envs
/
bashblog
mirror of https://git.envs.net/envs/bashblog.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity
A single Bash script to create blogs. Download, run, write, done!
33 Commits 2 Branches 0 Tags 891 KiB
Shell 99.2%
Makefile 0.8%
Go to file
Carlos Bautista cccb1547c9 Added config file support and check for files existing prior to backup 2013-03-13 14:48:44 +01:00
README.md make sure $EDITOR is set, or everything breaks 2013-03-07 19:14:06 +01:00
bb.sh Added config file support and check for files existing prior to backup 2013-03-13 14:48:44 +01:00

README.md

bashblog

A Bash script that handles blog posting.

Some would say it's a CMS, but I don't like that word. It's just a script that lets you write a blog post with your favorite editor, puts all the posts together into an index, and creates an RSS file and a list of posts.

I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies.

You can read the initial blog post for more information and as a demo, as my site has been 100% generated using bashblog.

Usage

Download bb.sh into a public folder of yours and run it:

./bb.sh

This will show the available commands

Before creating a blog post, edit bb.sh and modify the variables in the global_variables() function

To create your first post, make sure $EDITOR is set, and then just do:

./bb.sh post

When you're done, access the public URL for that folder and you should see the index file and a new page for that post!

Features

  • Simple creation and edition of the posts with your favorite text editor
  • Post preview
  • Save posts as drafts and resume later
  • Transformation of every post to its own html page, using the title as the URL
  • Generation of an index.html file with the latest 10 posts
  • Generation of an RSS file! Blog's magic is the RSS file, isn't it...?
  • Generation of a page with all posts, to solve the index.html pagination problem
  • Rebuilding the index files without the need to create a new entry
  • Google Analytics support
  • Feedburner support
  • Auto-generated CSS support
  • Headers, footers, and in general everything that a well-structured html file has
  • xhtml validation, CSS validation, RSS validation by the w3c
  • Backup of the site every time you post
  • Everything contained in a single 700-line bash script!
  • A simple but nice and readable design, with nothing but the blog posts

Non features (not planned)

  • Comments. Would need a CAPTCHA or another antispam mechanism. Comments are handled through twitter, with a Twitter button

Read the CHANGELOG section of the script header for more updates