Re: An Org-mode-based blogging engine?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2023-05-08, at 12:36, Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> Hi,
>>>>>> "Marcin" == Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>     Marcin> fully Org-mode-based workflow.  Ideally, I'd like to be able
>     Marcin> to do everything - including publishing the posts - from
>     Marcin> within Emacs.
>
>
> I use webpage generation (including blogs) using Jekyll. Since I wanted
> to stick to org, all is set-up in a way, that the ``content'' including
> the blogs is done in org, and then do ``org-publish'' to generate stuff
> as fit for consumption for jekyll and the workflow then continues from
> there (basically just invoking jekyll to ``publish'' the stuff). jekyll
> expects its content in md, but I feel more comfortable with org.
>
> That leads to a two stage thing: first translate org to md (by an
> appropriate org-publish set-up) and then generate the web-page from the
> md-files. So it's not all org-workflow, but once it's set-up, it's
> basically only org as far as content is concerned.
>
>
> Fine points apply, as jekyll has a lot of moving parts and
> configurations. And possible pictures and graphics etc. is also not ``in
> org''- And actually, the org-files I am using have some jekyll-specific
> md-prefix between
>
> +begin_export markdown
> +end_export
>
> to tweak things for jekyll. But the org-part is easy, and for me it
> works smooth. 
>
>
> In a different response, HUGO was mentioned. I don't have experience
> with HUGO, but it's probably comparable to jekyll.

Thanks.

In fact, a few years ago I researched both Hugo and Jekyll and for some
reason I can't remember now I settled on Hugo.  (That project is long
dead, btw.)  Since a few people recommended Hugo to me, I guess I'll go
with that.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl