📝 Blog Post Manager

A desktop app to remotely manage blog posts on a server using Python, Tkinter, and SFTP. Supports creating, uploading, and deleting blog posts with metadata and image support.

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🚀 Features

• 🔒 Secure SFTP integration (via paramiko)
• ✍️ Add blog posts with images and metadata
• ❌ Delete old posts with confirmation
• 🖼️ GUI-based interface for ease of use

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⚙️ Prerequisites

Python Installation

Windows:

• Download from python.org
• ✅ Be sure to check "Add Python to PATH"

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install python3

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

📦 Setup Instructions

Clone this repository or download the files.

Install required libraries:

pip install paramiko beautifulsoup4

Create a config.txt file in the root directory:

hostname=your.sftp.server.com
port=22
username=your_username
password=your_password
publicFilePath=/path/to/your/webroot/

🖥️ Running the App

python3 blogUI.py

A window will open listing existing blog posts.

You can add or remove blog posts using the buttons.

📁 Server File Structure

/your/publicFilePath/
├── index.html
├── styles.css
├── posts/
│   ├── meta.json
│   ├── post_*.html
├── images/
│   ├── uploaded_images.jpg

Blog post metadata is stored in posts/meta.json

Blog content is stored as individual HTML files

Images are stored in the images/ folder