imathis/octopress — Issue #224: Thoughts: How to integrate 3rd party plug-ins into Octopress?
Author: fhemberger
Created: 2011-10-16 10:43:54+00:00
State: open
Labels: new feature, post 2.1

I'm thinking about a way to include future 3rd party plug-ins into Octopress. The workflow should look like:

$ cd octopress/plugins
$ git clone some/repository/my-plugin.git
$ cd my-plugin
$ rake install

A plug-in should contain a Rakefile with an `:install` task, which takes care of all relevant changes.

Octopress should bring along basic methods for manipulating its installation (create/update/delete config entries, add/remove template and style code) which can be used by a plug-in instead of writing files directly, which is more error-prone.