blog.opentechstrategies.com

This is OTS's blog backend. It contains:

• Pelican config
• Jinja templates
• Blog posts, pages, uploaded media

Developing And Writing Posts

In a terminal, do this:

git clone PUT REPO GIT INFO HERE
bin/serve

Then add a file to sites/content/posts. The site will update and you can view it on localhost:8000.

When you're satisfied with your post, add it to the website:

git add PATH/TO/POST
git commit -m "Add new post"
git push

TODO: add instructions for actually taking a post live. Theoretically, they should be able to just rsync it somewhere, but maybe we should check out the repo server-side and then do a git pull and bin/build.

Dependencies

You will need Pelican with the markdown plugin. You can install it with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You might have to fiddle with a virtual environment, but that will be specific to your system, so I leave that to you.