Installation

As easy as pie:

$ pip install ngblog

ngblog relies on figlet to generate the blog title. Install it with your distro's package manager.

This thing just works on Linux, probably.

Start the blog

Create the directory and the configuration file:

$ mkdir blog
$ vim blog/config.ini

Add something like this to the file:

[settings]
title = Blog Title
headline = Blog Headline
footline = Blog Footline -- Multi-line
  capable
author_name = My Name
author_email = example@example.com

Create a sample post:

$ mkdir -p blog/2011/10/30
$ vim blog/2011/10/30/my-post.txt

Add anything you want to the post:

This is my title

This is my body.

I'm a simple parser, but I can recognize paragraphs. ;)

The directory structure of the posts is important, because it is used for get the publishing date.

You might want to store your text files in a Git repository, for history and stuff.

Build the blog

ngblog script is your friend:

$ ngblog --srcdir blog

This will put the generated files in blog/_build. Open the file blog/_build/index.html in any browser to review your blog.

Build the files again, now with your domain as the base URL:

$ ngblog --srcdir blog --baseurl http://example.com/

Feel free to upload these files to your server with some tool like rsync.

Take a look at the ngblog help to see the available options:

$ ngblog --help