Pelican Persian date plugin

This is a Pelican (Static Site Generator) plugin.

This plugin converts article.locale_date attribute from Gregorian calendar into Solar Hijri calendar (AKA Jalali calendar, Persian calendar, Iranian calendar) which is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan.

Screenshot

• Output HTML result with Pelican's notmyidea theme

• Output HTML result with Pelican-RTL-theme

Installation

1. Get the plugin in any way which is convenient for you. for example:
   • Clone the repository into plugins directory

   git clone https://github.com/ziaa/pelican_persian_date.git
   

   • Or add the repository as a submodule in plugins directory

   git submodule add -b master https://github.com/ziaa/pelican_persian_date.git plugins/pelican_persian_date
   

2. Activate the plugin in your pelicanconf.py setting file (more information on using pelican plugins + +)

# Plugins
PLUGIN_PATHS = ['path/to/plugins']
PLUGINS = ["pelican_persian_date"]

3. Define date format in pelicanconf.py (more information on format codes)

DATE_FORMATS = {
    'fa': '%A %d %B %Y'
}

Requirement & testing environment

I'm using this plugin on Windows with Python v3.4.3 & Pelican v3.6.0 installed. Perhaps it will work on other platforms & versions.