orf / simple

Simple is a clone of Obtvse written in Python running on Flask.

Simple

No longer maintained - I switched my blog to Gatsby, see https://tomforb.es/goodby-simple-hello-gatsby/ .

Simple is as a Python-powered markdown blog. You can see an example running on my blog. The editor is an expanding textarea and you can upload images by dragging and dropping them onto the page, and ctrl+s saves the post.

You can also add a header image to any post by selecting the image icon in the top right. This lets you browse through the latest Bing daily images, and in the future you will be able to upload your own.

Quickstart:

It's supposed to be easy to set up Simple. If you don't think it is then open a ticket and let me know. Simple is designed to be served via Gunicorn, behind nginx. You can optionally use supervisord to manage the gunicorn processes.

You need Python 3.4, and simply follow the commands below (nginx on Ubuntu uses /sites-available/ instead of /conf.d/):

>> mkdir blog && cd blog
>> python3.4 -m venv env
>> source env/bin/activate && pip install simpleblogging gunicorn
>> simple create
>> nano simple_config.py
>> simple nginx_config yoursite.com --proxy_port=9009 > /etc/nginx/conf.d/simple.conf
>> simple supervisor_config env/ 9009 >> /etc/supervisord.conf
>> chown -R nobody:nobody ../blog
>> supervisorctl start simple && service nginx reload

simple's Issues

Google Fonts Support in layout.html

I think that in lines 26 and 33 you want to include |replace('+', ' ') after the FONT_NAME variable (at least this is what I have to do to get the font Droid Serif to render correctly.

Favicon

Implement a way to serve a favicon. (with caching headers, like the css now does)

Mobile admin backend

Mobile admin backend

Would be nice to be able to have a nice UI when writing a blog post with mobile.

Edit a post and the post is in the top of the blog list

Edit a post and the post is in the top of the blog list, annoying when only fixing spelling errors in a post.

Post edit textarea goes behind bottom bar

When writing a long post and the text reaches the bottom it goes behind the bottom bar with the post options on it.
Either the bar needs a button to hide/show it or the page needs to start scrolling when the text reaches the top of the bar.

https, put it in settings?

I added https to my blog, had issues with "http" being hardcoded everywhere. ( font css, disquss etc)

Put it in settings, or can we get it http/s in a better way?

Can't log into /admin, and I found why

In create_config.py, password is hashed by func 'generate_password_hash'.
but in simple.py, password is unhashed by func 'md5'.

in my environment, it make me cant login.

Font needs to be specified in the config file

Work out a way to set the font in the config file instead of hard coding it into the CSS files.

Add setup.py to version control

The project URL in the current setup.py isn't correct but I can't provide a pull request as setup.py isn't under version control.

install problem

Flow you readme met this error. System ubunut14.10

supervisorctl start simple
Error: .ini file does not include supervisorctl section
For help, use /usr/bin/supervisorctl -h

the created supervisord.conf like this, have no supervisorctl section

[program:simple]

environment=PATH="/home/ikfb/Git/blog/env/bin"
user=nobody
autostart=true
autorestart=true
killasgroup = true
redirect_stdout=true
redirect_stderr=true

Improve preview support

Currently to preview a post a new window is required. Some ajaxy/jquery goodness could replace the editor with a preview of the post as opposed to a clunky window that doesn't update.

simple: ERROR (no such process)

Hi, I followed everything and I am getting the following error: simple: ERROR (no such process)

Some information:

(env) root@noided:/usr/share/nginx/www/blog# uname -a
Linux noided 3.18.7-v7+ #755 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 17:20:48 GMT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

Running this on a RPi with raspbian

New features

Image uploads
Little paperclip on the edit page where you can upload images and have the resulting URL copied into the clipboard.

History
Some form of post version control?

Instant preview
Maybe split the editing page into two halves, one with the text box and one with a live preview using JavaScript to render it, or if not then render server side?

Needs to handle posts with the same title gracefully

Currently we don't check to see if there are any posts with the same title (and the same slug) when we save a post, which can lead to IntegrityError exceptions.
This should be handled somehow, perhaps telling the user to choose a different title or to generate a different slug?

Silly issue

It's great to see a port of svbtle/obtvse to python and flask and someone committed to it and doing a good job. I might take a look into it later since I'm trying to learn more about flask.

I'm just posting this issue to make you notice that on the 3rd screenshot you have, there is still a "Powered by obtvuse". Since I didn't knew if it was supposed to be that way, I ended up posting this.

cheers

SC:

Cannot save post body

I've tried both the version installed from pypi and the github master branch but I get the same problem in both.

No post body is being saved. I can type the body into the "form" on the web page but there is no submit button and if I just hit return a few times, click outside on the page and then preview I cannot see any body.

I peeked inside the sqlite db and no body is being saved. Am I missing something? How do I make this blog save the actual blog post?

Markdown icon vanished. :( Make it useful instead!

What's the issue?

@orf removed the little Markdown Icon besides the text. I assume it was because it served absolutely no purpose. Makes sense.

So why am I making a fuss about it? (read: submit an issue)

I propose to bring the icon back but make it clickable and on click display a lightbox with a markdown syntax reference similar to the one on github when you press "m" outside of a textfield.

Thoughts?

post.created_at should not be updated in def edit(post_id)

Line 215

    post.created_at = datetime.datetime.now()

The created_at will be changed, although the posts will appear first, the original created time will be broken, and will never be seen in the view page.

Without this, after updating a posts, we can see the create time and update time. But after this, we can never see the real create time, and due to the two time are the same, we can not see the update time.

Mobile support

This is carried over from Obtvse, but support of this on iphone is horrible. not a web dev, but can any changes be made?

Settings variable "BLOG_URL" is only used in index.xml

Somehow the variable "BLOG_URL" is not being used anymore except in the index.xml and I'm not sure it's even neede there nor am I sure that it's being properly used.

@orf can you take a quick look at it?

Installation

Hi

It would be helpful to mention the "markdown" Python package requirement in README's installation section.
Or simply refer explicitly to requirements.txt.

Apart from that, cheers and thanks!

Add caching to style.css and implement a favicon

Currently style.css is served by flask and has no caching. Add some form of caching.

License question?

This isn't as much an issue as it is a question of what the license is simple released under? The reason I ask is that I've been playing around at adapting simple to be a static site generator, but I just realized I don't know what license the code is under.

Heroku & Database

Not able to use PostgreSQL database in place of SQLite