Static blog generators are a dime a dozen. This is one more, which
focuses on being simple. All files are simple org-mode files in a
directory. The only requirement is that every org file must have a
#+TITLE and a #+DATE, and optionally, #+FILETAGS.
This file is also available from marmalade and melpa-stable.
Set up your blog by customizing org-static-blog's parameters, then
call M-x org-static-blog-publish to render the whole blog or
M-x org-static-blog-publish-file filename.org to render only only
the file filename.org.
Above all, I tried to make org-static-blog as simple as possible. There are no magic tricks, and all of the source code is meant to be easy to read, understand and modify.
For org-static-blog, a blog consists of six parts:
- Blog posts contain individual entries. Every org file in
org-static-blog-posts-directoryis one blog post. Each blog post is rendered as its own HTML page. - The index page contains the last few blog posts on a single page.
The number of entries on the index page can be customized using
org-static-blog-index-length. - The archive page lists the publishing dates and headlines of every blog post.
- The RSS feed is a machine-readable XML file that contains every blog post. It is not meant to be consumed by humans. Instead RSS readers can use the RSS feed to aggregate entries from multiple blogs.
- Drafts are rendered like regular blog posts, but are not included in the index, the archive, or the RSS feed.
- Each blog post can be tagged, and each tag links to a page that
lists all other posts of the same tag. Additionally, a tag overview
page is created that lists the publishing dates and headlines of
every blog post, sorted by tags. This feature is only enabled if you
set
org-static-blog-enable-tagstot.
Every HTML page in org-static-blog can be customized in the following ways:
- The contents of
org-static-blog-page-headerare inserted into the<head>of every page. Use this to include custom CSS and JavaScript for your blog. - The contents of
org-static-blog-page-preambleis inserted just before the content of every page. This is a good place to put the header or menus for your blog. - The contents of
org-static-blog-page-postambleis inserted just after the content of every blog entry, but not in the index page and the archive. This is where you can include copyright notices or comment boxes. - The return values of
org-static-blog-post-preambleandorg-static-blog-post-postambleare prepended and appended to every blog post. If you want to change the formatting of dates, titles, or the tag list, overwrite these functions.
If you want to activate a few convenience key bindings, add
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (cons (concat org-static-blog-posts-directory ".*\\.org\\'") 'org-static-blog-mode))
to your init.el. These key bindings are:
C-c C-f/C-c C-bto open next/previous post.C-c C-pto open the matching published HTML file of a post.C-c C-nto create a new blog post.
If you have questions, if you find bugs, or if you would like to contribute something to org-static-blog, please open an issue or pull request on GitHub.
Finally, I would like to remind you that I am developing this project for free, and in my spare time. While I try to be as accommodating as possible, I can not guarantee a timely response to issues. Publishing Open Source Software on GitHub does not imply an obligation to fix your problem right now. Please be civil.
org-static-blog was used to render http://bastibe.de/. Have
a look at my init.el and the repository for the blog
itself to see an example of how to use org-static-blog in practice.
- Org-static-blog is a pure static site generator. As such, it does not include comments. However, you can easily include services like Disqus to do this for you.
- You can have hosting services like GitHub auto-render you blog every time you commit using continuous integration tools like Travis CI. An example of how to do this has been gracefully provided by zngguvnf.
- Individual blog entries are only re-rendered if no current HTML file is available (i.e. the org file is older than the HTML file). If you want to forcibly re-render an entry, delete the HTML file.
- 2018-03-17 (v1.0.4): Massive speed up of org-static-blog. A re-render with one changed file used to take about a second per post, and now takes about a second total.
- 2018-03-21 (v1.1.0): Tags.
Each post can now have tags (using
#+tags:). If you enableorg-static-blog-enable-tags, tags are included in each post, tag-index pages are generated for each tag, and a tag archive is generated for all tags. - 2018-03-23 (v1.1.1): Tags.
Deprecated
#+tags:in favor of#+filetags:, which is the correct way of setting file-wide tags in org-mode. (Thank you, Kaushal Modi!)
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