Russell
A static HTML site generator written in Python 3.
Installation
The recommended way to install Russell is to use uv:
$ mkdir /home/myuser/blog
$ cd /home/myuser/blog
$ uv init
$ uv add russell
Once that's done, you can either manually create the required files, or let Russell set up an example project for you:
$ uv run russell setup .
Usage
russell setup will set up an example configuration file and directory
structure in the current working directory to get you started.
Creating pages/posts
russell new page "My Test Page" will create the file 'pages/my-test-page.md',
which you can then open in your favourite text editor. The process is the same
for russell new post. You can change the filename yourself to modify what the
resulting .html file will be named.
Generating the blog
russell generate will run the generate function in your config.py, which
should contain all the instructions for generating HTML and other assets.
To test your newly generated site, run russell serve.
Templating
Jinja2 is used as a templating engine, and all its features are present.
Read the Jinja2 documentation here: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
root_url has been added as a global variable, which you can use for generating
URLs in your template.
The "index" and "archive" templates have the posts variable available. The
"post" template has the post variable and "page" has the page variable.
posts is an array of Post objects, the others are a single instance of
either Post or Page.
License
The contents of this repository are released under the GPL v3 license. See the LICENSE file included for more information.
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