lektor/lektor

The lektor static file content management system

Sviatoslav Sydorenko

@webknjaz

Does anybody know how to truncate blog posts? Jinja2 templates expose HTML-highlighted content that's already converted to markdown. So using {{ post.body | string | truncate(leeway=5) }} emits broken HTML (as in <p>...... w/o closing </p>)

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Fritz Feger

@fritzfeger

What is the easiest way to make the blog list appear on the start page?

Sviatoslav Sydorenko

@webknjaz

@fritzfeger this: webknjaz/.me@d10bb0f

Fritz Feger

@fritzfeger

@webknjaz brilliant. Thank you!

Monette

@Monette5

Hi, I am using Lektor in a site migration. I am having difficulty in creating a dropdown navigation menu for the site. I have been trying to extend the information in the docs but I can't get this to work. Has anyone managed a navigation dropdown?

Mountain/\Ash

@mountainash_twitter

@Monette5 Lektor outputs HTML, it's not responsible for the layout/design of it. There's many, many ways you can design your dropdown navigation. By having Lektor output HTML into a list (as documented here https://www.getlektor.com/docs/templates/navigation/ ) you can then use a combination of CSS (and optionally Javascript) to create a drop-down menu - there's hundreds of example here: https://codepen.io/search/pens?q=dropdown+navigation

Roberto Arista

@roberto-arista

Hey there!
I have a question concerning Alternatives. According to the docs, in order to create some alternative content, I need to duplicate the entire .lr file and this option worry me. Let’s say I want to add a Spanish translation to a website that has English as the main language. If I understood correctly the process, I need to duplicate the .lr files, add the language extension (fe: contents+es.lr) and change the content from English to Spanish. The issue I see with this process is that not everything needs to be translated, for example, images. Some images may have some text that needs to be translated into Spanish, but most of them do not. Is it possible to avoid duplication?
Is there a way to keep the alternative content inside the main .lr file? Any example of a lektor code base with alternatives to look into?
Thanks

Mountain/\Ash

@mountainash_twitter

@roberto-arista The image isn't "embedded" into the .lr file - so you can just reference the same image (it's just a link). May many pages of the site (and "alternatives" can reference the same image - it's not effected by the image)... if fact: lektor has a "problem" - all attachments (inc. images) will always be outputted to the "primary" alternative (so you will have /en/ in the URL to the image, even if it's a "ES" image).

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Monette

@Monette5

@mountainash_twitter Thank you very much for your advice. I had managed to get it working using a mix of bootstrap and Lektor navigation.

Mountain/\Ash

@mountainash_twitter

Is there a way to reduce Lektor Admin to not show both the "overlaid" and "primary" when using Alternatives? We have 3 languages, but by showing 4 Alternatives it's confusing for Content Producers and content is lost/out-of-sync as some times users update the Primary and sometimes the overlaid.

Mountain/\Ash

@mountainash_twitter

Or is there a way to keep the Lektor Admin preview on the "primary" instead of jumping to the "overlaid" each time a change is saved?

Monette

@Monette5

Is there a way to size an image using markdown - avoiding html?

Monette

@Monette5

I have been trying to utilise summernote as a plugin for the admin interface. I have created a plugin following the instructions in the lektor docs, however although I can append a summernote div to the admin UI I can't replace the textarea body with it or show the summernote controls. Theoretically summernote is really easy to initialise with some html and a script, so am I over-thinking this by going and writing a plugin for it?

Adrien

@why-not-try-calmer

Hello! I have been using lektor for a couple of days and it feels just great! However, I am hitting kind of a ceiling with my lektor deploy ghpages workflow. With Gihub requiring soon ssh connections, and since I am using signed commits globally, I have to input a password three times to deploy with lektor (2x ssh for the branch then push + 1x gpg for signed commits). It's a bit of a hassle. Any idea or tips to help me lower the numbers?

Jonathan Vanasco

@jvanasco

Does anyone have a recommendation to accomplish this in Lektor:
I would like to display an "alert" box on certain pages. The content of the alert box would be a "Page" that is edited by the Lektor CMS.

My interim solution is hardcoding the alert into a function, and using a field to enable/disable the alert on each Page. I'd really like this to be something a non-tech person can update though.

Jurgen Geitner

@jurgenizer

I love Lektor and have used it for a number of sites. Feature request please: Could WebP images be added as a recognized image attachment file type to the Lektor core code, in the same way that .jpg .jpeg .gif .png are? (For automatic thumbnailing and other built-in Lektor features.)

Eric Ma

@ericmjl

@Nycticorax can I ask if you've considered using GitHub actions to deploy to github pages? If you've not considered it and haven't tried it before, I am happy to show you some workflows from my own website repo: https://github.com/ericmjl/website/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-website.yml

tallmtt

@tallmtt

I am new to using lektor and really like it! What is the easiest syntax to add image attachments in a page's content?

