Pelican Plugins

Beginning with version 3.0, Pelican supports plugins. Plugins are a way to add features to Pelican without having to directly modify the Pelican core. Starting with 3.2, all plugins (including the ones previously in the core) are moved here, so this is the central place for all plugins.

How to use plugins

Easiest way to install and use these plugins is cloning this repo:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins

and activating the ones you want in your settings file:

PLUGIN_PATHS = ['path/to/pelican-plugins']
PLUGINS = ['assets', 'sitemap', 'gravatar']

PLUGIN_PATHS can be a path relative to your settings file or an absolute path.

Alternatively, if plugins are in an importable path, you can omit PLUGIN_PATHS and list them:

PLUGINS = ['assets', 'sitemap', 'gravatar']

or you can import the plugin directly and give that:

import my_plugin
PLUGINS = [my_plugin, 'assets']

Plugin descriptions

Plugin	Description
Always modified	Copy created date metadata into modified date for easy "latest updates" indexes
AsciiDoc reader	Use AsciiDoc to write your posts.
Asset management	Use the Webassets module to manage assets such as CSS and JS files.
Auto Pages	Generate custom content for generated Author, Category, and Tag pages (e.g. author biography)
Backref Translate	Add a new attribute (is_translation_of) to every article/page (which is a translation) pointing back to the original article/page which is being translated
Better code samples	Wraps all table blocks with a class attribute .codehilitetable in an additional div of class .hilitewrapper. It thus permits to style codeblocks better, especially to make them scrollable.
Better figures/samples	Adds a style="width: ???px; height: auto;" attribute to any <img> tags in the content
bootstrapify	Automatically add bootstraps default classes to your content, usefull for md generated tables
CJK auto spacing	Inserts spaces between Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters and English words
Clean summary	Cleans your summary of excess images
Code include	Includes Pygments highlighted code in reStructuredText
Collate content	Makes categories of content available to the template as lists through a collations attribute
Creole reader	Allows you to write your posts using the wikicreole syntax
Custom article URLs	Adds support for defining different default URLs for different categories
Disqus static comments	Adds a disqus_comments property to all articles. Comments are fetched at generation time using disqus API
Encrypt content	Password protect pages and articles
Extract table of content	Extracts table of contents (ToC) from article.content
Feed Summary	Allows article summaries to be used in ATOM and RSS feeds instead of the entire article
Filetime from git	Uses git commit to determine page date
Figure References	Provides a system to number and references figures
Gallery	Allows an article to contain an album of pictures
Gist directive	This plugin adds a gist reStructuredText directive.
GitHub activity	On the template side, you just have to iterate over the github_activity variable
Global license	Allows you to define a LICENSE setting and adds the contents of that license variable to the article's context
Goodreads activity	Lists books from your Goodreads shelves
GooglePlus comments	Adds GooglePlus comments to Pelican
Gravatar	Assigns the author_gravatar variable to the Gravatar URL and makes the variable available within the article's context
Gzip cache	Enables certain web servers (e.g., Nginx) to use a static cache of gzip-compressed files to prevent the server from compressing files during an HTTP call
Headerid	This plugin adds an anchor to each heading so you can deeplink to headers in reStructuredText articles.
HTML entities	Allows you to enter HTML entities such as &copy;, &lt;, &#149; inline in a RST document
HTML tags for rST	Allows you to use HTML tags from within reST documents
I18N Sub-sites	Extends the translations functionality by creating internationalized sub-sites for the default site
ical	Looks for and parses an .ics file if it is defined in a given page's calendar metadata.
Image Process	Automates the processing of images based on their class attributes
Interlinks	Lets you add frequently used URLs to your markup using short keywords
Libravatar	Allows inclusion of user profile pictures from libravatar.org
Liquid-style tags	Allows liquid-style tags to be inserted into markdown within Pelican documents
Load CSV	Adds csv Jinja tag to display the contents of a CSV file as an HTML table
Multi parts posts	Allows you to write multi-part posts
Markdown Inline Extend	Enables you to add customize inline patterns to your markdown
Neighbor articles	Adds next_article (newer) and prev_article (older) variables to the article's context
Open graph	Generates Open Graph tags for your articles
Optimize images	Applies lossless compression on JPEG and PNG images
PDF generator	Automatically exports RST articles and pages as PDF files
PDF Images	If an img tag contains a PDF, EPS or PS file as a source, this plugin generates a PNG preview which will then act as a link to the original file.
Pelican-flickr	Brings your Flickr photos & sets into your static website
pelican_javascript	Allows you to embed Javascript and CSS files into individual articles
pelican-toc	Generates a Table of Contents and make it available to the theme via article.toc
Pelican Cite	Produces inline citations and a bibliography in articles and pages, using a BibTeX file.
Pelican Gist tag	Easily embed GitHub Gists in your Pelican articles
Pelican Page Order	Adds a page_order attribute to all pages if one is not defined.
Pelican comment system	Allows you to add static comments to your articles
Pelican Vimeo	Enables you to embed Vimeo videos in your pages and articles
Pelican YouTube	Enables you to embed YouTube videos in your pages and articles
pelicanfly	Lets you type things like i ♥ :fa-coffee: in your Markdown documents and have it come out as little Font Awesome icons in the browser
Pin to top	Pin Pelican's article(s) to top "Sticky article"
PlantUML	Allows you to define UML diagrams directly into rst documents using the great PlantUML tool
Post statistics	Calculates various statistics about a post and store them in an article.stats dictionary
Random article	Generates a html file which redirect to a random article
Read More link	Inserts an inline "read more" or "continue" link into the last html element of the object summary
Related posts	Adds the related_posts variable to the article's context
Markdown-metaYAML	Pelican reader to enable YAML-style metadata in markdown articles
Math Render	Gives pelican the ability to render mathematics
Panorama	Creates charts from posts metadata
Replacer	Replace a text of a generated HTML
Representative image	Extracts a representative image (i.e, featured image) from the article's summary or content
RMD Reader	Create posts via knitr RMarkdown files
Share post	Creates share URLs of article
Simple footnotes	Adds footnotes to blog posts
Sitemap	Generates plain-text or XML sitemaps
Slim	Render theme template files via Plim, a Python port of Slim, instead of Jinja
Static comments	Allows you to add static comments to an article
Subcategory	Adds support for subcategories
Summary	Allows easy, variable length summaries directly embedded into the body of your articles
tag_cloud	Provides a tag_cloud
Thumbnailer	Creates thumbnails for all of the images found under a specific directory
Tipue Search	Serializes generated HTML to JSON that can be used by jQuery plugin - Tipue Search
Touch	Does a touch on your generated files using the date metadata from the content
Twitter Bootstrap	Defines some rst directive that enable a clean usage of the twitter bootstrap CSS and Javascript components
W3C validate	Submits generated HTML content to the W3C Markup Validation Service

Please refer to the Readme file in a plugin's folder for detailed information about that plugin.

Contributing a plugin

Please refer to the Contributing file.