blog-generator

A static blog generator using a configurable GitHub repository as a data-source. The posts are written in markdown with yml metadata attached to them. This is an example repo for the blog at https://zupzup.org/.

Features

• Listing
• Sitemap Generator
• RSS Feed
• Code Highlighting
• Archive
• Configurable Static Pages
• Tags
• File-Based Configuration

Installation

go get github.com/zupzup/blog-generator

Usage & Customization

Configuration

The tool can be configured using a config file called bloggen.yml. There is a bloggen.dist.yml in the repository you can use as a template.

Example Config File:

generator:
    repo: 'https://github.com/zupzup/blog'
    tmp: 'tmp'
    dest: 'www'
    userss: true
blog:
    url: 'https://www.zupzup.org'
    language: 'en-us'
    description: 'A blog about Go, JavaScript, Open Source and Programming in General'
    dateformat: '02.01.2006'
    title: 'zupzup'
    author: 'Mario Zupan'
    frontpageposts: 10
    statics:
        files:
            - src: 'static/favicon.ico'
              dest: 'favicon.ico'
            - src: 'static/robots.txt'
              dest: 'robots.txt'
            - src: 'static/about.png'
              dest: 'about.png'
        templates:
            - src: 'static/about.html'
              dest: 'about'

Running

Just execute

blog-generator

Templates

Edit templates in static folder to your needs.

Example Blog Repository

Blog