Introduction
I’ve already covered some articles about automation with Travis-CI, GitHub, and one step that seems a show-stopper for many users when trying to build a website is on one side, the investment (domain, hosting, etc), the backend being used (WordPress, static generators, etc)…
While preparing a talk for a group of co-workers covering several of those aspects, I came with the idea to create Blog-o-Matic, implementing many of those ’learnings’ in a ‘canned’ way that can be easy to consume by users.
The approach
Blog-o-Matic, uses several discussed topics so far:
- Github and GitHub Pages for hosting the source and the website
- Travis-CI.org for automating the update and generation process
- ‘Pelican’ for static rendering of your blog from the markdown or
asciidocarticles - ‘Elegant’ for the ‘Theme’
- peru for automating repository upgrades for plugins, etc
The setup process is outlined at its README.md and just requires a few steps to setup that, from that point, will allow you to get your website published each time you commit a new document to the content folder.
You can also check the ‘generated’ website after installation via https://iranzo.io/blog-o-matic
Do not forget to update your pelican.conf file for fine-tuning and customization.
Enjoy! (and if you do, you can
Buy Me a Coffee
)