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Octopress

Octopress is an obsessively designed toolkit for writing and deploying Jekyll blogs. Pretty sweet, huh?

Build Status

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'octopress', '~> 3.0.0.rc.5'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install octopress --pre

Basic Usage

Here are the commands for Octopress.

Option Description
octopress init <PATH> Adds Octopress scaffolding to your site
octopress new post <TITLE> Add a new post to your site
octopress new page <PATH> Add a new page to your site
octopress new draft <TITLE> Add a new draft post to your site
octopress publish <PATH> Publish a draft from _drafts to _posts
octopress new <PATH> works just like jekyll new
octopress build works just like jekyll build
octopress serve works just like jekyll serve
octopress doctor works just like jekyll doctor

Run octopress [command] --help to learn more about any command and see its options.

Deployment

You can deploy your Octopress or Jeklly blog via git, rsync or Amazon S3. The deployment system ships with the octopress-deploy gem which extends the Octopress CLI with the deploy command.

Configuration

Octopress reads its configurations from _octopress.yml. Here's what the configuration looks like by default.

# Default extension for new posts and pages
post_ext: markdown
page_ext: html

# Default templates for posts and pages
# Found in _templates/
post_layout: post
page_layout: page

# Format titles with titlecase?
titlecase: true

Commands

Init

$ octopress init <PATH> [options]

This will copy Octopress's scaffolding into the specified directory. Use the --force option to overwrite existing files. The scaffolding is pretty simple:

_octopress.yml
_templates/
  post
  page

New Post

This automates the creation of a new post.

$ octopress new post "My Title"

This will create a new file at _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-my-title.markdown with the following YAML front-matter already added.

layout: post
title: "My Title"
date: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00

"Ok, great? What else can I do?" Great question! Check out these other options:

Option Description
--template PATH Use a template from
--date DATE The date for the post. Should be parseable by Time#parse
--slug SLUG Slug for the new post.
--dir DIR Create post at _posts/DIR/.
--force Overwrite exsiting file.

New Page

$ octopress new page some-page           # ./some-page.html
$ octopress new page docs/               # ./docs/index.html
$ octopress new page about.html          # ./about.html
Option Description
--template PATH Use a template from
--title TITLE The title of the new page
--date DATE The date for the page. Should be parseable by Time#parse
--force Overwrite exsiting file.

New Draft

$ octopress new draft "My Title"

This will create a new post in your _drafts directory.

Option Description
--template PATH Use a template from
--date DATE The date for the draft. Should be parseable by Time#parse (defaults to Time.now)
--slug SLUG The slug for the new post.
--force Overwrite exsiting file.

Publish draft

$ octopress publish _drafts/some-post.md

This will move your draft to the _posts directory and rename the file with the proper date.

Option Description
--date DATE The date for the post. Should be parseable by Time#parse
--slug SLUG Change the slug for the new post.
--dir DIR Create post at _posts/DIR/.
--force Overwrite exsiting file.

When publishing a draft, the new post will use the draft's date. Pass the option --date now to the publish command to set the new post date from your system clock. As usual, you can pass any compatible date string as well.

Templates for Posts and pages

Octopress post and page templates look like this.

---
layout: {{ layout }}
title: {{ title }}
date: {{ date }}
---

The YAML variables will be replaced with the correct content when you create a page or post. To modify this template create a _templates/post file and change it as you wish. You can add additional YAML front-matter or content, and you can even create multiple templates. Choose a custom template when creating a new post or page like this.

$ octopress new post --template _templates/linkpost

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request