Disclaimer: ThePost is just at the beginning of its development; bugs may happen, display may be a bit odd.

What is ThePost?

ThePost, found at thepost.io, can be seen as a blog engine, but it's more subtle than that.
It's a publishing playground where the authors keep full control and ownership of their work. How? Simple, we don't store your content, actually, we don't even cache it!

What do you mean?

ThePost relies on Github, if you publish your articles in a certain ways there, they show up here, with a nice display, nice URL to share, SEO support, etc. Note that ThePost is by no means associated with GitHub, it just uses some of its features.

How do I make content available on ThePost?

Here is the basics, we'll get into the details later:

1. Fork this repo (keep the name thepostio-content, it's important)
2. Have a look at the structure, you will see it's quite minimalistic
3. Open the file config.yaml (in root folder) and replace the values with your own
4. Create a folder in articles/ for your fist article, using only lowercase letters and dashes instead of spaces. This folder's name will be part of the final URL of your article
5. Create a file index.md that contains a YAML front matter
6. Edit the fields of the front matter (between --- and ---)
7. Under the second ---, write your article in markdown syntax
8. Optionaly, if you want this article to show up in your profile page listing, add its folder name in the file config.yaml that you can find at the root of this repo
9. Commit and push that on your GitHub repo
10. Visit https://thepost.io/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/YOUR_ARTICLE_TITLE_SLUG

Example: if your username on GitHub is johnnybravo and the folder name of your article (lowercase + dashes) is my-fabulous-article, then you can see and share your article at:
https://thepost.io/johnnybravo/my-fabulous-article

And here is how the index.md file of your article should look like:

---
title: Dummy article
date: 2020-08-23
excerpt: This is a dummy article
cover: dummycover.jpg
tags:
  - test
  - dummy content
---

This is a dummy article.
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Note: any image URL (including the cover field in the front matter) can be local to your article folder (example: myimage.jpg) or absolute (example: https://example.com/myimage.jpg)