Simple/Obtvse/Svbtle clone on App Engine
Super easy clean and simple. BIGGERFASTERMORE presents blogging on Google App Engine
git it from github
This code is modified from Svbtle, Simple, and the jQuery drag and drop image uploader
This blog is run by the code in this post. It is HTML5, fairly minimal, and very simple. Posts are written in markdown, and image handling is done by google's image cloud. Download the repository, make your personalizations, load into App Engine Launcher, deploy and begin blogging.
- Change the following to make it work for you:
- change all of your info in request.py
- /static/images/logo.png is where your logo goes
- change 'biggerfastermore' to your own blog name in app.yaml
All of your admin activites are located at /admin/
The Best Part
Images are hosted using GAE's image service. Super fast, easy, and resizable.
To add an image, just drag it on to the page when you're editing a post. The necessary markdown to display the image will automagically appear at the end of the post
To delete an image, remove any mentions of it from the post. It will automagically be deleted from the server
To resize an image, add '=sXX' to the end of the source url For example, the following image:
Normal
http://lh6.ggpht.com/q4mdXHDOOVQpgm21hUcBrcIHKA_3Mn7OIRyUO63y9KuVhYa9H5cV08a3kJWznB6CII0dqSPGfxhvMe6pCIO884M4uNFoT3g
Medium
http://lh6.ggpht.com/q4mdXHDOOVQpgm21hUcBrcIHKA_3Mn7OIRyUO63y9KuVhYa9H5cV08a3kJWznB6CII0dqSPGfxhvMe6pCIO884M4uNFoT3g=s200
Small
http://lh6.ggpht.com/q4mdXHDOOVQpgm21hUcBrcIHKA_3Mn7OIRyUO63y9KuVhYa9H5cV08a3kJWznB6CII0dqSPGfxhvMe6pCIO884M4uNFoT3g=s100
image from Wikipedia