Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
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Justin Mayer 81cd781c45 Show setting defaults as actual code
For some reason, setting names on the Settings page have long been
wrapped in single back-ticks (usually meant for linking in reST) instead
of double back-ticks (meant for denoting code). This seems to be
widespread throughout the docs, and it's not clear if this is
intentional or simply a reST formatting error that got propagated by
others in order to stay consistent. This commit applies double
back-ticks in any case where something resembling code is shown, with
the idea that single back-ticks should only be used when linking.

More importantly, the settings denoted their default values in
parentheses, which hapless users often included when copying and pasting
these values into their config files. As one can imagine, confusion —
not hilarity — ensued. Setting defaults are now shown as they would
actually appear in one's settings file, with an equal sign and without
parentheses.

During this spelunking expedition, many other minor improvements were
concurrently conducted.
2014-04-30 12:35:13 -07:00
docs Show setting defaults as actual code 2014-04-30 12:35:13 -07:00
pelican Fix #1277 use rsync -c option as all output is rewritten 2014-04-28 22:12:14 +02:00
samples The modified attribute no longer has a default value. 2013-11-17 23:40:11 +01:00
.gitattributes Fixed line ending problems by adding a .gitattributes file 2012-11-29 15:00:44 +01:00
.gitignore Port pelican to python 3. 2013-01-11 03:20:09 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add mappings to consolidate author names and emails 2013-04-12 10:51:48 -04:00
.travis.yml Add Python 3.4 to Travic CI configuration 2014-04-30 06:44:55 -07:00
bumpr.rc Modify sed command in bumpr.rc to support BSD 2013-09-24 21:37:53 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.rst Add squashing to CONTRIBUTING docs. Fix URLs. 2014-02-14 14:37:54 -08:00
dev_requirements.txt Added new sphinxtheme as requirement for docs Modified docs conf to support the theme update 2014-04-15 10:37:25 -04:00
LICENSE Include the complete license rather than the short version. See #103 2011-04-26 13:46:02 +01:00
MANIFEST.in Don't include all the .py files in the root folder 2013-06-07 00:50:51 +02:00
README.rst split content caching into two layers 2014-04-20 14:34:52 +02:00
setup.cfg Build Pelican wheels in universal format 2013-11-13 13:44:28 -08:00
setup.py change date metadata parsing to dateutil.parser 2014-02-23 11:21:44 +01:00
THANKS Document video support in Markdown and reST. 2013-10-25 10:52:13 +02:00
tox.ini Add python 3.4 to tox config. 2014-04-17 22:57:26 +02:00

Pelican
=======

.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/getpelican/pelican.png?branch=master
   :target: http://travis-ci.org/getpelican/pelican
   :alt: Travis-ci: continuous integration status.

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python_.

* Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!)
  in reStructuredText_ or Markdown_
* Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog
* Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks
* Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Features
--------

Pelican currently supports:

* Blog articles and pages
* Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while
  useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be
  somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)
* Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2_ templates)
* PDF generation of the articles/pages (optional)
* Publication of articles in multiple languages
* Atom/RSS feeds
* Code syntax highlighting
* Import from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feeds
* Integration with external tools: Twitter, Google Analytics, etc. (optional)
* Fast rebuild times thanks to content caching and selective output writing.

Have a look at the `Pelican documentation`_ for more information.

Why the name "Pelican"?
-----------------------

"Pelican" is an anagram for *calepin*, which means "notebook" in French. ;)

Source code
-----------

You can access the source code at: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

If you feel hackish, have a look at the explanation of `Pelican's internals`_.

Feedback / Contact us
---------------------

If you want to see new features in Pelican, don't hesitate to offer
suggestions, clone the repository, etc. There are many ways to contribute_.
That's open source, dude!

Send a message to "authors at getpelican dot com" with any requests/feedback! You
can also join the team at `#pelican on Freenode`_ (or if you don't have an IRC
client handy, use the webchat_ for quick feedback.

.. Links

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _`Pelican documentation`: http://docs.getpelican.com/latest/
.. _`Pelican's internals`: http://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/internals.html
.. _`#pelican on Freenode`: irc://irc.freenode.net/pelican
.. _webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=pelican&uio=d4
.. _contribute: http://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/contribute.html