StaticWise - Static Blog Generator

An open source static blog generator built using .NET and C#.

Why Use StaticWise?

If you are serious about blogging, are interested in the ownership of your content, or are conscious of the loading time of your website, StaticWise is an open source project for you.

StaticWise will enable you to write blog articles, or website pages in the popular Markdown publishing format and compile these files to a blog or website. Once compiled using the StaticWise executable, HTML will be generated that you can upload to a web hosting company (GoDaddy, DreamHost, etc.), or publish to a GitHub repository and share using GitHub Pages.

.NET and C#

StaticWise is built using the popular Microsoft .NET Framework and will currently target version 4.5.2.

If you are a .NET developer and use the C# programming language, you can get started in a few minutes by using Visual Studio IDE for Windows or Mac.

Extensible Components

StaticWise includes functionality to compile a static blog or website, and is built on a foundation that can be extended using components.

Inherit a C# Interface to easily build new functionality into StaticWise. If StaticWise does not meet your requirements, use the C# programming language to quickly build new functionality.

Getting Started

StaticWise is built to read a centralized JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) configuration file. The StaticWise executable will prompt you for a path to your configuration file (C:\AwesomeBlog\config.json) and use the settings inside to compile your blog or website.

Demo Configuration File

Please use our demo configuration file to get started and change the settings as necessary to compile a custom static blog or website.

{
	"title": "My Awesome Blog",
	"description": "An awesome blog built using the StaticWise open source project",
	"domainName": "http://www.staticwise.com",
	"favicon": "favicon.ico",
	"feedEntryCount": 10,
	"indexDestinationName": "index",
	"feedDestinationName": "feed",
	"mediaDestinationName": "media",
	"archiveDirectoryName": "archive",
	"archivePageName": "page",
	"meta": [
		{
  			"attribute": [
    			{
      				"key": "charset",
      				"value": "utf-8"
    			}
  			]
		},
		{
	      "attribute": [
	        {
	          "key": "http-equiv",
	          "value": "X-UA-Compatible"
	        },
	        {
	          "key": "content",
	          "value": "IE=edge,chrome=1"
	        }
	      ]
	    },
	    {
	      "attribute": [
	        {
	          "key": "name",
	          "value": "viewport"
	        },
	        {
	          "key": "content",
	          "value": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"
	        }
	      ]
	    }
	],
	"includes": {
		"siteHeader": "header.inc",
		"siteFooter": "footer.inc",
		"postHeader": "post-header.inc",
		"postFooter": "post-footer.inc"
	},
	"scripts": {
		"externalCSS": [
      		"https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather:400,400i,700|Kaushan+Script",
      		"https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"
		],
		"internalCSS": [
  			"style.css"
		],
		"externalJS": [],
		"internalJS": [
  			"analytics.js"
		]
	},
	"code": {
		"documentType": "<!DOCTYPE html>",
		"html": [ "<html lang=\"en\">", "</html>" ],
		"head": [ "<head>", "</head>" ],
		"body": [ "<body>", "</body>" ],
		"archivePostContainer": [ "<article class=\"post-short\">", "</article>" ],
		"archivePostTitle": [ "<h2>", "</h2>" ],
		"individualPostContainer": [ "<article class=\"post-long\">", "</article>" ],
		"individualPostTitle": [ "<h1>", "</h1>" ],
		"pageContainer": [ "<article class=\"post-long\">", "</article>" ],
		"pageTitle": [ "<h1>", "</h1>" ],
		"paginationContainer": [ "<ul class=\"pagination\">", "</ul>" ],
		"paginationItem": [ "<li>", "</li>" ],
		"publishedDateFormat": "D",
		"publishedOnText": "<i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i> Published on ",
		"readMoreText": "<strong>Read More</strong>"
	},
	"includesDirectory": "Includes",
	"scriptsDirectory": "Scripts",
	"postsDirectory": "Posts",
	"draftsDirectory": "Drafts",
	"pagesDirectory": "Pages",
	"mediaDirectory": "Media",
	"outputDirectory": "Output"
}

Demo Blog Directory

Once your configuration file is ready, you can create a new blog directory on your PC using the structure below.

C:\AwesomeBlog
│   config.json
│   favicon.ico
│
├───Includes
│       footer.inc (HTML for the footer of your blog or website)
│       header.inc (HTML for the header of your blog or website)
│       post-footer.inc (HTML for the post footer of your blog)
│       post-header.inc (HTML for the post header of your blog)
│
├───Media
│       logo.png
│
├───Output (HTML output of your compiled blog or website)
├───Pages (Markdown formatted website pages)
│       about.md
│       contact.md
│
├───Posts (Markdown formatted blog posts)
│   │   20180201-first-blog-post.md (Published date is part of filename)
│   │
│   └───Drafts (Not ready to be published)
│           20180219-second-blog-post.md
│
└───Scripts (JavaScript or CSS)
        analytics.js
        style.css

Demo Post or Page

Please use the document structure below for StaticWise to consume Markdown formatted documents.

{
	"title": "First Blog Post!",
	"friendlyUrl": "first-blog-post",
	"description": "My first blog post on my awesome blog"
}

This is my **first** blog post!

Contributions

Please contribute to the source code and make StaticWise even better than it is today! If you would like to contribute, please submit a new issue or pull request.

samclintock / staticwise