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voldemort 0.6.0

Voldemort is a simple static site generator using Jinja2 and Markdown templates.

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Voldemort

Voldemort is a simple static site generator using Jinja2 and markdown templates.

Source Code

Voldemort at GitHub

Installation

sudo easy_install -U voldemort

Usage Options

Usage: voldemort [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w WORK_DIR, --work_dir=WORK_DIR
                        Working Directory
  -s, --serve           Start the HTTP Server
  -p PORT, --port=PORT  Port inwhich the HTTPServer should run
  -d, --deploy          Deploy this website
  -u USER, --user=USER  Login name for server
  -a AT, --at=AT        Server address to deploy the site
  -t TO, --to=TO        Deployment directory

Usage Example

Go to the example directory

cd example

and run

voldemort

start the HTTPServer

voldemort --serve --port 8080

Open your browser and see the website in action.

Deploy the website

voldemort --deploy --user foobarnb --at foobarnbaz.com --to ~/public_html

Writing posts

Posts mainly contain 2 sections. Config section and the Template section. All data inside two --- defines the config and are validated as YAML data. You can set your post related attributes here. In template section you can use Jinja2 templates or Markdown in {% markdown %} and {% endmarkdown %} blocks.

As per Voldemort's default configuration, all base templates should be in layout and include directories. This is not a hard limitation, but kept for preserving the meaning. Posts are written in a directory named posts. For example, we have a directory structure as shown below

layout/
    base.html
    post.html
include/
    navigation.html
posts/
    voldemort-is-awesome.markdown
index.html
css/
    screen.css
    pygments.css

And we have the following data in layout/base.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">

<head>
<title>foobarnbaz.com - {{ page.title }}</title>
{% include "head-common.html" %}
</head>

<body>
<section class="page-content">
{% block content %}{% endblock %}
</section>
</body>
</html>

and include/header.html contains

<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="author" content="Sreejith K" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/foobarnbaz"
  title="foobarnbaz.com" type="application/atom+xml" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/screen.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
<link href='/images/layout/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/ico' />

We will be able to write the following index.html which generates the front page of your blog with all the posts, paginated with the value provided in settings.yaml (defaults to 5).

---
paginate: true
---
{% extends "listing.html" %}
{% block content %}

{% for post in paginator.posts %}
<article class="excerpt">
<header>
<h1><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h1>
<time datetime="{{ post.date | date_to_string }}" pubdate="pubdate">
{{ post.date.strftime("%b %d, %Y") }}
</time>
</header>

{% if loop.first %}
{{ post.content }}
<p class="full-post"><a href="{{ post.url }}#comments">comments...</a></p>
{% else %}
<p>{{ post.content }}</p>
<p class="full-post"><a href="{{ post.url }}">full post...</a></p>
{% endif %}

</article>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}

And our sample post posts/voldemort-is-awesome.markdown,

---
title: Voldemort
date: '02-10-2011'
time: '10:45'
---
{% extends "post.html" %}

{% block postcontent %}
{% markdown %}

[Voldemort](https://github.com/semk/voldemort) is an awesome static site generator based in Jinja2 and Markdown templates.

{% endmarkdown %}
{% endblock %}

For more information about templating read the following documentations.

Configuration

You can change the default settings by editing the settings.yaml.

layout_dir  : layout        # directory inwhich base tempaltes reside
include_dir : include       # html code that can be included goes here
posts_dir   : posts         # directory where you write posts
post_url    : "%Y/%m/%d"    # url to posts. You can alter the order
site_dir    : _site         # generated site will be in this directory
paginate    : 5             # number of pages to be paginated at once

Global variables

site:       Data common to the site.
            Eg: site.time

config:     Data from settings.yaml

posts:      A list of all your posts. All attributes in the YAML section
            can be accessed either using . or [].
            eg. post['date'], post.date

paginator:  You can paginate your posts using this object.
            eg: {% for post in paginator.posts %}
            Attributes:
                posts:  list of posts in this paginator
                current_page    : current page number (None if not)
                next_page       : next page number (None if not)
                previous_page   : previous page number (None if not)

post:       Info about the post. Only accessible in posts.
            Attributes:
                content         : html content of the post
                url             : url to this post
                id              : identifier for the post (url)
                next            : points to the next post
                previous        : points to the previous post
            and you can access all the attributes in the config section (eg: post.date)

page:       Info about a page. Only available in pages other than posts.
            Attributes:
                content         : html content of the post
            and you can access all the attributes in the config section (eg: page.title)

Filters

Apart from built-in filters provided by Jinja2, Voldemort provides the following filters to use inside HTML pages.

date:                   Format datetime objects.
                            eg. post.date | date("%d-%m-%Y")
date_to_string:         Convert date to string.
                            eg. "27 Jan 2011"
date_to_long_string:    Format a date in long format.
                            eg. "27 January 2011"
date_to_xmlschema:      Format a date for use in XML.
                            eg. "2011-04-24T20:34:46+05:30"
xml_escape:             Replace special characters "&", "<" and ">" to
                            HTML-safe sequences.
cgi_escape:             CGI escape a string for use in a URL. Replaces any special
                            characters with appropriate %XX replacements.
uri_escape:             Escape special characters in url.
number_of_words:        Return number of words in a string.
excerpt:                Return the data inside <!--begin excerpt--> and
                            <!--end excerpt--> tags in posts.
 
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