Socrates is a simple static site generator. It's geared towards blogs. You write your posts in your favorite plain text to HTML language (e.g. Markdown, textile, reStructuredText) and save them as text files on your harddrive. Socrates then takes them, and creates a full HTML site for you. For free, you will get a home page which lists latest posts, single post pages, category pages, archive pages, an about page and an atom feed.
- Familiar Django and Jinja2 templates
- Simple install via pip
- Markdown, reStructuredText, Textile support
- YAML configuration
- Atom feed
- Github pages compatible
- Real HTML punctuation
First, you need to create a new blog:
$ socrates -i blog
This will create a blog
directory with a simple blog structure:
blog posts 2010-your-post.md pages about.md contact.md layout index.html single.html category.html ... media style.css config.yaml
The posts
directory is where you will place your posts files. Anything
prefixed with _
or .
will be ignored. layout
is your basic theme or
a template. config.yaml
is a site-wide configuration file. Don't forget to
update the about file with relevant information.
You can also create a new blog in the current working directory:
$ socrates -i
When you are ready to generate your site, you run:
$ socrates -g blog
Or,
$ socrates -g
for current directory.
This will place all the generated files in blog/deploy
. You can then take
that directory and upload it to your server.
First, set up your virtual environment and pip install Socrates.
virtualenv env --no-site-packages source env/bin/activate pip install socrates
Or, to get the latest code, you can install from Github or Bitbucket.
pip install -e git://github.com/honza/socrates.git#egg=socrates
The next step is to install your templates. At the moment, you can choose between Django templates and Jinja2 templates. The default theme uses Django.
Socrates supports Django templates and Jinja2 templates. You can specify which
templating engine you wish to use in the config.yaml
file. There are two
basic themes in the themes
directory to get you started.
Socrates will attemp to convert your text files into HTML using a text
processor. You should specify the name of the text processor in
config.yaml
. It should be all lowercase. Currently supported processors:
- Markdown
- Textile
- reStructuredText
- HTML (unmodified text)
You can start a simple development server to aid you in development.:
$ socrates -r blog
Or,
$ socrates -r
for current directory.
During development and/or composing a layout theme, it might be useful to always re-generate all posts, without caching. To do so, you can run the following option:
$ socrates -c
The documentation is contained within the docs
directory and is written in
reStructuredText using Sphinx. The documentation is easily read in a
standard text editor. However, you can build an HTML version like so:
$ pip install sphinx $ cd docs/ $ make html $ open _build/html/index.html
Or, you can view the online version of the latest documentation.
Socrates is licensed under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license.
All contributions are welcome. Please do ask if a feature is wanted before starting work to avoid wasting your time.
Please report all bugs on Github. Mailing list. You can also come visit us
in #socrates
on freenode.
Socrates was originally written by Honza Pokorny. For a complete list of authors, please see the AUTHORS file.