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