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pelican-bootstrap3

This is a Bootstrap 3 theme for Pelican. It's fully responsive. Bootstrap 3 has seen an official, final release now, so I don't expect any breaking changes anymore. I will try to keep it up-to-date.

CONTRIBUTING

If you want to adjust this theme to your own liking, I encourage you to fork it. This theme has started to gather more and more attention in the form of stars and forks. If you make improvements that are useful to others and can make the theme better in general please don't hesitate to make a pull request. For contributing guidelines, look here

Installation

First:

git clone https://github.com/DandyDev/pelican-bootstrap3.git

Then:

Point the THEME variable in your pelicanconf.py to /path/to/pelican-bootstrap3

Usage

This theme honors the following standard Pelican settings:

  • Putting feeds in the <head> section:
    • FEED_ALL_ATOM
    • FEED_ALL_RSS
  • Template settings:
    • DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU
    • DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU
    • MENUITEMS
    • LINKS (Blogroll will be put in the sidebar instead of the head)
  • Analytics & Comments
    • GOOGLE_ANALYTICS
    • DISQUS_SITENAME
    • PIWIK_URL, PIWIK_SSL_URL and PIWIK_SITE_ID

It uses the tag_cloud variable for displaying tags in the sidebar. You can control the amount of tags shown with: TAG_CLOUD_MAX_ITEMS

Extras

Custom CSS

If you want to add custom css to the theme, without having to clone and maintain your own version of the theme, you can use the CUSTOM_CSS variable. The value is the location where you tell Pelican to put the file (see below):

CUSTOM_CSS = 'static/custom.css'

To tell Pelican to copy the relevant file to the desired destination, add the path to STATIC_PATHS and the destination to EXTRA_PATH_METADATA, like so:

# Tell Pelican to add 'extra/custom.css' to the output dir
STATIC_PATHS = ['images', 'extra/custom.css']

# Tell Pelican to change the path to 'static/custom.css' in the output dir
EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = {
    'extra/custom.css': {'path': 'static/custom.css'}
}

Pygments

You can choose the syntax highlighting style by using the PYGMENTS_STYLE variable to specify one of the built-in Pygments styles. By default the native style is used. The following styles are avaiable:

  • autumn
  • borland
  • bw
  • colorful
  • default
  • emacs
  • friendly
  • fruity
  • manni
  • monokai
  • murphy
  • native
  • pastie
  • perldoc
  • solarizeddark
  • solarizedlight
  • tango
  • trac
  • vim
  • vs

For a demo of the different Pygment styles, have a look here

Site Brand

You can provide a logo for your site using SITELOGO. For example: SITELOGO = 'images/my_site_logo.png'. You can then define the size of the logo using SITELOGO_SIZE. The width of the <img> element will be set accordingly.

By default the SITENAME will be shown as well. It's also possible to hide the site name using the HIDE_SITENAME flag.

Breadcrumbs

It's possible to show breadcrumbs in your site using the DISPLAY_BREADCRUMBS flag. By default the article category isn't shown in the breadcrumbs, if you wish to enable it, set the DISPLAY_CATEGORY_IN_BREADCRUMBS flag to True.

Navbar

If you wish to use the inverse navbar from Bootstrap, set the flag BOOTSTRAP_NAVBAR_INVERSE to True.

Related Posts

This theme has support for the Related Posts plugin. All you have to do, is enable the plugin, and the theme will do the rest.

Favicon

Set the FAVICON option in your pelicanconf.py. For example: FAVICON = 'images/favicon.png'

Sidebar options

The following things can be displayed on the sidebar:

  • Social links can be provided through the SOCIAL variable. If it's empty, the section will not be shown
    • In your pelicanconf.py provide your social links like this:
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/DaanDebie'),
          ('linkedin', 'http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldebie'),
          ('github', 'http://github.com/DandyDev'),)
  • Tags will be shown if DISPLAY_TAGS_ON_SIDEBAR is set to True
  • Categories will be shown if DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_SIDEBAR is set to True
  • Recent Posts will be shown if DISPLAY_RECENT_POSTS_ON_SIDEBAR is set to True
    • Use RECENT_POST_COUNT to control the amount of recent posts. Defaults to 5

To remove the sidebar entirely, set HIDE_SIDEBAR to True.

reStructuredText styles

If you're using reStructuredText for writing articles and pages, you can include the extra CSS styles that are used by the docutils-generated HTML by setting DOCUTIL_CSS to True. This can be done as a global setting or setting it in the metadata of a specific article or page.

