A Static Blog Based on Pelican

Installation

Install Pelican, Markdown and other requirements

pip install -r requirments.txt

You need the pelican-themes repo (You should probably fork it).

git@github.com:chrisdev/pelican-themes.git

Settings

My current settings.py file

AUTHOR = 'Christopher Clarke'
DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT = '%A, %B %d, %Y'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'chrisdev'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/chrisdev/chrisdev.github.com'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS=''
SITEURL = 'http://blog.chrisdev.com'
FEED_DOMAIN = SITEURL
SITENAME = 'chrisdev'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/realchrisdev'),
          ('github', 'https://github.com/chrisdev'),
          ('facebook', 'http://www.facebook.com/chrisdevtt'),)
TAG_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/%s.atom.xml'
THEME='../pelican-themes/chrisdev_zf'
TIMEZONE = "America/Port_of_Spain"
TWITTER_USERNAME = 'realchrisdev'

Updating

Simply run

pelican . -o . -s settings.py
git commit
git push

Browse to http://chrisdev.github.io to see the site

TO Do

• Set up a custom domain
• More styling of for example I want a topbar, twitter buttons my pic etc.
• Proper pygments styling