koriander 0.2.0

Koriander CMS gives you the web-based workflow of WordPress and combines it with the static site sleakness of Hugo

Koriander CMS

Koriander CMS combines static site generation like Hugo and a dynamic CMS experience like Ghost into one application.

Koriander is early stage and powers the author's personal blog at https://www.justus.pw. Read more about Koriander.

Try Koriander CMS

Here's how you can try Koriander CMS on your computer.

First, ensure that your computer can run the pipx. Learn how to install pipx.

Once pipx runs on your computer, install Koriander by typing the following command in your terminal.

pipx install git+ssh://[e-mail]/jwpconsulting/koriander.git

When the installation finishes, your terminal should print the following:

⣷ installing koriander from spec 'git+ssh://[e-mail]/jwpconsulting/koriander.git'  installed package koriander 0.1.0, installed using Python 3.13.12
  These apps are now globally available
    - koriander
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

Run the following koriander serve command in a new directory:

koriander serve

This should print a start up log and give you a log in link:

Log in with the following link:

http://localhost:8000/dev-login/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/

Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, koriander, koriander_user, sessions
Running migrations:
  Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK
  …
Log in with the following link:

http://localhost:8000/dev-login/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/

…
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production setting. Use a production WSGI or ASGI server instead.
For more information on production servers see: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/howto/deployment/

Open the http://localhost:8000/dev-login/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/ in your browser. You should now see the Koriander CMS.

When you first run the Koriander CMS, you should see a welcome message saying Koriander installed successfully.

Edit the current page by following the Edit page link in the top menu.

When you finish editing your page, render your entire Koriander CMS website with the render command:

koriander render

When you run koriander render in a terminal, it should print the following:

Writing static files to scraped_site/static...

157 static files copied to '/private/var/folders/k8/jnlz0xdn5jd48zttf3ktv7200000gn/T/tmp.BWupFFLrzH/scraped_site/static', 461 post-processed, 25 skipped due to conflict.
Static files collected to scraped_site/static
Seeding 0 redirect address(es)...
Seeding 6 URL(s) from sitemap.xml...
Rendered 404.html
Page has markdown body, but no summary, index.html
200 /index.html (from seed)
200 /robots.txt (from seed)
/Users/debian/.local/pipx/venvs/koriander/lib/python3.13/site-packages/koriander/views.py:221: UnorderedObjectListWarning: Pagination may yield inconsistent results with an unordered object_list: <class 'koriander.models.Tag'> QuerySet.
  paginator = Paginator(
200 /tags/index.html (from /sitemap.xml)
200 /index.xml (from /sitemap.xml)
200 /index.atom (from /sitemap.xml)
200 /index.atom.xml (from /sitemap.xml)
200 /redirects.json (from /sitemap.xml)
Crawled 7 page(s).
Render complete. Output in: scraped_site

koriander render outputs your site in a scraped_site directory.

You can upload this site directory to a static site host like GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, or Netlify.

Develop

Install everything:

uv sync

Test everything:

bin/test.sh

Format code:

bin/format.sh

Render:

uv run koriander render; python -m http.server -d scraped_site

Live preview:

uv run koriander serve