nikola - Online in the Cloud

PROGRAM:

NAME

Nikola - A Static Site and Blog Generator

SYNOPSIS

Create an empty site (with a setup wizard):
nikola init mysite

(You can create a site with demo files in it with nikola init --demo mysite)

Create a post (inside the mysite directory):
nikola new_post

Build the site:
nikola build

Start the test server and open a browser:
nikola serve -b

DESCRIPTION

Nikola is a static website and blog generator. The very short explanation is that it takes
some texts you wrote, and uses them to create a folder full of HTML files. If you upload
that folder to a server, you will have a rather full-featured website, done with little
effort.

Its original goal is to create blogs, but it supports most kind of sites, and can be used
as a CMS, as long as what you present to the user is your own content instead of something
the user generates.

Nikola can do:

· A blog

· Your company's site

· Your personal site

· A software project's site

· A book's site

Since Nikola-based sites don't run any code on the server, there is no way to process user
input in forms.

Nikola can't do:

· Twitter

· Facebook

· An Issue tracker

· Anything with forms, really (except for comments!)

Keep in mind that "static" doesn't mean boring. You can have animations, slides or
whatever fancy CSS/HTML5 thingie you like. It only means all that HTML is generated
already before being uploaded. On the other hand, Nikola sites will tend to be
content-heavy. What Nikola is good at is at putting what you write out there.

COMMANDS

The most basic commands needed to get by are:

nikola help
get a list of commands, or help for a command

nikola version [--check]
print version number

nikola init [-d|--demo] [-q|--quiet] folder
initialize new site

nikola build
build a site

nikola new_post
create a new post

nikola new_page
create a new page

nikola status [--list-drafts] [--list-modified] [--list-scheduled]
show site and deployment status

nikola check [-v] (-l [--find-sources] [-r] | -f [--clean-files])
check for dangling links or unknown files

nikola deploy [[preset [preset...]]
deploy the site using the DEPLOY_COMMANDS setting

nikola github_deploy`
deploy the site to GitHub Pages

nikola serve [-p PORT] [-a ADDRESS] [-d|--detach] [-b|--browser] [-6|--ipv6]
start development web server

nikola auto [-p PORT] [-a ADDRESS] [-b|--browser] [-6|--ipv6]
start development web server with automated rebuilds and reloads

nikola plugin [options]
manage plugins from the Plugins Index (https://plugins.getnikola.com/)

nikola install_theme [name]
install themes from the Themes Index (https://themes.getnikola.com/)

Use nikola help to get a list of all commands.

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