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| author | Matt Kosarek <matt.kosarek@canonical.com> | 2026-02-18 17:17:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Matt Kosarek <matt.kosarek@canonical.com> | 2026-02-18 17:17:07 -0500 |
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diff --git a/public/posts/hello.html b/public/posts/hello.html deleted file mode 100644 index 629ed69..0000000 --- a/public/posts/hello.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,774 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> -<head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> -<title>Hello, Org</title> -<meta name="generator" content="Org Mode" /> - -<link rel="stylesheet" href="/index.css" /> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="/posts/post.css" /> -<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> -</head> -<body> -<header> - <nav> - <ul> - <li><a href='/'>🏡 Home</a></li> - <li><a href='/resume.html'>📘 CV</a></li> - <li><a href='/posts/sitemap.html'>📝 Posts</a></li> - </ul> - </nav> -</header><div id="preamble" class="status"> - - <div class="org-article-title"> - <h1>Hello, Org</h1> - <a href="/posts/feed.xml">RSS Feed</a> - </div> -</div> -<div id="content" class="content"> -<div id="outline-container-org6bad422" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="org6bad422">TLDR</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org6bad422"> -<ul class="org-ul"> -<li>Create a new folder</li> -<li>Put <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattkae/matthewkosarek-xyz/master/index.css">index.css</a>, <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattkae/matthewkosarek-xyz/master/publish.el">publish.el</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/mattkae/matthewkosarek-xyz/blob/master/publish.sh">publish.sh</a> in the folder</li> -<li>Create a folder called <code>_posts</code> (this is where blog posts are written)</li> -<li>Create an org file in <code>_posts</code>, ideally with a <code>#+DATE</code> and <code>#+TITLE</code> attribute</li> -<li>Create a folder called <code>posts</code> (this is where blog posts are published to)</li> -<li>Put <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattkae/matthewkosarek-xyz/master/posts/post.js">post.js</a> and <a href="https://github.com/mattkae/matthewkosarek-xyz/blob/master/posts/post.css">post.css</a> inside of the <code>posts</code> directory</li> -<li>Run <code>./publish.sh</code> to generate the blog post files</li> -<li>Run <code>./python -m http.server 8080</code> from the root folder</li> -<li>Navigate to <code>localhost:8080/posts/sitemap.html</code> to see your posts</li> -</ul> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgc7f45b6" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orgc7f45b6">Introduction</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgc7f45b6"> -<p> -I've recently fallen in love with <code>org-mode</code>, specifically when I use it with <a href="https://www.orgroam.com/">org-roam</a>. I find the whole workflow of creating, tagging, and - later on - searching for information on my computer to be very elegant. On top of that, now that I have the time, I want to begin writing blog posts to better work out my thoughts. With both of these things in mind, I am again turning to the universal tool for human prospering: <code>org-mode</code>. This time, I want to see how it can help me turn a simple org file into a blog post on my website. My requirements are: -</p> - -<ol class="org-ol"> -<li>Org files must get published to HTML files in a particular format with a preset stylesheet</li> -<li>Code blocks must include code highlighting</li> -<li>Images must be supported</li> -<li>Posts must be timestamped with the creation date next to the title</li> -<li>A high-level "directory" page should be generated containing a list of the posts ordered chronologically with the newest at the top</li> -<li>Posts should have tags that can be used for filtering and search.</li> -</ol> - -<p> -And that's pretty much it for now. Without further ado, let's jump into getting this up and running. -</p> - -<p> -(Note: I will be heavily inspired by <a href="https://systemcrafters.net/publishing-websites-with-org-mode/building-the-site/#creating-the-build-script">this post from System Crafters</a>. I highly recommend that you read his post first before you follow my post, as he provides more details about the <code>org-publish-project-alist</code> command than I am willing to go into in this post.) -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orga3a87b9" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orga3a87b9">Basic HTML File</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orga3a87b9"> -<p> -As a pilot, we are going to use this org file that I am currently writing (<code>hello.org</code>) as our guinea pig. The goal is to have this org file be our very first blog post. -</p> - -<p> -Emacs ships with org export goodies out of the box via the <code>ox-publish.el</code> package (which you can find <a href="https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/org/ox-publish.el">here</a>). In our case, we will want to use this package to write a script that exports all the <code>./_posts/*.org</code> files and outputs them to a corresponding <code>./posts/*.html</code>. Leaning heavily on the System Crafters information, we can create a file called <code>publish.el</code> and write the following inside of it: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">ox-publish</span>) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html))) - -(org-publish-all t) -(message <span class="org-string">"Build Complete"</span>) -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -Next, in the same way that System Crafters made a shell script to execute this lisp, snippet, we can create a file called <code>publish.sh</code> and write the following inside of it: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-sh"><span class="org-comment-delimiter">#</span><span class="org-comment">!