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How to make a Wolfram blog?

Posted 6 years ago

Hi, I would like to create a blog mainly for the purpose to demo small data explorations with WL. I would like to use my personal website for the purpose (not cloud notebooks which are of course a simple solutions). Does anybody know what is needed to achieve something to https://blog.wolfram.com with posts generated from WL notebooks.

Currently I use generated pdf's in wordpress, but it's not all that useful for readers who would want to try code.

Any new features in WL12 I could use?

POSTED BY: Fabian Wenger
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Posted 6 years ago
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POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Hi Vitaly, all very convincing reasons and I will certainly also use the Wolfram community and cloud in the future for a wide and highly competent audience. Thanks for the good links.

POSTED BY: Fabian Wenger
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Calle E

Thanks a lot for the prompt answer Calle. I will try to install the "Classic Editor" plugin and use your package.

Your blog looks great, exactly what I was looking for!

POSTED BY: Fabian Wenger
Posted 6 years ago

If you do, feel free to ask me as many questions as you want.

POSTED BY: Calle E
Posted 6 years ago

I have made a package that can export notebooks to WordPress, which is also how the Wolfram Blog works. I have described my package here:

http://wolframlanguagereviews.org/2018/10/28/posting-notebooks-to-wordpress

You can see an example of an article here:

http://wolframlanguagereviews.org/2018/08/09/domain-decomposition-method-using-graph-coloring

You can get the package here:

https://github.com/cekdahl/wl-wordpress-xmlrpc-client

Unfortunately, it's not particularly easy to set up or use at the moment. WordPress 5 brought with it a regrettable change, the Gutenberg editor, which is incompatible with this approach because it doesn't let you store custom HTML. It will always try to change the HTML for you, even if you don't want it to. I solved this by installing a plugin which disabled the new editor and reverted to the one in WordPress 4, but even here there is the caveat that you must never use the WYSIWYG editor because if you do it will mess with the HTML.

To sum it up, I have written a solution that works well for me but it is not yet easy for others to use so you have to be prepared for some trouble if you decide to use it. So far, I know of one other person who has successfully installed it.

POSTED BY: Calle E
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