Project Pages plugin for Nikola

This is a generator of project pages. It is based on meta fields in story files.

LIVE DEMO: https://chriswarrick.com/projects/

SOURCE FILES FOR THE ABOVE: https://github.com/Kwpolska/chriswarrick.com/tree/master/projects

Why use a plugin?

1. So someone can do the thinking for you.
2. So you can just create standardized files and have pretty subpages and indexes generated for you.
3. So many things are automated for you.

Usage

1. projects directory is the default directory for projects. You can change this by setting PROJECT_PATH to a different value:

   PROJECT_PATH = 'projects'

2. Create an entry in PAGES for your project directory, eg.

   ("projects/*.rst", "projects", "project.tmpl")

3. Create project pages in reStructuredText (or any other supported markup language).

4. Optionally create your own templates (some are provided with the plugin). The default templates include project.tmpl, project_helper.tmpl and projects.tmpl.

The default templates assume you use Bootstrap 3 and Font Awesome (which is not included in the default Nikola themes). You can alter the templates to use glyphicons if you want.

The plugin generates two files in each language:

• projects/index.html (or whatever PROJECT_PATH and INDEX_FILE are) — a HTML page with a slider and list of projects, from template projects.tmpl
• projects/projects.json — a JSON file, dict of {slug: all meta data}

Project subpage generation is handled by Nikola’s built-in pages framework.

Meta fields

• title — the project name in a human friendly form
• description — tagline or short project description
• previewimage — promotional graphics (used in slider and social networks)
• logo — project logo (used on the right side of the project page)

• devstatus (str/int) — Development Status. Use your own phrasing, or the following numbers to get nice formatting:

  1. Planning
  2. Pre-Alpha
  3. Alpha
  4. Beta
  5. Production/Stable
  6. Mature
  7. Inactive
  8. sort — sorting key, used for determining order. Defaults to 1, larger numbers first. Falls back to alphabetical sorting by title descending. Negative numbers not allowed.
  9. link — link to the project website
  10. download — main download link (eg. PyPI page)
  11. github — GitHub link
  12. bitbucket — BitBucket link
  13. bugtracker — bug tracker link
  14. gallery — screenshot gallery link
  15. language — programming language
  16. license — name of the license under which the project
  17. role — your role in the project. Free-form, sample values include Contributor and Maintainer
  18. status — featured to show in the slider, private to hide from the page
  19. Also: the post text is a full description of the project. You can put a README here. (Bonus points for using a .meta file for the metadata and a symlink to the actual README as the post, assuming you have good READMEs)

title, description, devstatus are required. previewimage is needed if status: featured is set. date and tags are ignored and not included in the JSON file.

Any other fields are not used by default — however, you can modify templates and include them. (Or, if you believe they will really useful to the general public, request addition in the plugins repo. The author of this plugin wasn’t very creative when coming up with the list.)

Suggested Configuration:

PAGES = (
       ("projects/*.rst", "projects", "project.tmpl"),
)
PROJECT_PATH = 'projects'

Issues? Questions?

You can report issues with this plugin and request help via GitHub Issues.