/bin/</span><span class="org-keyword">sh</span> -emacs -Q --script publish.el -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -We then do a <code>chmod +x publish.sh</code> to make it an executable and run it with <code>./publish.sh</code>. If everything went according to plan, we should see a new file at <code>posts/hello.html</code>. -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgf20d464" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orgf20d464">Disabling features that we don't want</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgf20d464"> -<p> -The next thing will be to remove some of the generated items that I didn't ask for, namely the table of contents, author, section numbers, creation time stamp, and the validation link. -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">ox-publish</span>) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html - <span class="org-builtin">:with-toc</span> nil <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable table of contents</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:with-author</span> nil <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable author</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:section-numbers</span> nil <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable section numbers</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:time-stamp-file</span> nil <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable timestamp</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:with-date</span> nil))) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable date</span> - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-validation-link nil) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Disable the validation link at the bottom</span> - -(org-publish-all t) -(message <span class="org-string">"Build Complete"</span>) -</pre> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgb6e0609" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orgb6e0609">Styling & Code Highlighting</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgb6e0609"> -<p> -Next thing on our list is custom styling. This can be achieved by first installing the <code>htmlize</code> package from <code>melpa</code> / <code>elpa</code>. The EmacsWiki describes this as "a package for exporting the contents of an Emacs buffer to HTML while respecting display properties such as colors, fonts, underlining, invisibility, etc" (<a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Htmlize">reference</a>). If used "out-of-the-box", the buffer will be exported to HTML with all of the styles inlined (e.g. if you underline something in your org file, you will generate a <code><span style="text-decoration: underline">...</span></code>). However, we are more interested in styling everything by ourselves: we don't want <code>htmlize</code> making assumptions about what underlining means to us! Luckily, <code>htmlize</code> gives us the option to export with class names instead of inline styles so that we can specify each style for ourselves. -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">ox-publish</span>) - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">First, we need to setup our publish.el file to hook up to melpa/elpa so that we can ensure</span> -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">htmlize is installed before we begin publishing.</span> -(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">package</span>) -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> package-user-dir (expand-file-name <span class="org-string">"./.packages"</span>)) -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> package-archives '((<span class="org-string">"melpa"</span> . <span class="org-string">"https://melpa.org/packages/"</span>) - (<span class="org-string">"elpa"</span> . <span class="org-string">"https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/"</span>))) - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Initialize the package system</span> -(package-initialize) -(<span class="org-keyword">unless</span> package-archive-contents - (package-refresh-contents)) - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Install dependencies</span> -(package-install 'htmlize) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html - <span class="org-builtin">:with-toc</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-author</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:section-numbers</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:time-stamp-file</span> nil))) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-htmlize-output-type 'css) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Output classnames in the HTML instead of inline CSS</span> -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-htmlize-font-prefix <span class="org-string">"org-"</span>) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Prefix all class names with "org-"</span> - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-validation-link nil - org-html-head-include-scripts nil <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Removes any scripts that were included by default</span> - org-html-head-include-default-style nil) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Removes any styles that were included by default</span> - -(org-publish-all t) - -(message <span class="org-string">"Build Complete"</span>) - -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If you run <code>publish.sh</code> and open the HTML page now, you will see that <span class="underline">zero</span> styling has been applied to the page. However, if you inspect an element in your browser that you <i>suspect</i> should have styling (like our underlined element from before), you will see that it has a class name instead of inline styles. -</p> - -<p> -Now that our generated elements have class names, we can define the style for each relevant class name. In my case, I want to include both the <code>index.css</code> file that my entire website defines (you can find that <a href="https://matthewkosarek.xyz/index.css">here</a>) so that there are some standard styles across the site. These standard styles include the font that should be used, the spacing around the <code>body</code> tag, the link styles, and other generic goodies. On top of that, we will want a custom stylesheet