Disqus comments

  • This theme sets identifiers for each article's comment threads. If you are switching from a theme that doesn't (such as the Pelican built-in default) this will result in existing comments getting lost. To prevent this, set DISQUS_NO_ID to True.
  • Set DISQUS_ID_PREFIX_SLUG to True if you have configured your article URLs such that the slug alone will likely not be unique. Ignored if DISQUS_NO_ID is True.
  • To show Disqus comment counts on the index page, set DISQUS_DISPLAY_COUNTS to True.

Content license

You can optionally declare a Creative Commons license for the content of your site. It will appear in the site's footer. To enable, use one of the following two ways for configuration.

  • To choose the license by name, set CC_LICENSE to the common abbreviated name of the license: "CC-BY" (require attribution), "CC-BY-SA" (require ShareAlike), "CC-BY-ND" (NoDerivatives) , "CC-BY-NC" (require attribution, no commercial reuse), "CC-BY-NC-SA" (require ShareAlike, no commercial reuse), or "CC-BY-NC-ND" (NoDerivatives, no commercial reuse).
  • Alternatively, choose the licence by features:
    • CC_LICENSE_DERIVATIVES - "yes" if permitted, "no" if not permitted, and "ShareAlike" if derivatives must be shared under the same terms.
    • CC_LICENSE_COMMERCIAL - "yes" if commercial reuse is permitted, and "no" otherwise.
  • Optionally, you can include attribution markup in the license mark by setting CC_ATTR_MARKUP to True.

The license choice mirrors the Creative Commons License Chooser. Source for the macro that renders the mark is at http://github.com/hlapp/cc-tools.

GitHub

The theme can show your most recently active GitHub repos in the sidebar. To enable, provide a GITHUB_USER. Appearance and behaviour can be controlled using the following variables:

  • GITHUB_REPO_COUNT
  • GITHUB_SKIP_FORK
  • GITHUB_SHOW_USER_LINK

Bootswatch and other Bootstrap 3 themes

I included all the lovely Bootstrap 3 themes from Bootswatch, built by Thomas Park. You can tell Pelican what Bootswatch theme to use, by setting BOOTSTRAP_THEME to the desired theme, in lowercase (ie. 'readable' or 'cosmo' etc.). My own site is using Readable. If you want to use any other Bootstrap 3 compatible theme, just put the minified CSS in the static/css directory and rename it using the following naming scheme: bootstrap.{theme-name}.min.css. Then update the BOOTSTRAP_THEME variable with the theme-name used.

Update: Readable has seen some major changes. I added the new version as 'readable' and renamed the old version to 'readable-old'. Update your config accordingly.

AddThis

You can enable sharing buttons through AddThis by setting ADDTHIS_PROFILE to your AddThis profile-id. This will display a Tweet, Facebook Like and Google +1 button under each post.

Facebook Open Graph

In order to make the Facebook like button work better, the template contains Open Graph metatags like <meta property="og:type" content="article"/>. You can disable them by setting USE_OPEN_GRAPH to False. You can use OPEN_GRAPH_FB_APP_ID to provide a Facebook app id. You can also provide a default image that will be passed to Facebook for the homepage of you site by setting OPEN_GRAPH_IMAGE to a relative file path, which will be prefixed by your site's static directory.

Footer

The footer will display a copyright message using the AUTHOR variable and the year of the latest post. If a content license mark is enabled (see above), that will be shown as well.

Screenshot

Live example

This is my website