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20 pointsproudlygeek8 comments

Author here: Happy it can be useful to others :)

Right now i've only tested it with a local Ghost installation but theorically it should work with every blogging platform since it uses wget to fetch pages. Since it's basically a very silly and dumb shell script i didn't want to use something platform specific such as grunt / gulp / rake / whatever.

Feel free to give me your feedback about it (Bugs, Features, etc.)

Do you have a link to a live demo?

Yep, sure: http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/

Looks like the combination of histadeploy and ghost have garbled the about/cv/... links? I'm guessing ghost is set up to use some javascript shenanigans for display?

(Or perhaps those sections are empty by default...).

Anyway, nice little script, made me smile :-)

Thank you, glad to hear that :)

The CV / About / ... Links are actually just empty anchors...the example online is my WIP new blog.

If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...

But that assumes the files are available? Eg: it doesn't allow you to deploy a small mediawiki instance as a static site? (or any number of other smart/silly/useful/crazy uses for wget mirroring to disk, then copying)?

THANK YOU!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).

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