So I've recently refactored the entire blog to use some plugins that I've developed for Fresh. In a recent PR you can see how I deleted most of the code from this project, and I instead reference two plugins:
These plugins should allow people to skip over some of the drudgery and just get straight on with what they were trying to do, namely building a blog or adding google analytics to their site.
Look for a bunch of enhancements to the blog plugin in the next month!