specifically for "post" files. In my case, I have defined the following in <code>posts/post.css</code>: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-css"><span class="org-css-selector">pre</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">background-color</span>: <span class="custom-21">#FEFEFE</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">border</span>: 1px solid <span class="custom-20">#D5D5D5</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">border-radius</span>: 2px; - <span class="org-css-property">padding</span>: 1rem; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">code</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">font-family</span>: <span class="org-string">"Consolas"</span> sans-serif; - <span class="org-css-property">color</span>: <span class="custom-19">#D0372D</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.underline</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">text-decoration</span>: underline; -} - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">/* </span><span class="org-comment">Taken from: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7629/the-syntax-highlight-and-indentation-of-source-code-block-in-exported-html-file</span><span class="org-comment-delimiter"> */</span> -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-builtin</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-18">#006FE0</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-weight</span>:bold;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-string</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-17">#008000</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-keyword</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-16">#0000FF</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-variable-name</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-15">#BA36A5</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-function-name</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-14">#006699</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-type</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-13">#6434A3</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-preprocessor</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-12">#808080</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-weight</span>:bold;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-constant</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-19">#D0372D</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-comment-delimiter</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-comment</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">1pre span.org-outshine-level-1</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-2</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-3</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-4</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-5</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-6</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-7</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-8</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-outshine-level-9</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-11">#8D8D84</span>;<span class="org-css-property">font-style</span>:italic} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-1</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-10">#707183</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-2</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-9">#7388d6</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-3</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-8">#909183</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-4</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-7">#709870</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-5</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-6">#907373</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-6</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-5">#6276ba</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-7</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-4">#858580</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-8</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-3">#80a880</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-9</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-2">#887070</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-sh-quoted-exec</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-1">#FF1493</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-css-selector</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom-16">#0000FF</span>;} -<span class="org-css-selector">pre span.org-css-property</span> {<span class="org-css-property">color</span>:<span class="custom">#00AA00</span>;} -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -That CSS file should get you going with some decent code highlighting and styles, but I don't pretend that it is complete. -</p> - -<p> -Finally, we need to tell org mode to include our two CSS files when the page is loaded. To do this, we can use the HTML <code><link></code> entity. We will set the <code>org-html-head</code> variable to insert two link entities at the top of the page. -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">ox-publish</span>) - -(<span class="org-keyword">require</span> '<span class="org-constant">package</span>) -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> package-user-dir (expand-file-name <span class="org-string">"./.packages"</span>)) -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> package-archives '((<span class="org-string">"melpa"</span> . <span class="org-string">"https://melpa.org/packages/"</span>) - (<span class="org-string">"elpa"</span> . <span class="org-string">"https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/"</span>))) - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Initialize the package system</span> -(package-initialize) -(<span class="org-keyword">unless</span> package-archive-contents - (package-refresh-contents)) - -<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Install dependencies</span> -(package-install 