How to create themes for pelican ################################ Pelican uses the great `jinja2 `_ templating engine to generate it's HTML output. Structure ========= To make your own theme, you must follow the following structure:: ├── static │   ├── css │   └── images └── templates ├── archives.html ├── article.html ├── categories.html ├── category.html ├── index.html ├── page.html ├── tag.html └── tags.html * `static` contains all the static content. It will be copied on the output `theme/static` folder then. I've put the css and image folders, but they are just examples. Put what you need here. * `templates` contains all the templates that will be used to generate the content. I've just put the mandatory templates here, you can define your own if it helps you to organize yourself while doing the theme. Templates and variables ======================= It's using a simple syntax, that you can embbed into your html pages. This document describes which templates should exists on a theme, and which variables will be passed to each template, while generating it. All templates will receive the variables defined in your settings file, if they are in caps. You can access them directly. Common variables ---------------- ============= =================================================== Variable Description ============= =================================================== articles That's the list of articles, ordsered desc. by date all the elements are `Article` objects, so you can access their properties (e.g. title, summary, author etc. dates The same list of article, but ordered by date, ascending tags A dict containing each tags (keys), and the list of relative articles. categories A dict containing each category (keys), and the list of relative articles. pages The list of pages ============= =================================================== category.html ------------- ============= =================================================== Variable Description ============= =================================================== articles The articles of this category category The name of the category being processed ============= =================================================== article.html ------------- ============= =================================================== Variable Description ============= =================================================== article The article object to be displayed category The name of the category of the current article ============= =================================================== tag.html -------- ============= =================================================== Variable Description ============= =================================================== tag The name of the tag being processed articles Articles related to this tag ============= ===================================================