Include static HTML content in your Habari posts
Posted on Friday, June 5, 2015
When I switched to the Habari publishing platform, I had a bunch
of automatically created HTML content that I wanted to be included in my
posts and pages. Mainly this content was created by some
Perl scripts and automatically uploaded to my
web server. Updates occurred quite often and so I had the urge to avoid
time-consuming manual updates.
To remedy this, I wrote a very simple Habari plugin named "IncStatic"
that checks posts before the are displayed and if a post contains tags
of the form <!--file="..."--> it replaces these tags with the content
of the given file.
Example and usage
Here's an example of a posts content using IncStatic:
<h1>This is the page title</h1>
<p>This page includes some static HTML from another file. Here is the content
of that file:</p>
<hr>
<!--file="static1.html"-->
<hr>
<p>This text is part of the page again. Maybe some explanatory text for the content
that had been included. Of course you can include multiple files, so here's another
one:</p>
<hr>
<!--file="static2.html"-->
<hr>
<p>And here's the end of the page</p>
This includes the content of the files static1.html and static2.html
at the respective positions.
Filenames are specified relative to the root folder (which is e.g.
public_html or htdocs) of the website. For example
<!--file="static1.html"-->
includes the file "static1.html" from the web root, while
<!--file="files/static2.html"-->
includes the file "static2.html" from the folder "files". In the latter case there mustn't be a leading slash!
Get and install it
If you think this plugin could be useful to you, you're welcome to freely download and use it. As always, it's provided as is and you use it entirely at your own risk.
That said, installation is totally simple:
- Download (ZIP, 2 kB) and unpack the ZIP file
- Upload the folder "incstatic" to the folder
user/pluginsof your Habari site - Go to the Habari administration panel and activate the plugin in the plugin settings
