Aprils Cool Blogging Tool

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Hello friends! So you want to have a simple and editable blog on your static site? Well, you've come to the right place.

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To set up a blog like this one you will need a Google account and a bit of time.

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Step 1: Download the files for this project, please do not hotlink them

site.html blog.js style.css

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Step 2: Create a google sheet, share it so anyone with the link can view it and then set it up as shown below

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Step 3: Copy the google sheet url and change "edit?usp=sharing" at the end of the link to "export?format=csv" then put your sheet link into the js file where it says "YOUR SHEET HERE"

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Step 4: Write some blog posts! You can add formatting to your text by using html and css e.g


<span style='color: pink; font-style: italic;'> transgender</span >


will display:

transgender

When writing formatted text just remember to use single quotes '' instead of double quotes ""


You may wanna check back up here every so often as there may be additional features!

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If anything doesnt work feel free to contact me! My discord is stupid#3005. If people want different styles I may make some more but for now its just this one, you can always edit the css yourself.


Many thanks to Ayano for providing both the idea and a bit of the code for this you can find her full comment widget this is based off of here

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