My personal blogging platform. Made with Flask. Uses simple command line tools to manage and publish posts. Supports tagging, drafting, and backing-up posts.

git clone git@github.com:nezaj/flask-blog.git
sudo pip install virtualenv
make virtualenv
source ~/.virtualenvs/blog/bin/activate
cd src
./sql.py build  # Build the database
./run.py  # Runs the development server

Now go to http://localhost:5000/ in your favorite browser. Huzzah!

From the root directory, use the following to generate a new post

v blog  # If you don't already have the virtualenv activcated
cd src
./manage_posts.py generate "Sample Post"

This will create a skeleton markdown file in the src/posts directory. To see a full list of options for the generate command type ./manage_posts.py generate -h

You can publish the file locally using the publish command

./manage_posts.py publish "Sample Post"

If you invoke ./run.py and go to localhost:5000 the post should now appear.

When you ready to publish it live set CONFIG_ENV to prod

CONFIG_ENV=prod ./manage_posts.py publish "Sample Post"

You can also publish posts as drafts (accesible by direct URL only) via

CONFIG_ENV=prod ./manage_posts.py publish "Sample Post" -d`

See the src/commands directory for a full list of commands