'htmlize) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html - <span class="org-builtin">:with-toc</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-author</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:section-numbers</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:time-stamp-file</span> nil))) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-htmlize-output-type 'css) -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-htmlize-font-prefix <span class="org-string">"org-"</span>) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-html-validation-link nil - org-html-head-include-scripts nil - org-html-head-include-default-style nil - org-html-head <span class="org-string">"</span> -<span class="org-string"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"/index.css\" /></span> -<span class="org-string"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"/posts/post.css\" /></span> -<span class="org-string"> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"/favicon/favicon.ico\" type=\"image/x-icon\"></span> -<span class="org-string"> "</span>) <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Include index.css and posts/post.css when the page loads</span> - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Note that I also set the "favicon" too, but this is optional</span> - -(org-publish-all t) - -(message <span class="org-string">"Build Complete"</span>) - -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If we run the publish again, we can see that we have full styling on our code snippets and everything else on our website. -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-org456f7f8" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="org456f7f8">Images</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org456f7f8"> -<p> -Our first two criteria have been met! Next on the list is solving images. As an example, let's use this <a href="file:///_posts/assets/squirrel.jpg">squirrel image</a> that I found online with an open source license. The ideal situation would be: -</p> - -<ol class="org-ol"> -<li>The squirrel image lives closely to this org document (<code>hello.org</code>)</li> -<li>We can reference the image file in our org file, and see it in our HTML page as an image</li> -</ol> - -<p> -Unfortunately, it doesn't look to be that easy. Let's examine the ideal situation. Let's say we provide a relative path to an image in our org file like so: -</p> -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-txt">[[./assets/squirrel.jpg]] -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If we click this link in our org buffer, the relative path will work right away. However, when we export the org file to HTML, the following tag will be generated: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-html"><<span class="org-function-name">img</span> <span class="org-variable-name">src</span>=<span class="org-string">"./assets/squirrel.jpg"</span> <span class="org-variable-name">alt</span>=<span class="org-string">"squirrel.jpg"</span>> -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -The browser cannot resolve this absolute path, which results in the alternate "squirrel.jpg" text being shown next to a broken image. -</p> - -<p> -So what's the fix here? Well, we have two options, but I am going to go with the easiest. For more information, check out <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14684263/how-to-org-mode-image-absolute-path-of-export-html">this stackoverflow post</a>. The route I chose puts the onus of making a proper link on the writer of the blog post. The fix simply modifies the <code>src</code> attribute of the generated HTML to have an absolute path to the image, while also allowing the org file to retain a link to the image that it understands. -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-TXT">#+ATTR_HTML: :src /_posts/assets/squirrel.jpg -[[./assets/squirrel.jpg]] -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -That's all there is to it! There are simpler ways as well, but that should do it: -</p> - -<div id="org04b7deb" class="figure"> -<p><img src="/_posts/assets/squirrel.jpg" alt="squirrel.jpg" width="300" /> -</p> -<p><span class="figure-number">Figure 1: </span>A Cute Squirrel</p> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgd7df786" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orgd7df786">Creation Date</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgd7df786"> -<p> -Let's add the creation date below the title next. To start, we will modify the publish command to remove the title (<code>:with-title nil</code>) and, in its place, show a preamble bit of HTML that contains a formatted <code>div</code> with the title and the "last modified" span.z -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html - <span class="org-builtin">:with-toc</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-author</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:section-numbers</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:time-stamp-file</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-title</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:html-preamble-format</span> '((<span class="org-string">"en"</span> <span class="org-string">"</span> -<span class="org-string"> <div class=\"org-article-title\"></span> -<span class="org-string"> <h1>%t</h1></span> -<span class="org-string"> <span>Last modified: %d</span></span> -<span class="org-string"> </div></span> -<span class="org-string">"</span>)) -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -The <code>html-preamble-format</code> variable takes an association list (alist) as a parameter. Each entry in the alist should have the export language (in this case english or "en") as the first value and the format for that language as the second value. -</p> - -<p> -The "%t" in the HTML string will be filled in with the title of your post. This is set by the <code>#+TITLE: MY_TITLE</code> attribute of your org file. In this case, that is "Hello, Org". The "%d" is used to insert the date of your post. This is set by the <code>#+DATE: <ORG_TIMESTAMP></code> in your org file. You can insert a timestamp into the buffer by writing <code>M-x org-time-stamp</code>, or