the website for homebrewserver.club pelican repo / theme and blog posts
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hi,
Now that we're writing articles and all..
this is my proposed approach to the new hbsc website, a static blog generated with pelican.
the advantages of this is that you create very fast, light websites and don't need to run any kind of CMS or other heavy stuff. Plus its a great way to over-engineer what could have been a very simple website.
it takes some getting used to, so here are some steps to get you going:
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workflow:
firstoff start by enabling the pelican virtualenv:
workon pelican
Follow this guide for setting up the virtualenv:
https://www.notionsandnotes.org/tech/web-development/pelican-static-blog-setup.html
If you run into any kind of problem where files / commands are missing, you're likely
not using the virtualenv. Deactive the virtualenv by running:
deactivate
write new posts by making new .md files in the directory
/opt/hbsc_site/raw/
If you wish to start from a template of a post:
cp /opt/hbsc_site/no_publish/template.md /opt/hbsc_site/raw/mypost.md
alternatively you can use make_post.py in /opt/hbsc_site/pelican to generate
a post template including dates like so:
python make_post.py hey_this_is_a_post
to generate the website go to hbsc_site/pelican and run:
make html
the files are written to /opt/hbsc_site/homebrewserver.club
if you're working on the theme it might be nice to open another terminal (login again or use screen/tmux) and run:
make regenerate
this will regenerate the website upon each file modification. very nice.
to finally publish:
make publish
this will copy the site to /var/www/html/
How to organize content:
raw/
├── extra <-- static stuff
│   └── robots.txt
├── fonts <-- static fonts
│   └── TerminusTTF-Italic-4.40.1.ttf
├── images <-- if you want images in your posts, add them here
│   └── myimage.png
├── pages <-- static pages
│   └── about.md
├── template.md <-- your posts
└── testing.md
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You can write your posts either in markdown or restructured text.
For Markdown here's a useful cheatsheet:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pelican-edt/wiki/markdown_syntax/
further examples (of enabled plugins) are in /opt/hbsc_site/no_publish/template.md
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stuff:
change the template and css style by editing the files in
/opt/hbsc_site/pelican/themes/homebrewserver.club/
for things such as enabling plugins edit the conf files in
/opt/hbsc_site/pelican/
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much room for it
like: lets track the whole thing with git?
I've added some stuff in the theme for syndication and SEO (see also: https://github.com/talha131/onCrashReboot/blob/master/content/Elegant%20-%20Pelican%20Theme/seo-social-media-tags.md)
this syndycation stuff can be found in /opt/hbsc_site/pelican/theme/homebrewserver.club/template/syndication.html