Taiga blog

Taiga blog (https://blog.taiga.io/) made with Pelican (https://github.com/getpelican/pelican).

For developers:

Setup

• Create virtualenv:

  • With virtaulenvwrapper (old style)

    mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 taiga-blog
    workon taiga-blog

  • Or with venv (new style)

    python3 -m venv .env
    source .env/bin/activate

• Install python dependencies:

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install SASS (only if you want to modify style):

  gem install sass scss-lint
  export PATH="/usr/bin/core_perl:$(ruby -e "print Gem.user_dir")/bin:$PATH"

Run/Stop

• Enable the enviroment

  • With virtaulenvwrapper (old style)

    workon taiga-blog

  • Or with venv (new style)

    source .env/bin/activate

• Run dev server

  make devserver

• Stop dev server

  make stopserver

• Deactivate the enviroment

  deactivate

Recompile styles

You need sass and scss-lint installed

make compile_styles

HOWTOs

Use a custom og:image in a blog post

Use the meta og_image. For example:

Title: Join #Hacktoberfest with Taiga!
Date: 2019-10-11 09:00
Category: Announcements
Author: Taiga Team
og_image: {filename}/images/2019-09-11_taiga_hackoctoberfest/hackoctoberfest.jpg
...