mattjcamp/r-website-builder

Markdown to static HTML website builder written in R

👋 Hi, I’m Matt

👀 I’m interested in UFOs, Coding, Data, and Writing

🌱 Working on rebooting my site How to Make iPhone Apps that I started in 2009

💞️ Interested in a bunch of other things like: sourdough bread baking, cooking, FPV drones, and taking long hikes in the woods where I solve the world's problems

📫 Reach me at

• [email protected]
• on Twitter @mattjcamp
• on my website https://mattjcamp.com

r-website-builder's Issues

Fix Title Substitution

This should use the txt file extension like the other tags.

Automate Blog Summary Page

Right now we need to add links to new blog posts by hand in the parent topic summary page. This should be automated to make blogging more approachable.

Add default favicon

Put a default graphic to show up in browser bookmarks

Image

Find a way to leave the image file extension instead of removing it. Having an image file without the extension makes it harder for social media sites to find an image to associate with a post. Also, we are going to start losing google image search results.

There needs to be a Content index Template

I would like to be able to have a page (like blog post) specific type of index template. That way a dataviz could import d3 while other posts do not need to.

Look at Template, Content approach and organization

I've reached a milestone here and it's fairly easy to set this up to autogenerate a blog. But, I should take a look at the consistency of the API (for lack of a better) word. How easily would this code be for someone else to pick up and use.

Does the template system make sense? Am I being consistent?

Automate Blog Type posts

Right now you have to add code to the R project each time you want to add a new post. It should be able to just look at the Content directory and do this automatically.

Title Tag

Add feature to automatically add blog titles to the index.html file.

Make Topic Level CSS override template

Custom CSS is control at the Template level, but each blog post can be different. If there is a style.css in a Content folder it should override the file in the Template

Locations?

I'm not sure how useful the locations object is and I'm debating removing this tomorrow.

RSS Field Not Copied Over

It doesn't seem like the rss.xml file gets copied over from the Content directory to the Staged directory.

Complete Overhaul Needed

I've using these scripts for a over a year to build blogs and things. With that experience, in particular with the types of things that change for each type of page on a site I think it's time to rethink from the bottom up the model I'm using to included HTML templates.

Most of the code can remain, but until the basic structure is settled I don't want to work on enhancements.

Automate RSS Feed

Right now I have to add new updates to the website RSS feed by hand. This should be automated somehow.