Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by imathis » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 8:47 PM UTC

Octopress 3.0 is coming
octopress.org

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by imathis » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 8:48 PM UTC

This is a post about what's badly wrong with Octopress 2.0 and how 3.0 is shaping up to be awesome.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by tbaschak » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 8:51 PM UTC

Been using octopress for a little over a year now, and this post sums up everything thats been a pain in the ass for me when it comes to upgrades/customization/etc.

HERE HERE! Can't wait for this to be out!

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by EthicsGradient » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 8:57 PM UTC

I love the whole idea of static site generators. Jekyll, Middleman, etc. They're hard things to "hand-off" to a client. I'd love to see more work going into an interface for content managers (make it easy for them to update basic settings, add content, etc.). Prose, and Siteleaf get at this a bit.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by imathis » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:04 PM UTC

EthicsGradient wrote: post #4

I love the whole idea of static site generators. Jekyll, Middleman, etc. They're hard things to "hand-off" to a client. I'd love to see more work going into an interface for content managers (make it easy for them to update basic settings, add content, etc.). Prose, and Siteleaf get at this a bit.

There have been people over the years who've been eager to build a GUI for Octopress. Without a good CLI it would be a huge pain. Many of the things I've been working on, should make it easier for that to happen.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by no_future » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:19 PM UTC

What is actually the advantage of using Octopress as a blogging framework instead of something like Tumblr/Wordpress, which are pretty much equally customizable?

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by teamonkey » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:20 PM UTC

EthicsGradient wrote: post #4

I love the whole idea of static site generators. Jekyll, Middleman, etc. They're hard things to "hand-off" to a client. I'd love to see more work going into an interface for content managers (make it easy for them to update basic settings, add content, etc.). Prose, and Siteleaf get at this a bit.

A friend of mine worked on this: http://www.jekyllnow.com/

Not quite the admin GUI you're looking for though; it's more for lowering the barrier to entry.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by imathis » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:21 PM UTC

tbaschak wrote: post #3

Been using octopress for a little over a year now, and this post sums up everything thats been a pain in the ass for me when it comes to upgrades/customization/etc. HERE HERE! Can't wait for this to be out!

I look at GitHub issues and I'm just afraid to mess with things. Even if I fix stuff, there's a high likelihood that it will break something else or be hard to update to. I too cannot wait to release this.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by walterbell » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:28 PM UTC

EthicsGradient wrote: post #4

I love the whole idea of static site generators. Jekyll, Middleman, etc. They're hard things to "hand-off" to a client. I'd love to see more work going into an interface for content managers (make it easy for them to update basic settings, add content, etc.). Prose, and Siteleaf get at this a bit.

There may be some ideas in Netobjects Fusion, http://netobjects.com

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by jeffbarr » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

Looks awesome. Now if there was a clean way to do incremental rebuilds and pushes, I would be very happy. Octopress is awesome until you start to accumulate hundreds or thousands of posts that must be regenerated and pushed to the target. The regeneration process is intrinsically serial at this point and does not take advantage of multiple threads or processes.