Metablogging
Posted: Fri, 1 July 2011 | permalink | 5 Comments
I’ve taken the plunge, and converted my blog from a venerable but largely unmaintain(ed|able) blosxom setup that I’ve had since 2005 (OMG!) into a new and shiny Jekyll-backed system. The main benefits are that I’m more comfortable hacking away at Jekyll (being written in Ruby), and my blog post submission no longer requires me to e-mail my blog posts to myself to put them up (that was just an artifact of how I set it up all those years ago, but it had worked so I wasn’t willing to change it just for the sake of it).
Jekyll’s superior (for me) hackability has reaped dividends already – I’ve put together a home-grown comments system, which fulfils my primary requirements of being as close to completely statically-generated as it’s possible to be (about 10 lines of PHP is the only dynamic content), and doesn’t involve JavaScript or putting my blog comments “in the cloud”.
UPDATE: I’ve finally released my static comments plugin; the announcement blog post has more details of what it is and how it works.
5 Comments
From: Vincent Bernat
2011-07-02 08:40
Hi Matt!
Your RSS feed contains incorrect links (.html is missing).
From: Matt Palmer
2011-07-02 09:33
Hi Vincent,
Thanks for letting me know about the bodgy RSS feed; I’m still getting some of the kinks worked out (the CSS is still all over the place, for example).
I think the problem you were seeing was that the <guid> tag was being (mistakenly) interpreted as a permalink; I’ve set isPermalink=false and double-checked that the <link> tag does have a correct-looking extension.
Please let me know if it’s still looking wonky for you.
From: Morgan
2011-07-13 05:02
Howdy,
Any chance of getting the code for your comments system? It sounds like it meets my requirements, too.
From: Matt Palmer
2011-07-13 09:47
Hi Morgan,
I’m actually in the process of cleaning up the code and documenting it to my (possibly excessively fussy) standards before I put up a blog post all about it. I’ll prioritise it more highly, and hope to get it out by the end of the week.
From: Matt Palmer
2011-07-19 13:31
Hi Morgan,
It wasn’t quite “the end of the week”, but I’ve just released my static comments plugin (the announcement blog post has more gory details about how it works).
Comments on this post are closed.