Upgrading to v6
Upgrading to v6
- Version
-
6.2.1
Nikola tries fairly hard to be compatible between versions. However, there were a few areas which were getting clunky, and needed fxing. So, here's what you may need to change in your site.
If you need to change anything else, or something breaks, please write at nikola-discuss and I'll add further tweaks here.
Themes
- NOTE
-
There is no equivalent for the jinja-default theme yet. If you have a custom, jinja-based theme, upgrading is probably a bad idea right now.
Themes have been renamed:
site => bootstrap
orphan => base
Theme added:
base-jinja
Themes have been moved out of nikola and into nikola-themes:
default => oldfashioned at nikola-themes
jinja-default => not there yet, coming soon
monospace => monospace at nikola-themes
site-reveal => reveal at nikola-themes
You may have to change your THEME
setting, or change the parent
if you are
using a custom theme. Also, some templates have been tweaked, but nothing should
break for you.
Facebook comments support changed the HTML tag to:
If you do not want to use Facebook comments, you can leave the old <html
lang="${lang}">
tag in and it will work just fine.
Configuration
A number of options have been renamed. In most cases, the behaviour should be exactly as before.
However, post_pages
was split into POSTS
and PAGES
. Long
story short, anything that had a True
as the use_in_feeds
(last) value goes to POSTS
and anything with False
goes to
PAGES
. For example:
post_pages = ( ("posts/*.txt", "", "post.tmpl", True), ("stories/*.txt", "p", "story.tmpl", False), ("stories/*.html", "s", "story.tmpl", False), ) ### becomes ### POSTS = ( ("posts/*.txt", "", "post.tmpl"), ) PAGES = ( ("stories/*.txt", "p", "story.tmpl"), ("stories/*.html", "s", "story.tmpl"), )
Also, you will get warnings. That doesn't mean things broke. They are there to inform you of what's happening, and that you need to tweak your config.
All the deprecated options will work during the v6 cycle, and only be removed in v7, when those warnings will become errors.
Comments
If you want a custom theme to support comment systems other than disqus, you will need to:
Replace mentions of disqus_helper.tmpl with comments_helper.tmpl
Replace mentions of html_disqus with comment_form
Replace mentions of html_disqus_link with comment_link
Replace mentions of html_disqus_script with comment_link_script
If you don't, your theme should work just fine, but support only disqus comments.