Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
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Joao Moreira d521e0234d Add current date when publishing to GitHub Pages
The current gh_pages Fabric task publishes the build website with the default "Update documentation" commit message. That is not very informative. This change adds the current date upon publishing so we can better track the build history.
2017-01-04 14:19:03 -06:00
docs Replace m-dash with semi-colon in changelog 2016-12-31 15:10:46 -08:00
pelican Add current date when publishing to GitHub Pages 2017-01-04 14:19:03 -06:00
requirements Fixes 2059: Fix sphinx version to 1.4.9 for docs tests 2016-12-10 12:42:35 -05:00
samples Merge pull request #1602 from ltiao/patch-1 2015-04-01 08:05:40 +09:00
.coveragerc [coveralls] Exclude tests from coverage 2014-06-24 22:29:36 +01:00
.gitattributes Add missing .gitattributes attributes. Refs #2069 2016-12-23 08:03:57 -08:00
.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 3.5 testing environment 2015-10-22 09:45:21 +02:00
bumpr.rc Match space with POSIX sed when bumping via bumpr 2015-06-14 10:12:52 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.rst Fix description of the search bar's positon 2016-04-12 22:48:04 +02:00
LICENSE Include the complete license rather than the short version. See #103 2011-04-26 13:46:02 +01:00
MANIFEST.in Add missing *.markdown files to PyPI sdist 2015-08-07 14:46:12 +10:00
README.rst Remove download statistics badge from README 2016-12-12 11:07:13 -08:00
setup.cfg Revert setup.py changes. Ensure universal wheels. 2014-07-01 14:33:04 -07:00
setup.py Specify encoding for README and CHANGELOG in setup.py 2017-01-03 21:51:23 +03:00
THANKS doc: updates MARKDOWN 2016-11-02 21:11:42 +01:00
tox.ini Fixes 2059: Fix sphinx version to 1.4.9 for docs tests 2016-12-10 12:42:35 -05:00

Pelican |build-status| |pypi-version|
=====================================

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python_.

* Write content in reStructuredText_ or Markdown_ using your editor of choice
* Includes a simple command line tool to (re)generate site files
* Easy to interface with version control systems and web hooks
* Completely static output is simple to host anywhere


Features
--------

Pelican currently supports:

* Chronological content (e.g., articles, blog posts) as well as static pages
* Integration with external services (e.g., Google Analytics and Disqus)
* Site themes (created using Jinja2_ templates)
* Publication of articles in multiple languages
* Generation of Atom and RSS feeds
* Syntax highlighting via Pygments_
* Importing existing content from WordPress, Dotclear, and other services
* Fast rebuild times due to content caching and selective output writing

Check out `Pelican's documentation`_ for further information.


How to get help, contribute, or provide feedback
------------------------------------------------

See our `contribution submission and feedback guidelines <CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_.


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

Pelican's source code is `hosted on GitHub`_. If you feel like hacking,
take a look at `Pelican's internals`_.


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

"Pelican" is an anagram of *calepin*, which means "notebook" in French.


.. Links

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
.. _`Pelican's documentation`: http://docs.getpelican.com/
.. _`Pelican's internals`: http://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/internals.html
.. _`hosted on GitHub`: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

.. |build-status| image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/getpelican/pelican/master.svg
   :target: https://travis-ci.org/getpelican/pelican
   :alt: Travis CI: continuous integration status
.. |pypi-version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pelican.svg
   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pelican
   :alt: PyPI: the Python Package Index