Omar5997

@Omar5997

Hellow everybody,

I want to ask if the windows installer is available for Lektor. I am still struggling with cmd!

tallmtt

@tallmtt

Nevermind my question. This works: <img src="imagename.jpg" alt="" class="">

Michael Vartanyan

@mvartanyan

I want to ask if the windows installer is available for Lektor. I am still struggling with cmd!

there is (was?) a possibility to install Lektor under Windows https://www.getlektor.com/docs/installation/#command-line-application but I wouldn't count on it as it is probably not tested nearly as well as the Linux version. Use the WSL.

Omar5997

@Omar5997

oh, thanks .. what is WSL?

Omar5997

@Omar5997

ok (windows subsystem for linux) .. it would work but it is still too much work to establish the environment and had to open it each time I'd like to manage my website content .. I really hope .. the windows installer is built so soon .. Lektor is quite a unique CMS choice

Uwe Kamper

@uwekamper

A coworker of mine is getting this error when trying to run "lektor build" on Windows 10:

OSError: [WinError 17] The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive: 'C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Lektor\Cache\builds\5c6b4943d1e300e6f4a569e14f69f994\.__transe8mhexjg' -> 'C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Lektor\Cache\builds\5c6b4943d1e300e6f4a569e14f69f994\index.html'

We also noticed that the directory that is mentioned in the error message does not exist. AFAIK it should be automatically created by Lektor, right?

I cannot reproduce the error on my local Windows 10 machine – for me everything just worked. Has anyone seen this kind of error before and can point me into any direction?

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Bharath

@Its_bharathp_twitter

hello, trying to implement the categories as per doc https://www.getlektor.com/docs/guides/categories/ but the checkbox does not work at all. it gives error as follows

multiWidgets.jsx:47 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'props' of undefined
    at onChangeHandler (multiWidgets.jsx:47)

Please help

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Uwe Kamper

@uwekamper

@Its_bharathp_twitter

My interim solution is hardcoding the alert into a function, and using a field to enable/disable the alert on each Page. I'd really like this to be something a non-tech person can update though.

I would do something like this: First create a template that renders the error message as a string only without any HTML around it. You then can create a separate page that only contains the alert message and assign the new template to this page.

You can change Javascript code that displays the alert message to load the message from the newly created page.

Ghost

@ghost~6036e6486da0373984631692

Hello! I faced the same issue as in lektor/lektor#641. Is it possible to bypass it somehow or just deploy it from under another OS?

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Monette

@Monette5

Hi - I have created a wysiwyg interface for our lektor project - would you be interested in seeing it and if so where would I make the suggestion?

Olivier D.

@odeckmyn

Hi team ! I've been playing with Lektor for quite a long time now. I'm the author of several plugin (including lektor-i18n). I'm facing a very strange issue since a few days I can't solve by myself.

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My site is rendering good, but only once. When I try to build it again, it's raising a very strange error.

I've described my issue here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66389221/a-lektor-website-unable-to-build-twice-in-a-row

Could anybody help me please ? I'm stuck :(

Thanx in advance !

Ben Widawsky

@widawsky_twitter

I'd really like to get the output of git describe in a layout. Is there an easy way to do that?

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Monette

@Monette5

I have created a plugin and would like to use some JavaScript for it, however I can't see how to map the JS file within the plugin. I have tried to define it in the plugin class definition but it is still not found. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

j-b-grenouille

@j-b-grenouille

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https://www.getlektor.com/docs/content/attachments/ as far as I anderstaend I havew to create the [attachment].[EXT].lr file bei Hand. So there is no possibility to have automated Metadata via Web-Admin UI

I was expectiong, if I have a default model at [Attachments] in the config file, this would be done outomatic, but it's not

also the .lr file needs to have a _model feald also if a defalt model is defined

did I miss something?

j-b-grenouille

@j-b-grenouille

I worked around using inotifywait on system base to create needet .lr files and also delte them, if the attachment ist deleted

pravin p

@hilt-pravin_gitlab

I'm trying to implement checkboxes type in admin side but unable to select checkboxes. Is their any alternative for checkboxes?

leonid-dubov

@leonid-dubov

Hi, I've tried to install Lektor 3.2 on macOS 11.2.3, but got an error with bulding cryptography module, full output here https://pastebin.com/qwAGAmPZ

If there some workaround to install Lektor correctly?

I've tried to upgrade system pip to latest version, but looks like Lektor doesn't use system one, even with sudo

leonid-dubov

@leonid-dubov

And lektor doesn't work properly

Udoka

@UdokaVrede

Hi everyone

j-b-grenouille

@j-b-grenouille

I'm trying to implement checkboxes type in admin side but unable to select checkboxes. Is their any alternative for checkboxes?

as far ad I know just downgrade, see:

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