Python3 weblog site generator script -- Single script to create and manage a blog using only python and text files
I intend to redo bashblog (github.com/the8woodcutter/bashblog) in python to do essentially the same thing
- I've decided to make a REDO not a REWRITE as if rewriting is more like copying bashblog code methods (1 for 1 even?), and redoing is copying end result
- Additional feature ideas include a profile self object with variables and avatar (optionally gravatar is an option) for personification,
- Editable CSS blocks for seperation of spacing, colors, text, block objects, etc OPTIONAL
- Templates segmented more, include javascript, metadata, css, header, nav, body, footer, javascript_head and javascript_footer blocks OPTIONAL
- An attempt of simple to read script and simple function structure
- Simple seperation from default (easy/simpler) stuff and more involved stuff; perhaps a first run function? !Python not to install packages!
- RSS automagic using lists that reuses data for twtxt.txt, twtxt.txt we want to maybe use yarn.social extensions? Webhooks! APIs! LoL :D
- Use of python for ANYTHING functional but when used as a script
- More to come
- There needs to be a planned database structure (using the python shelve / pickle scheme, no sql or external db needed)
- How to represent this even as a code comment block???
- the REAL next thing we do is... decide what page types, ie: main index, tags, categories, profile, post index, rss index, etc
- make drawing of the blog intended structure 0-100% (filling things in as we go)
- conjuring of the profile functions and file structure, as well as which ephemeral files/dirs are needed for what (tinker it up foo)
- if it's a page, distinct outside of blog page, it can be unified itself, and borrow CSS from
templates/default/*/*as defaults.
- if it's a page, distinct outside of blog page, it can be unified itself, and borrow CSS from
do:
- ~python3 python config.py
- fill out the config.py with your data, at least read it
- [optional]: cp any /templates/default/*/*.html to /templates/custom/*/ for overiding HTML and CSS things
- make a post using python3 pb.py post
- Highly recommended to change some of the HTML / CSS from default (which you can see all in /templates/default/*/*)
- cp to /templates/custom/*/* then change in /*/custom/*/*
nginx/apache2/httpd:
- all pages by the scheme have index.html files that will make the URL /vlogs/index.html as /vlogs/
- howevwer for SEO sake /posts/i-am-a-post-page.html is how posts will be represented
- tags should use index.html but tag name should be at /tags/{tag_name}/index.html while presenting as '/tags/{tag_name}/
- how do we do this??? scratching head