Hi Jan, The Sample Website for Code Modules demonstrates a simple "proto" blog <https://sample.codemodules.net/blog-home-1.html> with a single Blog module serving the content in a variety of ways. There's a list of recent blog posts (right sidebar), an index list of posts, and a single page with a single post. These all come from the Blog module serving the content in a variety of ways.
David's right - the main consideration is whether the features you wish need to be served by a database or whether a static site created at build time would work. Features like user comments and "likes" need a database backend. But other features could probably be created using Code Modules. Not very much comes out of the box -- you'd need to write them. Categories would probably involve adding Items to List files for each category when adding a new Blog post. I did something similar using Code Modules to create this page — ICC Forum Guidelines <https://iccforum.com/guidelines>. The exemplars at the bottom of the page have a categorization feature that allows each exemplar to be placed in the exemplar sets (they look like domino pieces) scattered higher up on the page. Each exemplar demonstrates multiple features for the guidelines, so the same exemplar is featured in multiple exemplar sets. That's analogous to a tags/categories feature on a blog site. Thanks for checking out the project. On Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 7:06:34 AM UTC-7 Jan Erik Moström wrote: > On 15 Sep 2021, at 9:38, David Donachie wrote: > > >> On 15 Sep 2021, at 06:29, Jan Erik Moström <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 7 Sep 2021, at 23:56, Christopher Werby wrote: > >> > >>> Announcing the release of Code Modules > >> > >> I'm quite impressed with what you have done here. Just to make sure > I've understood things correctly: this is a tool for creating web sites but > not for web sites with a blog? > >> > >> = jem > > > > That probably depends how committed you are to a static/DB-less site. > Long ago, before DBs were available, I had a blog that stored entries as > text files, but I wouldn’t advise it now, the security risks are scary! :) > > I'm mostly thinking of the extra work creating a blog, generating index > pages etc. I mean that there are a several static site generators (usually > with some kind of blogging support) like Pelican, Hugo, Nicola, Jekyll, > etc, that handles that automatically. Manually maintaining a site with a > fairly large number of blog entries quickly become cumbersome (if you want > support for categories, tags, etc), while it's easier to maintain a site > with a smaller number of pages (think documentation or a smaller info site). > > Since BBEdit doesn't have support for generating various kind of indexes > (that I know of), I was wondering if Code Modules have support for this. I > might have missed it but I didn't see any indication of this. > > = jem > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2b5e2ff7-2883-42ef-9225-ab18b7d66a8cn%40googlegroups.com.
