MojoPad

Static Publishing

Static Publishing turns your wiki into a website-and-blog: a folder of plain HTML you can host anywhere — Dropbox, GitHub Pages, any web server, no moving parts.

The Static palette: site settings, the publish button, and your posts.

Setting up (once)

  1. Open the Static palette.
  2. Give the site a title and (optionally) a tagline.
  3. Set the site URL if you know where it will live — the RSS feed uses it for absolute links.
  4. Choose… a publish folder. All of this is remembered per document.

Posting

Open any page and click ＋ Post in the Static palette. The page is stamped with the date and joins the blog. Posts list newest-first in the palette; ✕ Unpost takes one back. Pages don't have to be posts to be published — read on.

Publishing

Click ⌁ Publish Site (or File ▸ Publish Static Site once configured). MojoPad writes, silently and completely:

  • index.html — the blog home: your ten newest posts, in full.
  • archive.html — every post, one line each.
  • feed.xml — a valid RSS 2.0 feed of the latest twenty posts.
  • Every page in the wiki, published flat alongside — so when a post links to another page, the link works on the web too.
  • static.css — a clean, serif, readable design.
  • Your attachments (PDFs and friends).

Write, post, publish, sync the folder to your host. That's the whole pipeline.

What stays home

Encrypted pages, pages marked skip-on-export, and special pages (Template:, Event:, Plugin:, Clipping:) are never published.

Make it yours

Create a page named Template: Site containing your own HTML shell, using the tokens $content$, $pageTitle$, $siteTitle$, and $tagline$ — MojoPad pours each page into it. And if a page named Event: Publish exists, its script runs before every publish. See Scripting: Event Pages.

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