Marketionist / py-blog

A simple static blog template

py-blog

A simple static blog template.

Requirements

Python versions: 2.7 or 3.5+.

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/Marketionist/py-blog.git

2. Create virtual environment and activate it:

python -m venv py-blog/
source py-blog/bin/activate

3. Switch to py-blog folder and install all dependencies:

cd py-blog && pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

To run the server

FLASK_APP='server.py' FLASK_ENV='development' flask run

The server will start running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit).

To freeze the app

1. Add the articles as markdown .md files to the posts/{post-category} folder. Here is a good Markdown Cheatsheet. Corresponding URL will be generated from each article file name.
2. Add images for each article to static/images/{post-category} folder.
3. Generate the static files:

SERVER_NAME='yourdomain.org' python freeze.py

All generated files will appear inside the build folder. Copy generated files to your hosting.

Thanks

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