Watt, by CASH music

Watt is a new publication from CASH Music that asks and answers questions about music, industry, and the role of art in our world.

We've built Watt using widely used technologies like JSON, markdown, and mustache. The goal was to build a system that was lean (like a Jeckyll) but also powerful enough to handle tagging, serve content over an open JSON API, and provide format RSS feeds, etc.

Quick docs: adding stories to Watt

Pay attention:

TO VIEW LOCAL CHANGES YOU MAY NEED TO DELETE THE FOLLOWING GENERATED FILES BEFORE REFRESHING YOUR BROWER

_generated_authors.json _generated_tags.json _generated_work.json

Index Page

1. Settings

   Ouputs to the Watt homepage. This file is a series of arrays (lists) that outline which articles to pull through into your chosen Index template.

   Located in archive > settings.json

   /**********************************************************************/

   { "featured_work":["whyamidoingthistomyself"], "secondary_work":["maggievail","meredithgraves","letterfromclaire","impactcolinmeloy"], "tertiary_work":[], "quaternary_work":[], "featured_authors":[], "featured_tags":["impact","culture", "community", "sustainability"], "featured_video":[], "template":"index" }

   /**********************************************************************/

2. Index templates

   1. index - Generic Index Structure - ( featured / secondary / tertiary / quarternary )
   2. index-first - First used template - ( statement feature / secondary array / tertiary_work array )
   3. index-statement - Generic Index Structure w/ featured statement - ( featured statement / secondary / tertiary / quarternary )
   4. index-feat-video - Generic Index Structure w/ featured video - ( featured video )
   5. index-leftalign-feature - Generic Index Structure w/ left aligned featured story - ( featured / secondary / tertiary / quarternary )
   6. index-rightalign-feature - Generic Index Structure w/ right aligned featured story - ( featured / secondary / tertiary / quarternary )
   7. index-no-feature - Generic Index Structure w/o featured story - ( secondary / tertiary / quarternary )

Tag pages

File should be named same as the tag item of the article

/******************************************************************************/

Output location :- watt.cashmusic.org/tag/NAMEOFTAG

{
     "title":"Impact of music",
      "description":"Music impacts nearly every aspect of our lives. We ask folks about how, why, and how best to support the people that make it.",
       "featured_work":[
	       "impactcolinmeloy"
          ]
      }

"featured_work" = top featured article of tag page. (outputted in secondary article style)

/******************************************************************************/

Creating An Article

Articles are a creation of three files. author.json / content.md / article.json

General Information

Image Locations

All images should be located on the CDN

Contributor icons : https://static-cashmusic.netdna-ssl.com/www/img/contributor

Article images : https://static-cashmusic.netdna-ssl.com/www/img/article/

Creative Commons License types

PD - (Public Domain - https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain) CC-0 - (Creative Commons: Public Domain Dedication - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) CC-BY - (Creative Commons: Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) CC-BY-NC - (Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) CC-BY-ND - (Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0) CC-BY-SA - (Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) CC-BY-NC-ND - (Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) CC-BY-NC-SA - (Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0)

Templates

Step One - Creating a new Author

New authors files should be added in content > authors

This is a basic .json structure

/******************************************************************************/

{
  "id":"maggievail",
  "name":"Maggie Vail",
  "byline":"Executive Director, CASH Music",
  "links":[
    {
      "title":"@magicbeans",
      "url":"https://twitter.com/magicbeans"
    }
  ],
  "photo":{
    "url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/715427964838498304/h2xhzfZk_400x400.jpg",
    "license":"",
    "credits":[
      {
        "username":"@polytropos",
        "user_url":"https://www.flickr.com/photos/polytropos/1507925081/"
      }
    ]
  }
}

/******************************************************************************/

Step Two - Creating a new article reference

New authors files should be added in content > work

Files should be named to give an article memorable context. This is a basic .json structure

/******************************************************************************/

{
  "id":"maggievail",
  "author_id":"maggievail",
  "release_id":"first",
  "title":"Welcome to Watt",
  "description":"I believe deeply that being a musician is an important and valid vocation. Watt is here to help make it easier to be one.",
  "type":"writing",
  "date":"June 2, 2016",
  "license":"CC-BY",
  "assets":[
    {
      "type":"image",
      "license":"CC-BY",
      "url":"https://static-cashmusic.netdna-ssl.com/www/img/article/mv.gif",
      "credits":""
    }
  ],
  "tags":[
    "culture",
    "community",
    "sustainability",
    "independence"
  ],
  "template":"twocol-twothirds-hero",
  "template_blend":"",
  "template_bg_style":"bg-cover",
  "template_styles":"#maggievail{background-color:#3c3240;}",
  "template_additional":"light"
}