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New in Nikola v6 III: comment alternatives

2013-08-29 11:48

I am plan­ning to do a ma­jor re­lease (ver­sion 6!) of Niko­la my stat­ic blog and site gen­er­a­tor the next week­end. It's a ma­jor ver­sion be­cause there has been a ton of fea­ture work done. So, I will do a quick se­ries high­light­ing some of those im­prove­ments this week.

Today's Topic: Comments

Niko­la has sup­port­ed 3rd par­ty com­ment ser­vices since day one. Be­cause it start­ed as "some­thing that gen­er­ates my site", it sup­port­ed the com­ment sys­tem I was us­ing (and still am us­ing), Dis­qus.

There is noth­ing wrong with Dis­qus, and it will be the de­fault in v6, but if you want some­thing else... we got you cov­ered.

So Niko­la v6 sup­port­s:

All with just mi­nor changes in your con­fig. Be­cause of how it's done, all themes will sup­port all com­ment sys­tems with at most very mi­nor tweak­s.

If you know of any oth­er com­ment sys­tems worth sup­port­ing, just open an is­sue and I'll get them in.

UPDATE

Thanks to Kw­pol­s­ka and pun­cha­gan now Google+ and Face­book are al­so sup­port­ed for com­ments.

New in Nikola v6 part II: We Love Javascript

2013-08-28 20:09

I am plan­ning to do a ma­jor re­lease (ver­sion 6!) of Niko­la my stat­ic blog and site gen­er­a­tor the next week­end. It's a ma­jor ver­sion be­cause there has been a ton of fea­ture work done. So, I will do a quick se­ries high­light­ing some of those im­prove­ments this week.

Today's Topic: Javascript

So, Niko­la builds stat­ic pages. Like I of­ten say, that does­n't mean they have to be bor­ing. IN this re­lease, Niko­la's tem­plates are or­ga­nized in such a way that it's easy to cre­ate com­plex javascrip­t-based lay­out­s. Let's see an ex­am­ple.

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New in Nikola v6 part I: Typography

2013-08-27 19:09

I am plan­ning to do a ma­jor re­lease (ver­sion 6!) of Niko­la my stat­ic blog and site gen­er­a­tor the next week­end. It's a ma­jor ver­sion be­cause there has been a ton of fea­ture work done. So, I will do a quick se­ries high­light­ing some of those im­prove­ments this week.

Today's Topic: Typography.

Niko­la used to suck at this. It pro­duced sites like most web­sites: ab­so­lute garbage when it came to ty­pog­ra­phy. So, we fixed it.

Here is what a cer­tain sec­tion of A Study in Scar­let looked like when built us­ing Niko­la 5.5.1 (the cur­rent re­lease):

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Six Earlier Days (Every Day, #0.5)

2013-08-25 00:00

Cover for Six Earlier Days (Every Day, #0.5)

Review:

Ev­ery­thing good about Ev­ery Day is here, and ev­ery­thing bad is here too, both just small­er. So, 4 small stars.

You

2013-08-24 00:00

Cover for You

Review:

Any­one who has ev­er been in­volved in a long-lived project knows the feel­ing this book de­scribes. It's fun, it's de­cent­ly writ­ten, and it has that feel­ing. I liked it.
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