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Blogs

Write a simple reader-mode blog in Markdown from the dashboard, with a logo, a name, a links page, and images.

Blogs

A blog is a page whose files sherpage generates for you. You write posts in Markdown in the dashboard and choose a few things about the look; the result is an ordinary bundle at a p.shebang.pro/<public-id>/ address, so everything on this site that applies to a page — access modes, expiry, the short link, archiving — applies to a blog too.

The design is deliberately plain: one column of text, a gentle serif on a dark background by default, and a home page that lists every published post from most recent to earliest. Think reader mode, not a theme.

Creating one

On the pages screen, choose New blog and give it a name. That creates the page, an empty site, and its short link. A blog starts public — the page settings screen changes that like any other page.

Writing

Each post has a title, an address (the <slug>.html file it becomes), and a Markdown body. Headings, lists, links, emphasis, code blocks, tables and images all render; raw HTML is dropped rather than passed through, so a post can never carry script into the page.

A new post is a draft. Drafts are never rendered into the bundle; publish from the post's editor when it is ready. Publishing stamps the date shown on the home page and the post itself. Unpublishing clears it, so a post published again later gets a fresh date.

Images

Upload an image from a post's editor. It lands in the bundle under images/ and the editor inserts ![alt](images/name.png) at the cursor; any post on the blog can reference it. Images are png, jpg, webp, gif or svg, up to 8 MB each. Removing an image from the editor deletes it from the bundle — posts that still reference it will show a broken image.

The look

  • Name and tagline — shown in the header of every page.
  • Logo — an uploaded image shown beside the name. Optional.
  • Font — serif (the default) or sans-serif. Both use the reader's own system fonts; nothing is downloaded.
  • Background — dark (the default) or light.
  • Links page — a list of labels and URLs. When it has at least one entry, a Links page is generated and linked from the header.

What the bundle contains

index.html (the home page), style.css, links.html when there are links, one <slug>.html per published post, the logo, and images/. The usual limits apply — see limits: a blog is capped at 100 files in total, posts and images together. Every one of these files is regenerated on each change; the logo and images are yours and are never touched by a re-render.

Because the files are generated, the sherpage_* tools should not be used to upload files into a blog page — the next edit would overwrite them. Managing posts through the MCP server is not available yet.

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