By default the wp-github-gist WordPress Plugin uses my own gist-it server which is hosted on a free Google App engine account. If you expect significant amount of traffic to your blog, then do consider deploying your own gist-it server.
Following are the set of instructions that you have to follow to deploy your own gist-it server.
Getting the source code
The source code for the gist-it server is available in my github account. The current stable code is in the Plugin branch.
You can either download the zip file or use git. If you decide to use git, you have to execute the following commands.
Registering a new Google App engine application
The next step is to create a new app in Google App Engine.
Change the app id in source code
Open the app.yaml file and specify your new application id next to the application tag
Deploy your app
Follow the instructions given by Google to deploy your application. You can also checkout this Youtube video
Change the gist-it server
After you have deployed your own gist-it server, go to the Plugin’s setting page and change the gist-it server url to your own gist-it server
I want to use your plugin to display content of Github file on my blog post.The plugin configuration is easy.
But I want to know the role of GIST IT server (your appengine) in this plugin.
@Esha,
The Gist It server is basically used to get the content from github and then provide it to the plugin in a format that it can understand after truncating the lines if needed. You can check the full source code of the gist-it server at https://github.com/sudar/gist-it
could not make it run 🙁
wish you had more detail on how to do this and not just reference to external links…
🙁