What it is

The content is written in Markdown, a super simple text with super simple markup. A lot of cool people like it because it's easy and enjoyable to write in.

The template used is Smarty, mostly because it's a well written PHP templating engine with some good basic functionality built in.

The included template is the Twitter Bootstrap, because it's well written and conforms to specs pretty well.

You can install it like this:

1. On my server: git clone https://github.com/saibotsivad/smartstrap.git ~/public/www/mysite.com
2. ...
3. Profit?

Customize

• Change the $info variable inside ./index.php to whatever you want.

These variables are only used in the template, so you really can put anything in there you want.

• Put your own content in the ./content folder.

Any file with the .md extension is markdown. The extra bits at the top are available inside the template, so title: How to Use is in the template as {$title} and shows as How to Use.

• Templating uses smarty, and the template files are in ./template

Be More Awesome

Host your blog on github, then clone it as the content folder. May have to symlink it, if your naming is different. Or just fork this and put your content in it, I guess. I'll be using it on my [labs][research blog] here as soon as I convert all the WordPress to Markdown.

Magic

There's some magic going on to give you a posts vs pages thing. You don't have to play along, but here's how it works:

Links like site.com/bydate/2013/12/24/christmas-time will map to ./content/bydate/2013-12-24_christmas-time.md

All other links will map like site.com/any/folder/depth to ./content/any/folder/depth.md

Right now the list of posts is displayed anywhere by putting the tag archive_list in the markdown file, with anything as the value of the tag (see [here][archive] for an example).

License

All code and content released under the Very Open License.