How I generate my blog from Org files

I have used org-static-blog to generate HTML from org files for a while, but I have changed how I get those files onto my website. Org files are markup files used in Emacs Org Mode. The syntax is more regular than Markdown, there is only one standard unlike Markdown and the facilities in Org Mode to write these files make it a really great format to work with for any Emacs user.

In the past, I would manually delete all files except robots.txt, style.css and my media folder from the folder I exported to with org-static-blog. The reason is that org-static-blog only creates html files from org files where the html file does not already exist and then updates index.html, archive.html and rss.xml to reflect the changes. However, I sometimes edit older blog posts or my about page or change the header or footer which applies to all html pages, so I want to generate all the files every time and to achieve this, I delete all the html files before generating the new ones with the function org-static-blog-publish from my posts folder full of org files. I would then either use scp or FileZilla to upload those to my web server.

What I do now is use Codeberg Pages to serve my website instead. I have forwarded https://mostad.eu/ to https://einar.codeberg.page/ so visitors to mostad.eu get to the URL where html files in my Codeberg repo called pages are served by Codeberg instead. I have also made a shell script (that I will replace with an Elisp function in the future) that removes the previously generated html files, generates the html files with Emacs, and once closed, adds, commits and pushes the files to the repository Codeberg Pages hosts my website from. This way, I can get out a new blog post a lot faster than I would in the past and most of the process is automated.