Customize your blog

Templates

Templates can be ovrriden by providing a PBLOG_TEMPLATE_FOLDER settings. The value is the path to a directory to take templates from insteand of using Pblog defaults one.

Check the views module for more information on views.

Markdown

PBlog uses python-markdown to parse blog posts.

Without any configuration, a Markdown instance with minimal configuration is used internally. This markdown have the following extensions enabled:

• MetaExtension
• SummaryExtension

You can provide a custom markdown instance to PBlog. There is no need to explicitly register the MetaExtension et SummaryExtension as they will be automatically provided if missing.

from flask import Flask
from flask_pblog import PBlog
from markdown import Markdown

app = Flask(__name__)
md = Markdown(
   extensions=['markdown.extensions.codehilite'],
   output_format='html5',
   tab_length=2,
)
storage = None  # build it as you whish
PBlog(app, storage=storage, markdown=markdown)