Once upon a time, there was a blogging product called Quills. It was the most feature-rich blogging package in all the Plone kingdom, with trackbacks, pings, support for remote editors, and more. But alas, it introduced its own blog entry content type very different from News Item, so webmasters were forced to bear a substantial lock-in risk to get those features.
Today, we are fortunate enough to have QuillsEnabled, a rethinking of Quills without the risk of lock-in. Using marker-interface cleverness, QuillsEnabled provides all the features of Quills but using standard News Items. In fact, you can use any content type you like as blog entries—even more than one type in a single blog—and their fully rendered representations show in listings:
With lock-in thus addressed, QuillsEnabled is an easy recommendation for blogs that need bells and whistles like...
A monthly archive of past entries (and within each month, a day-by-day archive)
Atom and RDF...