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NAME

plerdall - Publish an entire Plerd blog from source

SYNOPSIS

In /path/to/plerd/conf/plerd.conf:

 base_uri: http://blog.example.com path: /home/me/Dropbox/plerd title:
 My Lovely Blog

And then, on the command line, while in the top-level plerd directory:

 bin/plerdall

Oh, you don't have a Plerd blog at all yet? Then you can try this first:

 bin/plerdall --init=/home/me/Dropbox/plerd

DESCRIPTION

Run in its default mode, this program directs Plerd to completely publish a blog, once, based configuration. If the blog's already been published, then it'll get wholly and freshly republished.

This program can perform other one-off Plerd-related tasks, as well, as directed by command-line options provided to it. See "OPTIONS", below.

For instructions on installing and using Plerd, please see the README file that should have accompanied this distribution. It is also available online at https://github.com/jmacdotorg/plerd#plerd.

OPTIONS

config

 bin/plerdall --config=/path/to/plerd.conf

Specify the location of a valid Plerd config file.

If not specified here, then this program will seek a config file in these locations, and in this order:

  • plerd.conf, in the current working directory

  • conf/plerd.conf, in the current working directory

  • .plerd, in your home directory

Consult the config file generated by plerdall --init to learn more about the config file format.

init

 bin/plerdall --init

 bin/plerdall --init=/path/to/new/plerd/directory

This command sets up a new working directory for a Plerd-powered blog. It will contain default templates, workspaces, and config files.

If given a path, it will try to create the directory if one doesn't already exist there. If the path already exists, plerdall will check that it is an empty directory.

If not given a path, plerdall will default to ./plerd, and then proceed as above.

This program will print either error text or a welcoming success message with followup suggestions to STDOUT, and then exit. It will not perform any blog publication beyond this initial setup.

EXPERIMENTAL OPTIONS

All of the following Webmention-related options are experimental.

send-webmentions

 bin/plerdall --send-webmentions

After publishing all the blog's posts, Plerd will then direct every post to scan itself for hyperlinks and attempt to send webmentions to each one.

process-webmentions

 bin/plerdall --process-webmentions

Before publishing all the blog's posts, Plerd will check to see if any new webmentions are waiting in its webmention-inbox. If so, it will process those webmentions. Then, if at least one of those received webmentions is valid, Plerd will republish all the blog's posts. If neither of the prior conditions are true, Plerd will not republish the blog.

This flag makes plerdall suitable for use as a scheduled task, via e.g. cron.

rebuild-webmentions

 bin/plerdall --rebuild-webmentions

Before publishing all the blog's posts, Plerd will re-verify every valid webmention that the blog has received and stored over its history, overwriting its old webmention database with the results. Then it will republish all the blog's posts.

The script rate-limits itself to one verification request per second, so this might take a while.

This is a utility function intended for use if the serialization format for Plerd's webmentions changes. You probably won't need to use it often, if ever.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Jason McIntosh <jmac@jmac.org>