My blog

The repository contains my personal blog code. The blog is built by Pelican static site generator. It is used pelican-bootstrap3 theme.

The included plugins are

1. tipue_search.
2. more_categories.
3. minify.

The changes to pelican-bootstrap3 theme are

1. Modified article_info.html template to include more_categories implementation.
2. Modified article_list.html template and style.css to line up vertically article image and header.
3. Modified article_list.html template to add alt attribute to article logo images. SEO requests that all images have to have alt attribute. Logo images should be located in a folder, for example, extra and names should include - character to separate words. Cover: /extra/synology-logo.png is converted to alt="Synology logo".
4. Modified base.html template to add Meta Description Tag. It's mandatory SEO element. pelicanconf.py file should have SITE_DESCRIPTION variable, for example SITE_DESCRIPTION = 'A personal blog.'.
5. Modified base.html template to add alt attribute to site logo image. The value is SITENAME. SEO requests that all images have to have alt attribute.
6. Modified base.html template and style.css to (1) add search icon, (2) reduce search input field height, and (3) line up search input field for desktop and mobile in tipue_search.
7. Modified article_list.html to make article labels with left and right paddings.
8. Added page views counter to article pages.
9. Added Google Analytics 4.
   • blog_metrics.js
   • ga.html
   • article.html
10. Implemented formatting of the page views field.
    • article.html
11. Replaced Google Universal live analytics with historical one as Universal analytics is retired Jun 1, 2024.
    • blog_metrics_universal.js
    • article.html

The actual blog is located here.