Jenny is a static blog generator. Its aim is to work with minimal requirements and a small footprint while providing some modern conveniences.
- Lightweight default theme
- Markdown with Footnotes support, care of a modified md2html.awk
- Basic pagination with fixed page numbers
- Plug your own Markdown parser
- Heredocs-based template syntax
- Draft/ignore support (by leaving out the date)
- Forward-posting, i.e. ignores posts with dates in the future
- Tags support
- Modifiable installation prefix
- Define run-time settings in command arguments
- Include static directories in build
- Unique URL slug generation
- Render only changed or new posts
- RSS/Atom feed
- Tests
git clone https://github.com/hmngwy/jenny.git
make install
2. Or, skip installation and use Docker, all references to the command jenny
is interchangeable with the below
docker run -it -v $PWD:/blog hmngwy/jenny:latest
The Docker image contains Multimarkdown 6 so you can have MARKDOWN_COMMAND="multimarkdown "
in your .blogrc
.
This repository is also the Github Action source, simply reference it in your Worflow steps, below is an example.
on: [push]
jobs:
build_job:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Build with Jenny
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: hmngwy/jenny@master
You can fork the hmngwy/jenny-template repo to start using jenny
without installing a thing.
Prepare the directory for your blog posts.
mkdir ./blog && cd blog
Use the subcommand below to initialize your blog folder with a .blogrc
file and a sample first post.
jenny init
A dated filename will be recognized as a published post, everything else is a draft and ignored, the format is:
YYYY-MM-DD a-published-post.md
Create a file with a date so that Jenny recognizes it as a published post.
cat <<EOT >> "$(date +%Y-%m-%d) hello-world.md"
# Hello World
Jenny is a static blog generator using bash, sed, and awk.
EOT
Run jenny
on your blog directory.
To override .blogrc
settings at run-time use command line arguments. Other options are also available, use jenny -h
to display the message below:
jenny usage:
-d ./dir Override the build directory setting
-p 10 Override posts per page setting
-l ./dir Override layout directory setting
-m mmd Override the markdown parser command setting
-v Display more information during building
-n Ignore the .bloglock file when building
-c Empty out the build folder prior to building
-h Show this help message
# Publish file with current date
jenny publish filename.md
# Edit file without typing date/full filename
jenny edit partial-filename
To configure posts per page:
POSTS_PER_PAGE=10
To use your own markdown parser, set MARKDOWN_COMMAND
:
MARKDOWN_COMMAND=multimarkdown
To run a script after the build process, write a post_hook
function in .blogrc:
function post_hook() {
echo "Done!"
}
To set a different build folder, set DIST
:
DIST=~/blog/.dist
To copy directories into the build folder:
STATIC_DIRS="images files"
Titles are Markdown H1s. Multimarkdown footnotes syntax supported in the vendored parser.
To use tags add the below into a post where tagname
is both filename and URL friendly:
tags: tagname anothertag
From the project folder, copy the layout folder contents and modify to your liking, mind the template tags.
cp -R ./share/jenny/layout ~/blog/.layout
Let Jenny know where to find your customized layout files.
cat <<EOT >> .blogrc
LAYOUT_DIR=~/blog/.layout
EOT
Sites built with jenny
.
Me - @hmngwy: manilafunctional.comsrc
Send a PR my way if you want to be on here.
To soft install or symlink into your bin folder, good for contributing/development:
sudo make sym-install [PREFIX=$PWD]
To install into a custom location do: make install [PREFIX=~/.local]
To uninstall, in the project folder run: make uninstall
- Layout inspired by n-o-d-e.net
- Some colors from Solarized by Ethan Schoonover
- Makefile inspired by moebiuseye/skf
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2024
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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