Oh how I long to move this blog off of WordPress and onto something I build (or cull together) on top of the Django platform. It feels like it is mostly pulling together a host of different apps that are already written:

• django-tagging
• Comments
• Comment Utils
• django-pingback
• Markup
• Syndication

That leaves a core part of the blog to write -- something to store the actual entries and then a URL scheme to display different levels of archives and individual posts. Of course, this schemes needs not to break current links.

This led me to check out what already might exist on Google Code and found these (limited to the most active):

• waggly-blog
• blogmaker
• django-basic-blog
• django-diario
• blogango

All are basically the same, with slightly different inclusions and approaches to this core "Blog" feature.

Lastly, a feature I'd want to implement (if there isn't already an app out there supporting it that I can integrate) is a MetaWeblog API interface so that I can use MarsEdit, my favorite blog publish. Then all that would be left would be figuring out the data structure of WordPress and migrate over all my content (this is the only part that I am not looking forward to).