lift / cms_site

The Lift CMS Site

Lift CMS Site

The Lift CMS site is statically generated on push using https://telegr.am/ and lives at https://liftweb.net/ . The underlying engine behind Telegram is the hoisted static site generator, which is built on top of Lift itself.

Generating the Site

If you want to work on the site yourself, you can download the hoisted.jar file from telegram and then run, from the root directory of this repository:

$ java -jar /path/to/hoisted.jar site compiled

You'll then get a compiled directory with the HTML version of the site!

Releasing a New Version

There are a few steps that are currently manual when a new Lift release goes out, including creating an entry for the Lift version at happening/ and building and updating the API docs in api/.

Adding News

For now, adding news is just a matter of adding an appropriate file to happening/. “Appropriate” requires cloning an existing .cms.xml file and changing the bits that seem relevant. This will be more straightforward soon when Markdown support is merged.

Format

Currently all the documents in the site are .cms.xml files, which are files designed for hoisted to consume. However, hoisted will also happily work with Markdown files, as long as they're named .md. There are still a few hurdles before markdown files will be immediately usable for happenings.

cms_site's Issues

Dead link on liftweb.net home page nav menu

As reported by @mcandre on lift/framework#1601:

The Tickets site linked to from the Lift home page, in Resources > Tickets, seems to be down.

http://ticket.liftweb.net/

I believe tickets are now mainly tracked as GitHub issues, is this correct? If so, please change the menu link to point to:

https://github.com/lift/framework/issues

We should probably update that link.

'getting_started' page showterm link produces error

The following error is given in the terminal when loading the getting started page:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://liftweb.net/getting_started' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'http://showterm.io/99b90c9b85069e2b42c60'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

Seems like showterm is available on https, so can probably just switch the url.

Banno link is broken

The link to Banno should be https://banno.com/. Currently it is directing to a dead wordpress install.

Typo in modules pages

In the JQuery module description says "Lift JQurey module, that aomatically...", I guess there should be saying automatically.

Typo in modules page

Hi,

In the XMPP description, XMLL should be XMPP.