Lee Mendelowitz's blog

Repo for managing the content and deployment of my blog. This repo has a Makefile which will publish content to the gh-pages branch of this repo.

This I how I set everything up for myself. You can follow similar steps to get your own blog up and running.

Install dependencies

pip install pelican ghp-import markdown

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/LeeMendelowitz/blog.git blog
cd blog
git submodule init
git submodule update

Add content

Add an article to the content directory.

Generate the blog

The blog can be generated using the Makefile.

make html

This will store content in a directory called output.

Preview the blog

You can preview the blog locally by running the server and visiting http://localhost:8000.

make serve

Publish to GitHub Pages

These instructions are if you want to publish the blog to GitHub Pages. This requires that you first create a GitHub repo to host the blog. Then modify the GitHub repo settings to use GitHub pages.

Set up remote

Once you have your GitHub repo to publish to, add your GitHub repo as a remote. Call the remote "github". (Replace the URL below with the URL for your repo!)

git remote add github git@github.com:LeeMendelowitz/blog.git

Call the remote github as this is the name of the remote where the Makefile will try to publish.

To publish to the gh-pages branch of your GitHub repo:

make github

Now checkout your public blog url!