The Architect theme

This is a Pelican port of the popular Architect Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages. You can preview the theme to see what it looks like, or even use it today.

Usage

To use the Architect theme:

1. If you don't have webassets and cssmin installed, you'll need to install them. You can do so by running:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Copy the themes\architect folder to your own Pelican blog.
3. Copy the variables from the pelicanconf.py folder. The following lines are particularly important:

   # Set theme
   THEME = 'themes/architect'
   
   # Load plugins
   PLUGIN_PATHS = ['plugins']
   PLUGINS = ['assets']
   
   # Let the assets plugin deal with css
   IGNORE_FILES = ['*.css']
   

Previewing the theme locally

If you'd like to preview the theme locally (for example, in the process of proposing a change):

1. Clone down the theme's repository (git clone https://github.com/MattWThomas/architect-pelican.git)
2. cd into the theme's directory
3. Run the following to install necessary dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Run pelican content to generate the files.
5. Run pelican --listen ./output to start the preview server
6. Visit localhost:8000 in your browser to preview the theme