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Chen Wang
Chen Wang
7,371 Points
Posted by Chen Wang
Chen Wang
7,371 Points

Creating a personal blog

I know that wordpress is a very convenient way to setup a personal blog.

I just find this blog. http://blog.penso.info

It seem not created by wordpress. I have some basic knowledge about both front-end and back-end. However, I can't figure out what technology it uses.

I mean how the blogger manage the content? It should has some content management interface, right? It doesn't make any sense if he modify the code every time to post a new blog.

Normally, for this type of blog, if I want to do some secondary development or modification, how to do it ?

2 Answers

Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith
2,072 Points
Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith
2,072 Points

It looks like he is using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. The blog is made up of static files that run through a processor that manages the dates and layout. As long as the posts have the correct file names they are placed in the correct sections on the blog.

Here is his source code.

It looks like Treehouse will be posting a course on this subject soon!

Chen Wang
Chen Wang
7,371 Points
Chen Wang
Chen Wang
7,371 Points

Cool. Many thanks for your help!

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Definitely Jekyll, which is really cool. There is no admin interface, there is no modifying code. You just create a new file for each post, write it in markdown, upload it to the server, and than Jekyll precompiles everything into plain HTML. Because you're basically serving a static HTML site, it's super fast, more secure, and really easy to manage.

Check out jekyll >> http://jekyllrb.com/

As far as hosting, builtwidth.com is saying it's hosted on Amazon AWS, and also uses AWS CDN. I believe with github pages, the url has to be in some form http://username.github.io

However, using github pages is free, and it is a popular choice to host their personal blog with pages and jekyll.