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# pelican-alchemy
A magical ✨ [Pelican](http://getpelican.com) theme. Inspired by [crowsfoot](http://github.com/porterjamesj/crowsfoot) and [clean-blog](https://github.com/BlackrockDigital/startbootstrap-clean-blog).
pelican-alchemy is a functional, clean, responsive theme for the [Pelican](http://getpelican.com) static site generator. It is heavily inspired by [crowsfoot](http://github.com/porterjamesj/crowsfoot) and [clean-blog](https://github.com/BlackrockDigital/startbootstrap-clean-blog), and is powered by [Bootstrap](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap) (v3.x).
Powered by [Bootstrap](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap) (v3.x).
## Features
---
## Screenshot
Live demo: [nairobilug.or.ke](http://nairobilug.or.ke)
![Screenshot](/screenshot.png "Screenshot")
- Core Pygments [styles](http://pygments.org/demo/)
- External analytics (Google Analytics, Gauges, Piwik)
- External comments (Disqus)
- realfavicongenerator [package](http://realfavicongenerator.net/blog/new-favicon-package-less-is-more/) support
- Font icons (Font Awesome)
- No external dependencies
- No JavaScript (excl. Analytics & Comments)
- Packaged webfonts
- Simple Jinja2 templates
- `sitemap.xml` support
## Installation
First:
$ git clone git@github.com:nairobilug/pelican-alchemy.git
Then set the pelican config variable `THEME` to the `alchemy` folder inside the cloned path.
Then:
### Theme Options
Point the `THEME` variable in your pelican config to the `alchemy` folder inside the repo (`/path/to/pelican-alchemy/alchemy`).
| Config | Type | Description |
| ------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------- |
| SITE_TAGLINE | TEXT | Site tagline/slogan |
| SITE_DESCRIPTION | TEXT | HEAD meta description |
| SITE_IMAGE | URL | Site (profile) image |
| SHOW_ARTICLE_AUTHOR | BOOL | Show article authors |
| SHOW_FAVICONS | BOOL | Show favicons [^1] |
| SHOW_FOOTER_ARCHIVES | BOOL | Show `Archives` link |
| SHOW_FOOTER_AUTHORS | BOOL | Show `Authors` link |
| SHOW_FOOTER_CATEGORIES | BOOL | Show `Categories` link |
| SHOW_FOOTER_TAGS | BOOL | Show `Tags` link |
| SHOW_HEADER_PAGES | BOOL | Show 'Pages' links |
| HEADER_LINKS | LIST | `('title', 'url')` list |
| GITHUB_ADDRESS | URL | Github link icon |
| TWITTER_ADDRESS | URL | Twitter link icon |
| GOOGLE_ADDRESS | URL | Google+ link icon |
| EMAIL_ADDRESS | EMAIL | Email link (`mailto:`) |
| FACEBOOK_ADDRESS | URL | Facebook link icon |
| DISQUS_SITENAME | TEXT | Disqus comments |
## Settings
An RSS icon will also appear on the nav if `FEED_ALL_ATOM` is set.
Unless otherwise specified, settings that refer to paths can be either absolute or relative to the configuration file.
## License
### SITESUBTITLE
MIT License
Subtitle that appears in the header:
[^1]: http://realfavicongenerator.net "realfavicongenerator.net"
SITESUBTITLE = 'A magical \u2728 Pelican theme'
### SITEIMAGE
Image that appears in the header:
SITEIMAGE = '/images/profile.png'
You can also force the image size:
SITEIMAGE = '/images/profile.svg width=200 height=200'
### DESCRIPTION
Index `<meta name="description" content="...">`:
DESCRIPTION = 'A functional, clean, responsive theme for Pelican. Heavily ' \
'inspired by crowsfoot and clean-blog, powered by Bootstrap.'
### LINKS
A list of tuples (Title, URL) for menu links:
LINKS = (
('Pelican', 'http://getpelican.com/'),
('Python.org', 'http://python.org/'),
('Jinja2', 'http://jinja.pocoo.org/'),
)
### ICONS
A list of tuples (Icon, URL) for icon links:
ICONS = (
('feed', '/feeds/all.atom.xml'),
('github', 'https://github.com/nairobilug/pelican-alchemy'),
)
A [Font Awesome icon](http://fontawesome.io/icons/) without the `fa-` prefix.
### PYGMENTS_STYLE
You can choose one of the built-in Pygments styles for syntax highlighting.
By default the `default` style is used:
PYGMENTS_STYLE = 'default'
The following styles are available:
- algol
- algol_nu
- autumn
- borland
- bw
- colorful
- default
- emacs
- friendly
- fruity
- igor
- lovelace
- manni
- monokai
- murphy
- native
- paraiso-dark
- paraiso-light
- pastie
- perldoc
- rrt
- tango
- trac
- vim
- vs
- xcode
For a demo of the different styles, click [here](http://pygments.org/demo/).
### HIDE_AUTHORS
Hide the author(s) of an article - useful for single author sites:
HIDE_AUTHORS = True
### NEW_FAVICONS
Use a [realfavicongenerator](https://realfavicongenerator.net/blog/new-favicon-package-less-is-more/) favicon package:
NEW_FAVICONS = True
### Other Settings
DISQUS_SITENAME = '...'
GAUGES = '...'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS = '...'
PIWIK_URL = '...'
PIWIK_SITE_ID = '...'
An RSS icon will also appear on header if `FEED_ALL_ATOM` is set.