This would be the main reference for Volt, covering:

• The subcommands
• How to build a basic site
• How to extend a site using Engines, Plugins, and Widgets,

This is my ENGINE_BLOG Config(): PAGINATIONS = ('', 'tag/{tags}',...

However, on "volt gen", it aborts with:

File "/home/spaetz/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/Volt-0.0.2-py3.3.egg/volt/engine/core.py", line 276, in
item_list_per_unit = (getattr(x, field) for x in units)
AttributeError: 'TextUnit' object has no attribute 'tags'

And indeed, most of my posts don't have a ---

tags: foo

in their post. Would it be possible to robustify this, to assume an empty value if non-existant rather than bailing out? I don't really want to insert an empty "tags: " line in those posts if not needed. And it might be worthwhile to fix this to work (ie not bail out) on all possible attributes.

I really love volt. It's nicely done. I am still fuzzing with the styles, but you can see it in action at http://sspaeth.de

Hi 👊

This is my first visit to this fine repo, but it seems you have been working hard to keep all dependencies updated so far.

Once you have closed this issue, I'll create seperate pull requests for every update as soon as I find one.

That's it for now!

Happy merging! 🤖

Hello, I am unable to change the excerpt length regardless of what character length I try.
I changed from the default 400 to 25 and different values in between with no change. Is there anywhere else I need to change this? I found the following code in volt conf.py Thanks

# Excerpt length (in characters) for paginated items
EXCERPT_LENGTH = 25,

So far slugify can only work when the title consists of ASCII only (it removes some special chars, though). Being a German I tend to have a few Umlauts in my titles though and volt bombs out. I can see a few ways to handle this better from the volt side of things:

1. Filter out even more special chars, using a list such as öäü. I did this by adding it to the list of RE_PRUNE (or similar) regexp.
2. Filter out all non-ascii chars by adding \W to the list of pruned chars. (more general solution)
3. Use maketrans and str.translate to replace some chars with others, this would not work well for e.g. ä which needs to become 'ae'.
4. Add more replacement rules that replace öäü with oe, ae, ue etc...
5. Allow to have umlauts in slugs (not sure how web servers handle that)

Personally, I think #2 might be the easiest solution.This seems also in line with what e.g. django does on slugify:
"Converts to lowercase, removes non-word characters (alphanumerics and underscores) and converts spaces to hyphens. Also strips leading and trailing whitespace."

If RE_PRUNE would strip all non-ascii chars, this would also make the whole non-ascii check in lines 459-469 redundant.

Hi bow,
Today I tought my atom feed at http://sspaeth.de/index.atom to include the language tag of my posts. While doing that I discovered that the atomic plugin allows you to specify a template file name in the CONFIG, but the directory is hardcoded to the atomic plugin one, which is usually not reachable for a user that has a system installation of volt. It would rather make sense to be able to specify the TEMPLATE_DIR in the plugin configuration, or even better to:

1. Check the users TEMPLATE_DIR for the template file, and if not there fall back to the built-in one.

I have solved to issue for myself by doing "volt ext --builtin atomic" and hacking the code to use CONFIG.SITE.TEMPLATE_DIR, but I would be happier if I could use the upstream plugin.

hi.

as3:/volt# mkdir volt-site
as3:/volt# cd volt-site
as3:~/volt/volt-site# volt init

Volt project started. Have fun!

as3:/volt/volt-site# volt gen
All engines are inactive -- nothing to generate.
as3:/volt/volt-site# ls
contents templates voltconf.py voltconf.pyc

tks

1. Install volt
2. Run "volt serve" without any previous configuration in an empty dir:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Volt-0.0.2-py2.7.egg/volt/config/init.py", line 144, in prep_template
if hasattr(user_widget, func_name):
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'user_widget' referenced before assignment

And indeed, volt/config/init.py fails a few lines above "if the user does not have any widget file" and then bombs out on line 144 where the variable "user_widget" is supposed to exist.