Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris, #2)
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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.
Nikola has had, since day one, a way to run in "auto mode". That means that it would rebuild the site automatically when it saw a file change. That was provided by doit the cool software that handles nikola's task tree.
The problem was that it was slightly limited, and it didn't notice configuration changes, or when you added new files. It only reacted to changes in things it already knew as dependencies.
Well, in v6, Nikola has a new auto mode courtesy of Python Livereload that fixes all that.
I think the best way to show it is with a video, so here it is (there are typos and such, just see the big picture ;-):
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.
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:
Disqus (just see below ;-)
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.
Thanks to Kwpolska and punchagan now Google+ and Facebook are also supported for comments.
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.
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.
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.
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):