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New blog post on rebooting blog with Pelican.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:29:54 -0600
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+Blog Reboot with Pelican
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+:date: 2014-02-01 14:30
+:tags: Blogging, Pelican, Blogophile
+:slug: blog-reboot-with-pelican
+:author: Brian Neal
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+I've rebooted my blog with Pelican_! I've been wanting to refresh the look of
+my blog for some time. Blogofile_ has been very good to me, but there seems to
+be more activity in the Pelican world, including lots of nice themes. So I took
+a few evenings and played around with Pelican. After seeing how configurable it
+is and that I could easily keep the existing URLs (at least the important ones)
+from my Blogofile blog I decided to convert.
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+I wrote a script to convert my posts to the format Pelican expected. This was
+quite easy as they both accept reStructuredText_ and mostly involved updating
+the metadata that appears at the top of each post. I found the cool `Pelican
+Bootstrap 3 theme`_ by Daan Debie.  I even submitted a pull request for it to
+update how it does pagination. This was my first pull request on GitHub!
+Achievement unlocked!
+
+I look forward to writing some more blog posts with this platform. I plan on
+updating the Fabric_ file with a command to produce a skeleton post template.
+
+.. _Pelican: http://blog.getpelican.com/
+.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
+.. _Blogofile: http://www.blogofile.com/
+.. _Pelican Bootstrap 3 theme: https://github.com/DandyDev/pelican-bootstrap3
+.. _Fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/