Re: Writing for Blogger, including images

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Thank you, Samuel. I'm not sure what all this is. It appears to be 
snippets from various file and info topics. But I'll go through it more 
carefully.

Thank you.
-pd


On 12/24/15 1:23 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> here is fragmentary code that might give you ideas.
>
> (cl-defun alpha-org-blog-subtree (&key nocopy)
>    "Copy the subtree, converted to HTML, for pasting into Blogger
> as a blog post.  If there is an active region, use that instead.
>
> This also works generically, because Blogger uses what Org will
> output as body-only.  So it could be called `alpha-org-html'.
>
> No other software needs to be installed.  No temporary file is
> created.  No file is created.  A buffer is created.
>
> For an example of this code in action, see
> <http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com>.
>
> ===
>
> You have to turn off Blogger's conversion of newline to br tags
> in settings and in the new Blogger post editor (the old editors
> do not have that option) and in the Blogger pages editor (if you
> use pages).  This makes Blogger more compatible.  Extra blank
> lines are normally ignored in HTML (w3m and Firefox on .html), so
> it makes sense to make Blogger ignore them instead of converting
> them.  Org sometimes leaves extra blank lines, so it makes a
> difference.
>
> The HTML code is left in a buffer that is one buffer away in the
> buffer ring.  To display it in a browser, use M-x
> browse-url-of-buffer or similar, but you can also use my wrappers
> that do it directly for you.
>
> ===
>
> The top level headline by default is not exported, because
> Blogger already has a title.  For both posts and pages, Blogger's
> title field forms the URL and is therefore manually entered.
>
> ===
>
> Org variables:
>
> You can control what gets exported with org-export-with-*.  I
> also find that (setq org-export-headline-levels 10) is useful.
>
> ===
>
> Advanced:
>
> With non-interactive keyword NOCOPY, don't save the output in
> the kill ring.
>
> ===
>
> I use Blogger.com for hosted blogging instead of Wordpress.com
> because Google has a better attitude toward accessibility.
> "
>    (interactive)
>
> ;;; I tried using mail2blogger, but the HTML got posted.  fixme
> ;;; try with msmtp or find out how to send raw programmatic
> ;;; email.
> ;;;
> ;;; ===
> ;;;
> ;;; Also, check for fixmes.  (Or org could check for fixmes
> ;;; before all export.  Is there a hook?)
> ;;;
> ;;; Also, remind you to extract big chunks of comments for
> ;;; possible other blog entries.
> ;;;
> ;;; Also, remind you to make sure all links work and review
> ;;; formatting.
> ;;;
>
>    ;; We need to create output that removes <p> tags for Blogger
>    ;; comments.
>
>    ;; with mail2blogger or weblogger.el or atom, we can assume
>    ;; publish.
>
>    (save-excursion
>      (save-window-excursion
>        (unless (org-region-active-p)
>          (org-mark-subtree)
>          ;; skip headline
>          (forward-line 1))
>
>        (let ((output-buffer
>               ;; recommended: (let ((org-html-toplevel-hlevel 3))
>               ;; we do our own copying in case we want to wrap and
>               ;; then copy.
>               ;;
>               ;; (let ((org-export-copy-to-kill-ring (not nocopy)))
>               (save-excursion
>                 (save-window-excursion
>                   (org-export-to-buffer 'html
>                                         ;;or buf
>                                         alpha-org-blog-html-buffer
>                                         ;; new arg for async
>                                         nil
>                                         'subtree
>                                         ;; visible-only
>                                         nil
>                                         'body-only)))))
>
>          ;;(deactivate-mark)
>          (switch-to-buffer output-buffer)
>
>          ;; org doesn't include a newline at the end
>          (goto-char (point-max))
>          (insert "\n")
>          (goto-char (point-min))
>
>          (unless nocopy
>            (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max)))
>
>          (setq header-line-format "html output")
>
>          ;; we want the output buffer to be silently in the next
>          ;; buffer in the buffer ring.
>          (previous-buffer)
>          (message "alpha org exported")
>          output-buffer))))
>
> for images:
>
> #+ATTR_HTML: :title Fern
> #+ATTR_HTML: :alt (c) ... Their free license
> #+ATTR_HTML: :align center
> #+ATTR_HTML: :width 512px
> {{{image-fern}}}
>
> #+macro: image-fern http://2.bp.blogspot.com/....jpg
>
>
> On 12/24/15, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> wrote:
>> I would love to be able to write blog posts for Blogger, including
>> images, and be able to upload the posts easily. I've seen various
>> discussions about using org-mode for blogging, but nothing recent for
>> Blogger specifically. Are there any good tools or tips for this?
>>
>> I do regularly use org-mode for text blog posts, but I don't know a way
>> to include images, preview the results, and then upload the whole thing
>> to one of several blogs I have.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -pd
>>
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