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1 Blog Reboot with Pelican
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2 ########################
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4 :date: 2014-02-01 14:30
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5 :tags: Blogging, Pelican, Blogophile
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6 :slug: blog-reboot-with-pelican
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7 :author: Brian Neal
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9 I've rebooted my blog with Pelican_! I've been wanting to refresh the look of
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10 my blog for some time. Blogofile_ has been very good to me, but there seems to
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11 be more activity in the Pelican world, including lots of nice themes. So I took
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12 a few evenings and played around with Pelican. After seeing how configurable it
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13 is and that I could easily keep the existing URLs (at least the important ones)
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14 from my Blogofile blog I decided to convert.
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16 I wrote a script to convert my posts to the format Pelican expected. This was
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17 quite easy as they both accept reStructuredText_ and mostly involved updating
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18 the metadata that appears at the top of each post. I found the cool `Pelican
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19 Bootstrap 3 theme`_ by Daan Debie. I even submitted a pull request for it to
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20 update how it does pagination. This was my first pull request on GitHub!
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21 Achievement unlocked!
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23 I look forward to writing some more blog posts with this platform. I plan on
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24 updating the Fabric_ file with a command to produce a skeleton post template.
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26 .. _Pelican: http://blog.getpelican.com/
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27 .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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28 .. _Blogofile: http://www.blogofile.com/
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29 .. _Pelican Bootstrap 3 theme: https://github.com/DandyDev/pelican-bootstrap3
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30 .. _Fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/
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