simpleblog is a blogging platform that is intented to be have a low barrier to setup and entry, and to make publishing blog entries simple and trivial to do.

It takes input as a series of MIME-type text files describing the entry and its content (see example-entries/) and applies gemerates an output of HTML, ready to be published (see publishers/).

A lot of the ideas for simpleblog are taken from a fellow blogging platform called constance. The primary purpose of this system is to provide extensibility via filters. Filters can be defined as submodules to alter the text as it is processed (such as converting from markdown to HTML).

To get started with the file publisher (writes to .html files), make sure all of the DEPENDS are satisfied and run:

publishers/file.py -f entry.txt -i

You can also run the publisher over more than one entry by specifying a directory:

publishers/file.py -d directory_full_of_entries/ -i

The published HTML file will be placed in the same directory as the input entry.

The -i option tells the publisher to write an index.html file in the same directory.