Re: Help with migrating blog to org-mode format

[Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>]

On 09/01/11 22:53, Myriam Abramson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After Google dropped the ftp option to blogger, I dumped my blog to an
> xml file with the hope of ressucitate it to a more friendly
> environment for me. I've found this environment with a combination of
> org-mode, blorg, and ... dropbox. Dropbox just provides me a link to
> publish my blog wherever I want to. Blorg isn't being maintained I
> believe and it has lots of error but it works in converting org-mode
> to blog formatting for now and I can work on it later.
>
> Each topic in a blog is a TODO task and the date is inserted when the
> task is DONE. I'm planning to read from my xml blog and write topics
> simply as "* DONE mytopic ... " but how can I get the publication date
> in org to get "CLOSED:<date>" on the next line?
>
> The xml of my blog is something like that:
>
> <title type='text'>  my title</title>
> <content type='html'>  my content</content>
> <published>2003-10-22T18:27:00.000-04:00</published>
>
> TIA,
>
> myriam

I use org in combination with Jekyll and jekyll.el. The process goes 
like this:

Create draft post using jekyll.el. This goes in the _drafts directory 
and isn't published. When it's finished use jekyll.el which modified the 
filename and moves it to the _posts directory.

Export my org files to html.

Run jekyll to create the web site and rsync it to my server.

My tutorial is on worg: 
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-jekyll.html

There are other ways to use org with jekyll, but this should give you 
some ideas.

Ian.