setup.md

Setup

1. Fork Simblog

2. Go to project settings and Rename your project to a name of your choise.(most people would chose blog)

3. Next, in settings select option to publish Github pages

4. Clone your project locally using

git clone [email protected]:<username>/<repo>.git

5. At this point you can use your favorite editor to start your blog. I will suggest using Atom or VS Code for best blogging experience.
6. Before we beging setting up our editor for blogging make sue you have python and pip installed in your system and run the following command

pip install -r _scripts/requirements.txt

7. Since I prefer atom text editor for this blogging purpose, I would explain how to set it up.
   • if you know what is apm and have installed it you can run the following command

   apm install --packages-file atom-package-list.txt

   • if not, press CTRL+SHIFT+P in atom and type install packages and themes and install following packages one by one

     busy-signal
     date
     intentions
     language-markdown
     linter
     linter-markdown
     linter-ui-default
     markdown-image-paste
     markdown-pdf
     markdown-preview-enhanced
     markdown-toc
     markdown-writer
     platformio-ide-terminal
     script
     tidy-markdown
     tool-bar
     tool-bar-markdown-writer
     

   • Restart Atom
   • At this point if you open a markdown file it should look like this
8. We will use python to help us, and to auto run python in atom we will use script plugin. you can see the shortcut like this:
9. That's it, your setup is done

New post

Open new_post.py and press CTRL+SHIFT+B(or run this script with the shortcut we saw) You will see this UI Now you can see a file generated in _posts folder

And now your can write your post

Publish

Run _scripts/publish.py and thats it, you will see this message