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

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.

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/