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An Admin Interface for Hexo
https://github.com/jaredly/hexo-admin

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An Admin Interface for Hexo

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# Maintainer wanted!

This project has a ton of people using it, but I (@jaredly) haven't used Hexo in several years. If you use this plugin, and are interested in helping maintain it, I'd love your help! To volunteer, start making pull requests fixing bugs & making things better :) if I'm not responsive, feel free to bug me on twitter (@jaredforsyth).



![logo](docs/logo.png?raw=true)



An admin UI for the [Hexo blog engine](http://hexo.io). Based off of the [Ghost](http://ghost.org) interface, with inspiration from [svbtle](http://svbtle.com) and [prose.io](http://prose.io).



## Hexo Version



For 2.x, use version `0.3.0` of this plugin. Version `1.x` and beyond only

support Hexo v3.x.



### Contents

- [**Screenshots**](#screenshots)

- [**Quickstart**](#quickstart)

- [**Credits**](#credits)



# Local use vs deployment

This plugin was originally designed as a local editor -- you run hexo locally, use `hexo-admin` to author posts, and then use `hexo generate` or `hexo deploy` to send the generated static HTML files up to github pages or some other static server.



However, `hexo-admin` can be run on your live blog, as long as you're using a non-static hosting service such as Heroku, DigitalOcean, etc. Static hosting services such as Github pages and Surge.sh does not support running hexo-admin from your live site.

If you're using Hexo admin from your live blog, you should definitely set up a password (see below) -- otherwise anyone will be able to edit your content.



# Screenshots

![posts view](docs/pasted-0.png?raw=true)



![editor view](docs/pasted-1.png?raw=true)



# Quickstart

### 1. Setup hexo & create a blog

```sh

npm install -g hexo

cd ~/

hexo init my-blog

cd my-blog

npm install

```

### 2. Install the admin & start things up

```sh

npm install --save hexo-admin

hexo server -d

open http://localhost:4000/admin/

```

### 3. Profit!

The UI should be pretty discoverable -- let me know if you can't find something.



### 4. Password protection

If you're using Hexo admin on your live server, you want some password

protection. To enable this, you just add a few config variables to your hexo

`_config.yml`:



```

admin:

  username: myfavoritename

  password_hash: be121740bf988b2225a313fa1f107ca1

  secret: a secret something

```



The `password_hash` is the bcrypt hash of your password. The `secret` is used

to make the cookies secure, so it's a good idea to have it be long and

complicated.



A utility in Hexo admin's Settings can hash your password and generate the `admin`

section for you. Start Hexo and go to `Settings > Setup authentification`

and fill out your information. Copy the generated YAML into your `_config.yml`.



Once that's in place, start up your hexo server and going to `/admin/` will

require you to enter your password.



### 5. Custom post metadata

To add and edit your own post metadata with the admin interface, add the

metadata variable and your custom variables to your hexo `_config.yml`:

```

metadata:

  author_id: defaultAuthorId

  language:

```

You can provide default values that will be used to initialize the metadata

of a new post. These can be either primitives or arrays.



### 6. Contribute!

- let me know how it can be improved in the [github

  issues](https://github.com/jaredly/hexo-admin/issues)

- [fork](https://github.com/jaredly/hexo-admin) and pull-request



# Credits



built with ❤ by [Jared Forsyth](http://jaredly.github.io)

([@jaredforsyth](http://twitter.com/jaredforsyth)) using

[react](http://facebook.github.io/react), [browserify](

http://browserify.org), and [less](http://lesscss.org).