Lilac is Dead, a better tool is rux: https://github.com/hit9/rux
Lilac is a MIT Licensed static blog generator, written in Python. It's fast, simple enough and easy to use.
Latest version: v0.3.9
Documentation is already on readthedocs: English Version, 简体中文版本
News about lilac is here: http://lilac.hit9.org/
Note: If you are looking for a small and fast one, check out rux
- TOML and GFM based.
- 100% in Python (any linux distribution comes with python)
- Built-in Tags & Feed & Theme & Code Highlighting support
- We use Jinja2 to render templates.
- No categories, only tags. (It's A GOOD FEATURE!)
- Minimal configuration.
$ mkdir MyBlog
$ cd MyBlog
$ virtualenv venv
New python executable in venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.
Installing pip...............done.
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install lilac
A post is made up of two parts: header and body.
The header is in TOML and body is in Github Flavored Markdown, the two parts are separated with a '---' like separator.
title = "Hello World"
datetime = "2013-06-05 19:38"
tags = ["sample", "some-tag"]
----------
# Here is markdown content
To deploy a new blog in new-created directory:
$ lilac deploy
To build site from source to htmls:
$ lilac build
To remove all htmls lilac built:
$ lilac clean
To start a simple HTTP server:
$ lilac serve
To watch source changes the same time when the cute web server running:
$ lilac serve --watch
When you save your writings, lilac can detect the changes and start rebuilding.
To run lilac's server and rebuilder in the background:
$ lilac start
We can write blog with at most one shell session.
NOTE: ililac was removed in version 0.3.9, use lilac start|stop instead
You really should manage your theme in a standalone git repository, and use it as a submodule of your blog's submodule if your blog is under git versioning too.
For instance, add theme less
a submodule of your blog's repo:
$ git submodule add git://github.com/hit9/lilac-theme-less.git less
If you want to modify a theme created by someone else, just fork his(or her) repo, and then modify it.
But it's 100% ok to use themes not in the submodule way.
Theme list:
- classic - by @hit9
- less - a clean theme for lilac. by @hit9 (built-in theme)
- pure - a clean theme for lilac by @kshiftlv
Have you made one? Please send a pull request on lila's repo, append yours to this list.
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English version: http://lilac.readthedocs.org/
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简体中文版本: http://lilac-zh.readthedocs.org
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Installation troubles:
cann't find Python.h. Solution: install
python-dev
package (on ubuntu:sudo apt-get install python-dev
. There's no such issue on OSX) -
How to create a new post?
There's no command to do it, just
touch src/post/my-new-post.md
.
Found a bug? Have a good idea for improving Lilac? You can fork lilac's repo and then send a feature pull request, or you can open a new issue to report bugs, that will help all users. Welcome for your feedback.