Tidy

A neat and tidy Flask-powered blog engine

Currently there is a support for:

• Easy to use, clean style
• User Accounts
  • Two user roles: admin and normal user. Both can create and edit posts, but only admin can manage users and posts (i.e. delete)
• Blog posts are written in Markdown. All symbols supported via flask-markdown library
• RESTful URLS with easily readable post title slugs
• Users can upload thumbnail images to their blog posts
• Authors can tag posts into different categories. USers can view posts by tags.
• Simple, working pagination

Possible additions in the future:

• About Me -page
• Comments (probably Disqus)
• Account management (i.e. password resets)

Initial Steps

There are a few steps you need to take in order to get the blog to work on a development server

1. Install a virtual environment for Python 2.7, activate it and install required libraries indicated in requirements.txt file pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txt

2. Initialize the database

   • python db_create.py to create the database
   • python db_migrate.py to create a migration
   • python db_upgrade.py to upgrade the database version

3. You might want to edit the config.py file, especially change the 'dummy' secret key

4. python run.py to run the app on a dev server.