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EDIT - This applied to when my blog was on the web, written in and published from Emacs with org-mode. These days I just created and edit gemtext files in whatever editor is to hand.
I've seen a few other people doing the #100DaysToOffload who are using Emacs to write. It seems that of among those who are, using ox-hugo is common. It's an exporter from org format into markdown with the front matter that Hugo expects. Hugo is a very nice, fast static site engine but I've taken a different route, and am using a simple elisp configuration calling 'org-html-publish-to-html'. This actually publishes all of dctrud.sdf.org, so there are three components to the org-publish project named 'site':
(defun spacelite/init-org-publish ()
;; Blog publishing
(require 'ox-publish)
(setq org-publish-project-alist
'(("site"
:components ("content" "static" "blog"))
The first 'content' component takes care of some non-blog pages which live in
the root of the site. It's pretty simple with just a few aspects of the
default output disabled, and a stylesheet added. That stylesheet is a stripped
down and customized version of org-css:
https://github.com/DiegoVicen/org-css
("content"
:base-directory "'/Org/www/pages/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "/ssh:dctrud@ma.sdf.org:/meta/www/d/dctrud/"
:publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
:recursive t
:timestamp t
:with-sub-superscript nil
:section-numbers: nil
:with-headline-numbers nil
:style "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"/static/org-css/stylesheet.css\" type=\"text/css\" />")
The 'static' component pushes up any static files I have locally, so they are
available to use or link to in pages and posts.
("static"
:base-directory "'/Org/www/static/"
:base-extension "css\\|js\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|pdf\\|mp3\\|ogg\\|swf\\|otf"
:publishing-directory "/ssh:dctrud@ma.sdf.org:/meta/www/d/dctrud/static/"
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-publish-attachment)
Then the 'blog' posts component... this is pretty much the same as for the normal pages in the 'content' component, but with the addition of a sitemap. This sitemap is just the simple index page to the posts. It's automatically written out to an 'index.org' file when I call 'org-publish-all' and then that goes through 'org-html-publish-to-html' to become 'index.html' in the '/blog' section of the website.
("blog"
:base-directory "'/Org/www/blog/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "/ssh:dctrud@ma.sdf.org:/meta/www/d/dctrud/blog/"
:publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
:makeindex nil
:auto-sitemap t
:sitemap-filename "index.org"
:sitemap-title "dctrud@sdf :: Blog"
:sitemap-function spacelite/blog-sitemap-function
:sitemap-sort-files anti-chronologically
:recursive t
:timestamp t
:with-sub-superscript nil
:section-numbers: nil
:with-headline-numbers nil
))))
The 'sitemap-function' is used to customize the generation of the sitemap 'index.org'. It's very simple and ugly, and should probably include header / footer stuff from files rather than just concatenating a bunch of strings, but I'm lazy and it works for now.
A 'sitemap-function' has to operate over the 'list' that it receives. Here '(org-list-to-org list)' is just creating a normal (bullet) list containing a link to each post, under the '* Recent Posts' top level section.
(defun spacelite/blog-sitemap-function (title list)
(concat "#+TITLE: dctrud@sdf :: Blog\n"
"#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"/static/org-css/stylesheet.css\" />\n\n"
"#+BEGIN_CENTER\n"
"[ [[file:../index.org][Home]] | [[file:../cv.org][About Me]] | [[file:index.org][Blog]] | [[file:../selfhosting.org][Self Hosting]] | [[file:../vinyl.org][Vinyl]] ]\n"
"#+END_CENTER\n\n"
"Welcome to my blog... I'm currently taking part in the [[https://100daystooffload.com/][#100DaysToOffload]] challenge\n"
"so there should be something insignificant and uninteresting added here every day :-)\n\n"
"Expect a mix of various things... computing, music, bbq, and other topics.\n\n"
"* Recent Posts\n"
(org-list-to-org list)
"\n-----\n"))
And that's all there is to it. Whenever I create a new post (I'm doing a single org file per post) I can call 'org-publish-all' and my site will get updated. It's not as fast to publish the site as hugo would be, but it's fast enough for me. At some point I will revisit it to sort out a couple more things that are common: