"Generate Static Website" button to "export as a static website" is generating nothing

#1

I was trying this tutorial and got stuck at step 3, Export as a static website. The Generate website button does not generate a website when I click it. I see nothing happening. What can I do?

I also saw Anne link here (How to use TiddlyWiki as a static website generator in 3 steps - Ness Labs) but not instruct to use the info. Does it have answers?

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#2

Which OS do you use?

#3

I did test the second link “How to use TiddlyWiki as a static website generator in 3 steps” and it works. So all the commands that are pasted will work for a “Linux-like” system.

They won’t work for Windows, since Windows is picky using $:/ in the command line.

I’m using Windows 10 and PowerShell as the command line.

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#4

I’m testing the first link atm. —> I’m done

The first link also works, but is in sum more complex to do it right.

#5

I have to say that I exactly know, how to create static sites from TW. So I did test, if the code when copy / pasted works as intended. … And it does.

So it’s important to know, which OS you use!

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#6

Is windows10 an OS? That, if so.

#7

Yes. Windows 10 is an OperatingSystem. …

#8

@jam The 2 links you posted are 2 very different ways to create a static site with TiddlyWiki.

  • The first link describes the possibility to export a static site from a “single file wiki” as a ZIP-file.
  • The second link describes the possibility to export the static site with the help of the tiddlywiki command line tool.

Both mechanisms are valid but depend on what you need.

I was trying this tutorial and got stuck at step 3, Export as a static website. The Generate website button does not generate a website when I click it. I see nothing happening. What can I do?

The problem, that I found with the blog post is, that it has to be read very, very carefully. It’s easy to skip one step. Skipping a step will result in a failure.

The 3rd step has several 100 words and describes a lot of different steps. So it’s very hard to know for us, where you had a problem. So please be more specific.

I also saw Anne link here (How to use TiddlyWiki as a static website generator in 3 steps - Ness Labs ) but not instruct to use the info. Does it have answers?

As I wrote, it uses a completely different approach. It needs you to install the nodejs software and work with a text based terminal. Most users are not familiar with command line interfaces and terminals. … So as I wrote it depends. …

#9

I have had good use of the description and TiddlyJam plugin Created by Adithya Badidey TiddlyJam. Maybe you could use it too.

#10

ok, thanks. So does that mean to use the first method? I pasted the code but the button didn’t trigger anything