SimpleHack is a fork of Simple with a few customizations .
Simple is very easy to get up an running:
git clone https://github.com/silshack/simplehack.git
cd simplehack
pip install --user -r requirements.txt
python create_config.py --fresh
python simple.py
And you're good to go
~ Simple
A clone of [Obtvse](http://github.com/NateW/obtvse).
~ About
The point of Simple is to be simple. The blog is 1 file (excluding resources)
with a few simple pure-python dependancies (Flask, Sqlalchemy, Markdown), it doesn't
require a database server, has a small footprint and is very fast (Can easily
handle 300+ requests per second).
Features
* Markdown goodness, no clutter or fuss when writing your posts
* Lightweight and simple
* Supports Disqus comments, Google Analytics and custom fonts (from google's font library)
* Drag and drop uploads
* Includes several Markdown extensions:
* [CodeHilight](http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/code_hilite.html)
* [Fenced Code Blocks](http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/fenced_code_blocks.html)
* [Table of contents](http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/toc.html)
Installation ~ Its quite simple. Go download Python 2.7+, clone this repository
and then run 'pip install -r requirements.txt'. Then create a settings file by
running create_config.py and then run simple.py. If you want to add a favicon
to your blog then drop one (make sure its called 'favicon.ico') in the static
folder and restart simple.
~ Updating
Updates to simple may add, remove or alter settings. Simple ships with a
script called create_config.py which can update settings files with changes.
To do this run "create_config.py" again and you will only be prompted for
settings that are not present in the existing settings.py file.
~ Deployment
Deploying Simple is easy. Simply clone this repo (or your own) and install
[Gunicorn](http://gunicorn.org/). Then cd to the directory containing simple.py
and run the following command: ``gunicorn -w 4 simple:app`` This will start 4
gunicorn workers serving Simple. You can then use nginx or apache to forward
requests to Gunicorn.
Example ~ You can see my blog running this software [here](http://tomforb.es/simple).
Screenshots ~
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