Benjen is a tiny static blog generator. At its heart is a <100 line Python script, which takes in your templates and blog entries and produces a static site.
easy_install benjen
From within a blog directory, simply run benjen and your site's output will be in the directory specified in your config file.
Create a new directory with the following structure:
- yourblog/
- entries/
- static/
- templates/
- config.yaml
The entries directory contains all your blog entries as Markdown files.
These should, however, contain the following lines at the beginning:
#title Entry Title Goes Here
#date YYYY-MM-DD
The templates directory contains Mako templates. There are three templates in use, with the following parameters passed in.
- index.html -- Used for index pages
- page -- Current page number
- pages -- Total number of pages
- prev --
Noneor filename to the previous page - next --
Noneor filename to the next page - posts -- List of post objects for this page
- recent_posts -- List of the most recent posts
- post.html
- post -- Current post object
- archive.html
- posts -- List of all posts
Post objects are dicts containing the following values:
- title -- Entry title
- date -- Entry date
- raw -- Markdown text
- html -- HTML version
- link -- Filename for the post
The static directory contains any static data to copy into the output path. This is where you'll want to put your CSS. Note: the Markdown output will be using Pygments for code highlighting, so you'll need to add the appropriate CSS rules for it (see also: https://github.com/richleland/pygments-css).
The config.yaml file describes a dict with the following values:
- path -- Path for Benjen to output files (this can be absolute or relative from the blog directory)
- per_page -- How many posts to show per index page
- recent_posts -- How many elements to put in the recent_posts list for index pages
If you have issues, contact me at cody.brocious@gmail.com or use Github's issue tracker.