by typing one out yourself. (Hint: You can do an <code>M-x describe-variable</code> and type "org-html-preamble-format" to get more info on what "%X" values you can include in this format). -</p> - -<p> -On top of this, we can modify our <code>posts/post.css</code> file to make the title a bit more pleasing to the eyes. -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-css"><span class="org-css-selector">.org-article-title > h1</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">margin-bottom</span>: 0; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.org-article-title > span</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">color</span>: <span class="custom">#707183</span>; -} -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If you want to see the full list of which values can be included in the <code>html-preamble-format</code>, you can do an <code>M-x describe-variable</code> on the <code>org-html-preamble-format</code> variable. -</p> - -<p> -Note that the downside of this is that the created date will change whenever you next save the buffer. This isn't a huge deal for my purposes, but you may need to come up with a more sophisticated mechanism for the exact "creation" date for your use case. -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-org6b24595" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="org6b24595">Generating the Directory</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org6b24595"> -<p> -For every org file in my <code>_posts</code> folder, I would like to create a link to the generated HTML file at the <code>/posts.html</code> page of my website. You can think of this as the "directory" of all posts. My criteria is: -</p> -<ol class="org-ol"> -<li>Posts should appear in order from newest to oldest</li> -<li>Posts should be searchable by tags (covered in the next section)</li> -<li>Posts should be searchable by title</li> -</ol> - -<p> -The "out-of-the-box" mechanism for accomplishing this is the <b>sitemap</b>. You can think of a sitemap as a directory of sorts. While sitemaps can grow to be infinitely deep (i.e. sitemaps referencing other sitemaps), we will keep our sitemap as a flat list containing the available posts in chronological order. -</p> - -<p> -To start, we can enable source maps for our publish like so: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:recursive</span> t - <span class="org-builtin">:base-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./_posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-directory</span> <span class="org-string">"./posts"</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:publishing-function:</span> 'org-html-publish-to-html - <span class="org-builtin">:with-toc</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-author</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:section-numbers</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:time-stamp-file</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:with-title</span> nil - <span class="org-builtin">:html-preamble-format</span> '((<span class="org-string">"en"</span> <span class="org-string">"</span> -<span class="org-string"> <div class=\"org-article-title\"></span> -<span class="org-string"> <h1>%t</h1></span> -<span class="org-string"> <span>Last modified: %d</span></span> -<span class="org-string"> </div></span> -<span class="org-string">"</span>)) - <span class="org-builtin">:auto-sitemap</span> t <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Enable the sitemap</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:sitemap-sort-files</span> <span class="org-string">"chronologically"</span> <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Sort files chronologically</span> - <span class="org-builtin">:sitemap-format-entry</span> (<span class="org-keyword">lambda</span> (entry style project) (get-org-file-title entry style project)) - ))) -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If we generate again, we will find two files generated: -</p> -<ol class="org-ol"> -<li><code>_posts/sitemap.org</code>: The org file containing the generated sitemap</li> -<li><code>posts/sitemap.html</code>: The HTML file that was generated based on the previous <code>sitemap.org</code> file</li> -</ol> - -<p> -If you open the <code>sitemap.html</code> file in your browser, you will see a bulleted listed containing a link to "Hello, Org". Clicking on it will bring you to this blog post. -</p> - -<p> -From here, you may customize it however you like. The following are my customizations. -</p> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgde34f50" class="outline-3"> -<h3 id="orgde34f50">Sitemap Title</h3> -<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-orgde34f50"> -<p> -I changed the title to "Matthew's Blog Posts". -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">defun</span> <span class="org-function-name">get-org-file-title</span>(entry style project) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> timestamp (org-timestamp-format (car (org-publish-find-property entry <span class="org-builtin">:date</span> project)) <span class="org-string">"%B %d, %Y"</span>)) - (format <span class="org-string">"%s created on %s"</span> (org-publish-sitemap-default-entry entry style project) timestamp) - ) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - ... - <span class="org-builtin">:sitemap-title</span> <span class="org-string">"Matthew's Blog Posts"</span> <span class="org-comment-delimiter">; </span><span class="org-comment">Change the title</span> - ))) - -</pre> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-org8eecd95" class="outline-3"> -<h3 id="org8eecd95">Format blog entries in the list</h3> -<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-org8eecd95"> -<p> -I like to include the creation date on the blog posts. To do this, we can use <code>org-publish-find-property</code> to find the date property of the org file. Afterward, we can format a string that includes our formatted timestamp and the <code>org-publish-sitemap-default-entry</code>, which is just a link with the title of the post. -</p> -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">defun</span> <span