diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d80d090b..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-name: Build Pelican Site
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      settings:
-        required: true
-        description: "The path to your Pelican settings file (`pelican`'s `--settings` option), for example: 'publishconf.py'"
-        type: string
-      requirements:
-        required: false
-        default: "pelican"
-        description: "The Python requirements to install, for example to enable markdown and typogrify use: 'pelican[markdown] typogrify' or if you have a requirements file use: '-r requirements.txt'"
-        type: string
-      output-path:
-        required: false
-        default: "output/"
-        description: "Where to output the generated files (`pelican`'s `--output` option)"
-        type: string
-      theme:
-        required: false
-        default: ""
-        description: "The GitHub repo URL of a custom theme to use, for example: 'https://github.com/seanh/sidecar.git'"
-        type: string
-      python:
-        required: false
-        default: "3.12"
-        description: "The version of Python to use, for example: '3.12' (to use the most recent version of Python 3.12, this is faster) or '3.12.1' (to use an exact version, slower)"
-        type: string
-      siteurl:
-        required: false
-        default: ""
-        description: "The base URL of your web site (Pelican's SITEURL setting). If not passed this will default to the URL of your GitHub Pages site, which is correct in most cases."
-        type: string
-      feed_domain:
-        required: false
-        default: ""
-        description: "The domain to be prepended to feed URLs (Pelican's FEED_DOMAIN setting). If not passed this will default to the URL of your GitHub Pages site, which is correct in most cases."
-        type: string
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-  pages: write
-  id-token: write
-concurrency:
-  group: "build"
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: ${{ inputs.python }}
-      - name: Checkout theme
-        if: ${{ inputs.theme }}
-        run: git clone '${{ inputs.theme }}' .theme
-      - name: Configure GitHub Pages
-        id: pages
-        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
-      - name: Install requirements
-        run: pip install ${{ inputs.requirements }}
-      - name: Build Pelican site
-        shell: python
-        run: |
-          import subprocess
-
-          cmd = "pelican"
-          cmd += " --settings ${{ inputs.settings }}"
-          cmd += " --extra-settings"
-          cmd += """ SITEURL='"${{ inputs.siteurl || steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}"'"""
-          cmd += """ FEED_DOMAIN='"${{ inputs.feed_domain || steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}"'"""
-          cmd += " --output ${{ inputs.output-path }}"
-
-          if "${{ inputs.theme }}":
-              cmd += " --theme-path .theme"
-
-          subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, check=True)
-      - name: Fix permissions
-        run: |
-          chmod -c -R +rX "${{ inputs.output-path }}" | while read line; do
-            echo "::warning title=Invalid file permissions automatically fixed::$line"
-          done
-      - name: Upload artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          path: ${{ inputs.output-path }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_pages.yml b/.github/workflows/github_pages.yml
index f403b9f5..9c279ab1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/github_pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/github_pages.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Workflow for publishing to GitHub Pages.
+# Workflow for building the site and (optionally) publishing it to GitHub Pages.
 name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
 on:
   workflow_call:
@@ -37,25 +37,63 @@ on:
         default: ""
         description: "The domain to be prepended to feed URLs (Pelican's FEED_DOMAIN setting). If not passed this will default to the URL of your GitHub Pages site, which is correct in most cases."
         type: string
+      deploy:
+        required: false
+        default: true
+        description: "Whether to deploy the site. If true then build the site and deploy it. If false then just test that the site builds successfully but don't deploy anything."
+        type: boolean
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pages: write
   id-token: write
-concurrency:
-  group: "pages"
-  cancel-in-progress: false
 jobs:
   build:
-    uses: "getpelican/pelican/.github/workflows/build.yml@main"
-    with:
-      settings: ${{ inputs.settings }}
-      requirements: ${{ inputs.requirements }}
-      output-path: ${{ inputs.output-path }}
-      theme: ${{ inputs.theme }}
-      python: ${{ inputs.python }}
-      siteurl: ${{ inputs.siteurl }}
-      feed_domain: ${{ inputs.feed_domain }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ inputs.python }}
+      - name: Checkout theme
+        if: ${{ inputs.theme }}
+        run: git clone '${{ inputs.theme }}' .theme
+      - name: Configure GitHub Pages
+        id: pages
+        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
+      - name: Install requirements
+        run: pip install ${{ inputs.requirements }}
+      - name: Build Pelican site
+        shell: python
+        run: |
+          import subprocess
+
+          cmd = "pelican"
+          cmd += " --settings ${{ inputs.settings }}"
+          cmd += " --extra-settings"
+          cmd += """ SITEURL='"${{ inputs.siteurl || steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}"'"""
+          cmd += """ FEED_DOMAIN='"${{ inputs.feed_domain || steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}"'"""
+          cmd += " --output ${{ inputs.output-path }}"
+
+          if "${{ inputs.theme }}":
+              cmd += " --theme-path .theme"
+
+          subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, check=True)
+      - name: Fix permissions
+        run: |
+          chmod -c -R +rX "${{ inputs.output-path }}" | while read line; do
+            echo "::warning title=Invalid file permissions automatically fixed::$line"
+          done
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: ${{ inputs.output-path }}
   deploy:
+    concurrency:
+      group: "pages"
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+    if: ${{ inputs.deploy }}
     environment:
       name: github-pages
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}