Building the PyCon Thailand 2020 website > 2021 website

Deploying to https://th.pycon.org/

Local development

Install pelican

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run Pelican local server with automatic rebuild

pelican --autoreload --listen

Clone the repo and start a site

git clone www2021
cd www2021
# pelican-quickstart # Only necessary the first time, already done

Specify the theme to use

pelican-themes --symlink theme

Specify THEME = 'theme' in pelicanconf.py

Content editing

Create posts (listed chronologically) in Markdown format in ./content/. Create pages (about, programme, etc.) in ./content/pages/. Translations are specified using the lang metadata, see Translations for details.

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Syncing content from Notion

This is work in progress, the building blocks are there but I haven't completed the config (API token, pages in Notion).

Content that is maintained in Notion doesn't need to be committed to git. In fact, committing it to git would probably just confuse things. So commit special pages, such as e.g. the frontpage if it has special layout, as e.g. ./content/pages/frontpage.html and enlist developer support in updating it.

In order to retrieve pages from Notion on your machine, install the API and configure the API key:

pip install --user notion
export NOTION_BLOG_POSTS_PAGE=https://www.notion.so/pyconth/News-08d5aa2f573348e1b96671488947f997
export NOTION_TOKEN=...

Grab the API key from your browser session (see https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py#quickstart).

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TODO

• Setup automatic sync.

Strapi

Download content from strapi:

make strapi/download

See README.md