class="org-function-name">get-org-file-title</span>(entry style project) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> timestamp (org-timestamp-format (car (org-publish-find-property entry <span class="org-builtin">:date</span> project)) <span class="org-string">"%B %d, %Y"</span>)) - (format <span class="org-string">"%s created on %s"</span> (org-publish-sitemap-default-entry entry style project) timestamp) - ) - -(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> org-publish-project-alist - (list - (list <span class="org-string">"matthewkosarek.xyz"</span> - ... - <span class="org-builtin">:sitemap-format-entry</span> (<span class="org-keyword">lambda</span> (entry style project) (get-org-file-title entry style project)) - ))) -</pre> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-orgcb3d39d" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="orgcb3d39d">Tags & Filtering</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgcb3d39d"> -<p> -I use <a href="https://www.orgroam.com/">Org-roam</a> for all of my note-taking and, in the next blog post, I plan to demonstrate how I will hook up my Org-roam note-taking workflow to my blogging. In the meantime, just know that we can add tags to the top of our org files like this: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-org"><span class="org-org-meta-line">#+filetags: :tag_1:tag_2:</span> -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -This would tag this org buffer with "tag<sub>1</sub>" and "tag<sub>2</sub>". -</p> - -<p> -Our criteria for the tag filtering system is: -</p> -<ul class="org-ul"> -<li>A post can contain many tags</li> -<li>Users can filter my one or many tags (i.e. "home" <i>and</i> "technology" but <i>not</i> "lifestyle")</li> -<li>By default, users see all posts with all tags</li> -<li>Searching happens on the client</li> -<li>We don't have to manually maintain a list of valid tags. The list of valid tags should be dynamically loaded from the blog posts themselves.</li> -</ul> - -<p> -Let's modify the <code>get-org-file-title</code> function that we wrote in the previous section to parse and include these tags: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(<span class="org-keyword">defun</span> <span class="org-function-name">get-org-file-title</span>(entry style project) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> timestamp (org-timestamp-format (car (org-publish-find-property entry <span class="org-builtin">:date</span> project)) <span class="org-string">"%B %d, %Y"</span>)) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> tag-list (org-publish-find-property entry <span class="org-builtin">:filetags</span> project)) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> tag-list-str (mapconcat 'identity tag-list <span class="org-string">","</span>)) - (<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> result (format <span class="org-string">"%s created on %s\n#+begin_sitemap_tag\n%s\n#+end_sitemap_tag\n"</span> (org-publish-sitemap-default-entry entry style project) timestamp tag-list-str)) - ) -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -We extract the "filetags" from the org file, concatenate them into a comma-delimited string, and format them into the title string. We place the contents inside of a <code>begin_sitemap_tag</code> and <code>end_sitemap_tag</code> block. In HTML, this creates an enclosing <code>div</code> element with the class name "sitemap<sub>tag</sub>". That means we can target the <code>.sitemap_tag</code> element in CSS. In our case, we want to hide all of that data entirely so we can put the following in <code>posts/post.css</code>: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-css"><span class="org-css-selector">.sitemap_tag</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">display</span>: none; -} -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -If you rerun the <code>publish.sh</code> script now, you will see the tags only if you inspect the element, but they will not appear visually. -</p> - -<p> -Next thing is to write a small snippet of JavaScript that our page will load. This snippet is responsible for: -</p> -<ol class="org-ol"> -<li>Creating a list of the used tags</li> -<li>Creating enable/disable buttons for each tag</li> -<li>Hiding/showing a post depending on the state of its tags</li> -</ol> - -<p> -We create a new file called <code>posts/post.js</code> and put the following inside: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-js"><span class="org-keyword">function</span> <span class="org-function-name">main</span>() { - - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Gather the used set oof tags</span> - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagSet</span> = <span class="org-keyword">new</span> <span class="org-type">Set</span>(); - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">postList</span> = []; - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagContainers</span> = document.getElementsByClassName(<span class="org-string">'sitemap_tag'</span>); - <span class="org-keyword">for</span> (<span class="org-keyword">let</span> <span class="org-variable-name">index</span> = 0; index < tagContainers.length; index++) { - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">container</span> = tagContainers[index]; - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">pContainer</span> = container.children[0]; - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (!pContainer) { - <span class="org-keyword">continue</span>; - } - - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagList</span> = pContainer.textContent.split(<span class="org-string">','</span>); - tagList.forEach(tag => tagSet.add(tag)); - postList.push({ - container: container.parentElement, - tagList: tagList, - enabled: tagList.length - }); - } - - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Create the tag container</span> - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">contentContainer</span> = document.getElementById(<span class="org-string">'content'</span>); - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagContainer</span> = document.createElement(<span class="org-string">'div'</span>); - tagContainer.id = <span