blog-generator's Introduction

Blog Generator:

Below are the procedures on how to use the blog-generator to create a new blog

Generating JSON file for the blog content

Inside the JSON file and filling in the details

HTML template changes and modifying all blogs

Generating JSON file for the blog content

Generate the json file to put the blog contents. Run new-blog.py and add the url to your new blog.

> python new-blog.py new-blog

This creates the file new-blog.json

Inside the JSON file and filling in the details

The generated json file will look as follows:

    {
        "url": "new-blog",
        "blog_image": "",
        "tags" : [],
        "title" : "",
        "body" : []    
    }

key	what to add	example
`url`	this is automatically generated
`blog_image`	a file name that exists in the blogs/images folder NOTE: only one image can be added to every blog post	"new_blog_image.jpg"
`tags`	a list of tags for the blog post	["android", "music", "travel"]
`title`	The title of the blog post	"New Blog"
`body`	The main content of the blog. Each paragraph should be a separate element in the list	["This is paragraph 1", "This is paragraph2"]

Creating the static blog page

Once filling in the json is completed, the next step is to generate the html file for the blog page. To do so, run add-blog.py and add the same url to your blog.

> python add-blog.py new-blog

The url to the new blog post will now be "website.com/blogs/new-blog>"

HTML template changes and modifying all blogs

In case you want to update the look of each page, it can easily be done by modifying the blog-template.template file. Once it is updated, you can easily update all blog posts by running