Pelican-red

Pelican-red is a pelican theme originally created for my blog rangerTBC. I have added some additional features to what I required and am releasing it for anyone to use. The theme is responsive using the Foundation 4 framework as a base.

Features ( EDIT THIS )

The following is a list of features:

• Responsive design viewable on mobile down to 380px wide without issue (article date issue atm)
• Fixed top-bar w/drop-down navigation & social links
  • Social links supported
    • Google+
    • Github
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • more...
  • Hidden drop-down navigation
    • accessed on hovering site name / menu icon
    • fixed to 100% browser window height
    • scroll-able?
    • mobile version via swipe?
• Style-sheets built using sass & compass
• zeptos.js used instead of jQuery when possible
• Analytics via Google Analytics or GoSquared
• Disqus comments support
• pygments code highlighting

• more...

Install

To install pelican-red first either clone the repository or download the zip of the current version to a destination of your choice (~/pelican-red used in example):

git clone https:// ~/pelican-red

or

download zip url thingy
extract

The theme can then either be used by installing the theme or just by pointing to it.

Option 1 - Install

Using pelican-themes (~/pelican-red is path to the theme used in previous example):

pelican-themes --install ~/pelican-red

Then change the theme in the Pelican settings file for the site you want to use pelican-red:

THEME = "pelican-red"

Option 2 - Just Point to It

Edit your Pelican settings file for the site you want to use pelican-red (~/pelican-red is path to the theme used in previous example):

THEME = "~/pelican-red"

Configuration

In addition the to general Pelican configuration variables pelican-red supports a few additional settings. All the variables are set in your Pelican settings file for the site you are using pelican-red with.

Variables are listed as variable : description

General

• SITE_DESCR: Description of site used for meta if you want
• SITE_KEY: Keywords for meta ex. "keyword1, keyword2, keyword3"

Social

• TODO

Comments ( Disqus )

• DISQUS_SN: Disqus Shortname of site ( rangertbc )

Analytics ( Google Analytics and GoSquared )

• GA_CODE: Google Analytics Code ( UA-xxxxxxxx-x )
• GA_DOMAIN: Google Analytics Domain for use across sub-domains of a top level domain ( rangertbc.net )
• GA_LINKER: Google Analytics multiple top level domains set to True if wanted ( rangertbc.net, rangertbc.com, etc )
• GS_CODE: GoSquared Code ( GSN-xxxxxx-x )

Per Post / Page Variables

In addition to the additional configuration variables the theme supports the following variables in posts / pages.

• TODO

Previews

A live preview of the theme can be seen on my blog rangerTBC.

Previews of the site main page are shown below as desktop and mobile.

Desktop Preview

INSERT SITE PREVIEW

Mobile Preview

INSERT MOBILE PREVIEW

Change-log ( Major Only)

• 0.1.0 First Release