[Tor www-team] [Back-end][CMS]

[Rey Dhuny]

> Can anyone explain a bit how Jekyll would work in the context of the Tor website?

In terms of the Tor website it would be a case of completely replacing the current Drupal implementation with a website built on Jekyll.

In practice this would require moving all the content current found on torproject.org into markdown files.

Each markdown file would have a `layout`[1] defined in the YAML frontmatter[2] which exists on the top of the markdown file.

As a simplified example, a blog post's frontmatter may look like:

```
---
layout: post title: "Tor Weekly News" tags: - weeklynews - browserbundle
---
```
And a page's frontmatter may look like:
```
---
layout: page title: "Documentation" ---
```
The documentation has an example of a basic directory structure: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/


> Do users need to create the content on disk or through a web interface?
There is currently no implementation of a `web interface` in Jekyll (although you could argue that GitHub's web edit interface fills this need, that's not relevant to this implementation).
To create content users would create on disk. How a user gets this created content to torproject.org is an important consideration. Would they commit this to a git repo? Would they upload to trac? Etc.
Rey
[1] http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/
[2] http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/


On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 22:08, Olssy wrote:

> Starting this thread to discuss the different solutions, what they offer and how many people have used them before.
> 
> I know Drupal better than other CMSs and it fits the requirements although static generation is not out of the box but supported by a module(like most things in Drupal). Content is usually created and modified through a web interface that offers either source code view or a WYSIWYG GUI but can be template based using text files on disk. 
> 
> Can anyone explain a bit how Jekyll would work in the context of the Tor website? Do users need to create the content on disk or through a web interface? 
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