class="org-string">'tag-filter-container'</span>; - contentContainer.before(tagContainer); - - <span class="org-keyword">let</span> <span class="org-variable-name">numEnabled</span> = tagSet.size; - <span class="org-keyword">for</span> (<span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tag</span> <span class="org-keyword">of</span> tagSet) { - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagElement</span> = document.createElement(<span class="org-string">'div'</span>); - tagElement.className = <span class="org-string">"tag-filter-item"</span>; - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagElementLabel</span> = document.createElement(<span class="org-string">'span'</span>); - tagElementLabel.innerHTML = tag; - <span class="org-keyword">const</span> <span class="org-variable-name">tagElementButton</span> = document.createElement(<span class="org-string">'button'</span>); - tagElement.append(tagElementLabel, tagElementButton); - tagContainer.append(tagElement); - - - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Whenever a tag is clicked, execute the filtering behavior</span> - tagElementButton.onclick = <span class="org-keyword">function</span>() { - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Handle enable/disable</span> - tagElement.remove(); - - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (tagElement.classList.contains(<span class="org-string">'disabled'</span>)) { - tagElement.classList.remove(<span class="org-string">'disabled'</span>); - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (numEnabled === 0) { - tagContainer.prepend(tagElement); - } - <span class="org-keyword">else</span> { - tagContainer.children[numEnabled - 1].after(tagElement); - } - numEnabled++; - - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Filter</span> - postList.forEach(post => { - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (post.tagList.includes(tag)) { - post.enabled++; - - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (post.enabled) { - post.container.style.display = <span class="org-string">'list-item'</span>; - } - } - }); - } - <span class="org-keyword">else</span> { - tagElement.classList.add(<span class="org-string">'disabled'</span>); - tagContainer.append(tagElement); - numEnabled--; - - <span class="org-comment-delimiter">// </span><span class="org-comment">Filter</span> - postList.forEach(post => { - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (post.tagList.includes(tag)) { - post.enabled--; - <span class="org-keyword">if</span> (!post.enabled) { - post.container.style.display = <span class="org-string">'none'</span>; - } - } - }); - } - }; - } -} - -window.onload = main; -</pre> -</div> - -<p> -Next, we modify the <code>org-html-head</code> to include <code><script src='/posts/post.js'></script></code> so that this script is loaded on every blog post page. -</p> - -<p> -Finally, let's append the following to <code>posts/posts.css</code> so that our tag list is pretty: -</p> - -<div class="org-src-container"> -<pre class="src src-css"><span class="org-css-selector">#tag-filter-container</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">display</span>: flex; - <span class="org-css-property">flex-direction</span>: row; - <span class="org-css-property">column-gap</span>: 8px; - <span class="org-css-property">margin-top</span>: 1rem; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">display</span>: flex; - <span class="org-css-property">flex-direction</span>: row; - <span class="org-css-property">align-items</span>: center; - <span class="org-css-property">padding</span>: 0.25rem 0.5rem; - <span class="org-css-property">border</span>: 1px solid <span class="custom-5">black</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">border-radius</span>: 3px; - <span class="org-css-property">justify-content</span>: center; - <span class="org-css-property">column-gap</span>: 1rem; - <span class="org-css-property">background-color</span>: <span class="custom-4">#fffed8</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item button</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">background</span>: none; - <span class="org-css-property">border</span>: none; - <span class="org-css-property">outline</span>: none; - <span class="org-css-property">margin</span>: 0; - <span class="org-css-property">padding</span>: 0; - <span class="org-css-property">color</span>: <span class="custom-3">red</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">font-size</span>: 1.5rem; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item button:before</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">content</span>: <span class="org-string">'\00d7'</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item.disabled button:before</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">content</span>: <span class="org-string">'+'</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item.disabled</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">background-color</span>: <span class="custom-2">#f2f2f2</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">color</span>: <span class="custom-1">gray</span>; - <span class="org-css-property">border-color</span>: <span class="custom-1">gray</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item.disabled button</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">color</span>: <span class="custom">green</span>; -} - -<span class="org-css-selector">.tag-filter-item button:hover</span> { - <span class="org-css-property">cursor</span>: pointer; - <span class="org-css-property">opacity</span>: 0.8; -} -</pre> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="outline-container-org937024c" class="outline-2"> -<h2 id="org937024c">Conclusion</h2> -<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org937024c"> -<p> -There are many more customizations that I plan to do on this system in the future, but I plan to leave this for now so that I can actually get to some blogging. I will proofread and fix my mistakes as time goes on, but this should be a good jumping off point for anyone interested in using org for their own blogging system. -</p> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</body> -</html> |