

  • Email reminders about replies

• Static pages

• Search engine

• Full text

• Javascript panel

• Feeds

• Main

• For category

• For tag

  • Maybe useless

• Subscribe by email

Commenting

• Text comments

• Data

  • Author

  • Remeber data in cookie

  • Email

  • Title

  • Autor's page link

  • Text

  • Markdown

• Handling

  • Preview

  • Result info

  • Accepted

  • Awaiting moderation

  • Email reminders about replies

• Integration

  • Disqus

  • cocomment

• Trackbacks (accepting)

• Pingbacks (accepting)

• Contact form

Moderating

• Automatical

• Akismet/antispam

• Captcha

• URL filtering

• Manual

• Accept

• Reject

• Edit

• Email

• New comment

• New trackback

• Contact form filled

Catalogues/SEO

• Permanent URLs

• Entry

• Category

• Feed

• Tag

• Index

• To be preserved in case of blog engine change

• MetaKeywords

• title

• description

• keywords

• Automation

• Trackback posting

• Ping posting

• Sitemap

  • generation

  • upload