Hosting your Kriti blog on subdirectory

Kriti blog provides free support for hosting a blog on subdirectory e.x. www.example.com/blogs. Although the setup gets a bit technical but can be achieved in few steps.

Getting Started

Suppose you’ve decided to boost your SEO ranking for your e-commerce site coolcommerce.com and identified hosting /blogs on the domain path as a solution, the expected URL would be www.coolcommerce.com/blogs/.

Achieving this is a 2 step process.

1. Add or edit custom domain on dashboard

Add or edit custom …

Kriti Update

Staying Updated

Run kriti update and let the application handle updating itself. Keep it simple!

Finishing Up

Verification

Run kriti version to verify newer version of the software. Current available version can be verified here.

Installing Kriti

Installation process depends upon your OS.

Downloading & Installation

Depending on the OS, given command will download and install the Kriti program on your system for the user.

Mac OS or Linux

• Search and open the Terminal app
• Run the following command

curl -sSfL https://kriti.blog/downloads/kriti-cli/latest | bash

Windows

Feature in development, coming soon! But you can still try it out by following -

• Search and open either Powershell (recommended) or Command Prompt
• Run the following …

Blog Folder Structure

Kriti follows a sane and defined blog structure. Everything revolves around the kriti.blog file. The location of this file dictates where the markdown and other related files are.

Ideal Structure

Where ever you decide to place your new blog content while running kriti new blog, it should have following files and folder bare minimum

sample-blog/
|-- kriti.blog
|-- content/
|---- blog1/
|------ index.md
|------ cover.png
|-- static/
|---- favicon.ico

The best approach would be to keep all the …

A Single Blog Page

You can write a blog in any editor you like, no restrictions.

Where to place the blog

Every blog needs a markdown file at the least. This markdown file should be named as index.md and must be placed under a folder which it self is under content folder. This folder represents a blog.

Example

| ...
|-- content/
	|-- monsters
		|-- where-is-cthulu
			|-- index.md
			|-- cover.png

This example is for the blog example.kriti.blog/monsters/where-is-cthulu. Content for this blog is available inside the …

Opengraph and Twitter tags

OpenGraph Tags

Refer the OpenGraph specification for details. All the values are derived either from the file metadata or frontmatter. To get all Opengraph tags all you need is to add following in frontmatter, which you’ll be already having for other metadata

title: Current page title
description: Current page description
publishDate: yyyy-mm-dd

And add an image called with name og or else cover image is used as fallback.

Sometimes derived values are not enough and custom values must be …