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bashblog
A Bash script that handles blog posting.
Some would say it's a CMS, but I don't like that word. It's just a script that lets you write a blog post with your favorite editor, puts all the posts together into an index, and creates an RSS file and a list of posts.
I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies.
You can read the initial blog post for more information and as a demo, as my site has been 100% generated using bashblog.
Usage
Download bb.sh into a public folder of yours and run it:
./bb.sh
This will show the available commands
Before creating a blog post, edit bb.sh and modify the variables in the global_variables() function or create a .config file with your configutation values
To create your first post, make sure $EDITOR is set, and then just do:
./bb.sh post
When you're done, access the public URL for that folder and you should see the index file and a new page for that post!
Features
- Simple creation and edition of the posts with your favorite text editor
- Post preview
- Save posts as drafts and resume later
- Transformation of every post to its own html page, using the title as the URL
- Generation of an index.html file with the latest 10 posts
- Generation of an RSS file! Blog's magic is the RSS file, isn't it...?
- Generation of a page with all posts, to solve the index.html pagination problem
- Rebuilding the index files without the need to create a new entry
- Google Analytics support
- Feedburner support
- Auto-generated CSS support
- Headers, footers, and in general everything that a well-structured html file has
- xhtml validation, CSS validation, RSS validation by the w3c
- Backup of the site every time you post
- Everything contained in a single 700-line bash script!
- A simple but nice and readable design, with nothing but the blog posts
Read the CHANGELOG section of the script header for more updates