Sleek Tern Theme for Pelican

A clean, elegant and simple theme for the Pelican static site generator. Fully responsive, feeds support.

Download the latest stable release from git.ix5.org.

Features

• Easy on the eyes, subtle and tastefully elegant
• Responsive, with a print stylesheet
• MIT-licensed
• Pelican version 4.6 ready
• Smart link underlines
• MENUITEMS support to customize navbar
• Support for embedding isso commenting system
• Plugin support:
  • post_stats Display word count and estimated reading time of articles
  • series Publish multi-part articles. The first page in the series displays an overview of all articles in that series, subsequent ones have next and previous links at the bottom
  • tagcloud Draw a tag cloud with varying sizes

Instructions

The following variables should be set to utilize all features of the theme:

• SITETUBTITLE for a short byline
• SITEDESCRIPTION to set a short(~160 characters) <meta desc>
• DIRECT_TEMPLATES = ['tagcloud', 'index', 'categories', 'archives', 'tags']
• SUBFOLDER_NAME to name the 'Home' link differently, e.g. if your pelican site lives at example.com/blog/, set it to 'Blog'

Theme defaults

• DISPLAY_FOOTER = True Display a footer with pelican credits and links to feeds
• ARTICLE_STATS_IN_ARCHIVES = False Display word count and estimated reading time in archives
• FAVICON = dict(url='path_to/favicon.ico', type='image/ico') Set a favicon, must be a dict
• DISPLAY_CATEGORY_IN_POST = True Show category link at the bottom of articles
• DISPLAY_TAGS = True Display tags at the end of an article

Recommendations

• PAGINATION_PATTERNS, else the theme has to fall back on .html links
• TYPOGRIFY = True for better typography with typogrify (smart quotes, ...→… etc.)
• AUTHOR_SAVE_AS = '' if there is only one author
• *_SAVE_AS for prettier URLs
• DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = False if you have too many pages to fit into the navbar
• In order for pelican to print out dates using English text, set LOCALE and DATE_FORMATS, see Time and Date
• Concerning the series plugin:
  • The first page in the series displays an overview of all articles in that series, subsequent ones have next and previous links at the bottom and a small hint that they belong to a series
  • The series plugin does not work well with translations. The theme will not crash, but will disable certain features
• Concerning the isso commenting system feature, put something like this in your publishconf.py:

  # Isso commenting system
  ISSO_SITEURL = 'https://example.com/isso'
  # ISSO_SETTINGS is needed
  ISSO_SETTINGS = {
      'css': 'true',
      'lang': 'en',
      'vote': 'false',
      'avatar': 'true',
      'require-author': 'true',
      'reply-to-self': 'true',
      'js-embed-url': '%s/js/embed.min.js' % ISSO_SITEURL
  }
  

Contributors

• Nevan Scott (Chyrp theme)
• wrl (Port to pelican, pelican-mockingbird)
• Jody Frankowski (Blue Penguin)
• Grimbox (Contributor to Blue Penguin)

Name

The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae.
Since this theme descends from numerous other projects named after birds (Pelican, Mockingbird, Penguin), the name reflects its heritage but also its sleek nature.

License

• Theme: MIT(see below)
• CSS: MIT
• Typefaces: SIL OFL 1.1

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2021 Felix Elsner et al.

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