laktek / punch-blog

A boilerplate to create personal blogs based on Punch

Punch Blog

A boilerplate to create personal blogs based on Punch.

Features

• Preview posts, as you write them.

• Easily publish to Amazon S3.

• Pretty URLs for permalinks (no .html, configurable).

• Responsive, customizable theme based on HTML5Boilerplate & 320andup framework.

• Load fonts from multiple sources with WebFonts Loader.

• Easily configure Google Analytics, Tweet button & Disqus comments.

• Highlighting the current page link.

• Post archives by tags.

• Post archives by year, month or date.

• Write posts using GitHub flavored Markdown.

• Client-side code highlighting with Prism.js

• Published/draft states.

• Automatically minifies and bundles JavaScript/CSS.

• RSS feed

• Sitemap.xml

Also, you can use any other features available in Punch.

• Manage other pages with Punch's default content handler.

• Extend the behavior by writing your own helpers.

How to use

You can get started quickly with Nitrous.IO.

• Download & extract the code.

• Inside the project's root directory, run npm install.

• Set the details of the blog in contents/shared.json.

• Open config.json and change the settings as you prefer.

• Then go inside posts directory and edit the file 1970-01-01-lets-start.markdown.

• Once you have created your first post, to preview it run punch s and point the browser to http://localhost:9009.

• When you are happy with the outcome, publish your blog by running punch p.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Lakshan Perera Licensed under the MIT license.