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<h1 class="title">First Community Patch &amp; Tweaks</h1>
<p class="date">Fri, 15 Jul 2022</p>
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<li><a href="#the-changes" id="toc-the-changes">The Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#some-features-left-behind" id="toc-some-features-left-behind">Some Features Left Behind&#x2026;</a></li>
<li><a href="#introducing-tweaks" id="toc-introducing-tweaks">Introducing &#x201C;Tweaks&#x201D;</a></li>
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<p><code>pblog</code> has received its first community patch! By &#x201C;community&#x201D; I mean someone other than myself has helped make this blog generator even better. So special thanks to <a href="https://matthewgraybosch.com/">Matthew Graybosch</a> for contributing to this humble project and patching in some solid quality of life improvements.</p>
<p>This is why open source is great: smarter people can help fix your mashed-up spaghetti code!</p>
<h3 id="the-changes">The Changes</h3>
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<li>Both pages and posts now generated <em>Table of Contents</em> by default
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<li>You have the ability to disable this site-wide in the <code>pblog</code> config</li>
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<li>Ability to disable Pandoc generated syntax highlighting</li>
<li><code>xsltproc</code> will now generate HTML5 and include the RSS feed description under the title
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<li>See it live on the <a href="/feed.xml">main RSS XML feed</a></li>
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<li>New metadata variable (<code>HTML_LANG</code>) in the <code>pblog.sh</code> config</li>
<li>Generated pages and posts now have &#x201C;Table of Contents&#x201D; by default
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<li>This can be disabled in individual files with <code>toc: false</code></li>
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<li>Cleaned up redundant find statements</li>
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<h3 id="some-features-left-behind">Some Features Left Behind&#x2026;</h3>
<p>Also suggested in this patch was the addition of more advanced image manipulation via <code>ImageMagick</code>. This additional feature was pretty great from my testing but I felt as though adding an extra dependency and <em>slightly</em> more complex settings to <code>pblog</code> was moving things further from simplicity.</p>
<p><strong>BUT</strong> - that doesn&#x2019;t mean you can&#x2019;t take this great feature with you!</p>
<h3 id="introducing-tweaks">Introducing &#x201C;Tweaks&#x201D;</h3>
<p>I feel that <code>pblog</code> should always remain as simple as possible at the core. Let people get something up-and-running with the least amount of friction as possible. But I know that some users might want to squeeze just a <em>little</em> bit more out of it. This is where the new <strong>Tweaks</strong> section comes in.</p>
<p>Feel free to check out the <a href="/tweaks.html">official Tweaks page</a> and don&#x2019;t be afraid to add your own by opening a patch-set!</p>
<p>That&#x2019;s all for now, thanks for reading!</p>
<p>&#x2013; Brad</p>
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