With o-blog you can create three kind of page classes regarding your needs. This article will describe the page classes and how to use them.

Snippets

A snippet is not a page on its own. Snippets are used to fill some parts of the templates or any other page using the ob:get-snippet lisp function. A snippet takes only 2 parameters in the file headers:

• title: Snippet Name: The insternal name of the snippet.
• type: snippet: this line defines the file as a snippet.

After the headers, you can put anything you want. The snippet content is processed during the publication and inserted into the pages that require that snippet.

To include a snippet into a page:

<lisp>(ob:get-snippet "About")</lisp>

Pages

A page is for a static HTML page output. This class is useful for single pages such as a site homepage. A page takes 3 parameters in file headers:

• title: Page classes: The page title
• type: page: this line defines the files as a single page.
• template: blog_static_no_title.html: This line defines which template to use for the publication.

After the header, you can write your page just like you want.

Articles

An article is the main page class you need for a blog. An article (or blog post) takes several parameters in file headers:

• title: Page classes: The page title
• type: article: this line defines the files as a blog post.
• category: blog: this defines in which category this post should go.
• tags: comma separated, tags, list: a list of tags related to the post.

The article page will be stored using the scheme: category/year/month/day-title.html. Within each directory an index.html is also created for easy navigation.

When publishing articles, both tags and archives pages are also generated.