Awesome Pelican

A curated list of awesome open-source libraries, software and resources that are directly related to Pelican, the static-site-generator.

Inspired by awesome-python.

What's different here from official lists ?

While official website should keep all the plugins, themes and resources listed, here we'll try to maintain only the well-maintained, stable, essential or popular ones. So that, a new not-so-techie Pelican beginner can hit the ground running using this list.
 

Table of contents

• Themes
• Plugins
• Services
• Writeups
  • Getting started
  • Optimization
  • Platform-specific
• Videos
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

Themes

Awesome themes for UI interfaces.

• pelican-alchemy - A magical :sparkles: theme powered by Bootstrap 4
• Backdrop - A responsive theme, built on Zurb Foundation
• BlueIdea - A theme inspired by the default theme notmyidea
• Elegant - A responsive theme that gives meaning to the expression “sand the under side of the drawer.”
• Plumage - Based on Bootstrap 3, code-snippets via Pygments
• pelican-svbhack - A responsive theme based on the svbtle-like look

Plugins

Awesome Plugins to complete Pelican's support for widespread functionalities

• BibTeX - Manage your academic publications page with Pelican and BibTeX
• IPynb - for blogging with Jupyter/IPython Notebooks
• YUI Compressor Plugin -
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Services

Services that facilitates Pelican deployments

• A tour to Pelican themes - A visual tour of Pelican themes generated from the official list
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Writeups

Getting Started

Personal writeups to guide you through getting started with Pelican

• The long road to building a static blog with pelican - George S.
• Pelican, a simple static blog generator in python - Alexis Métaireau
• Making a Static Blog with Pelican - Nafiul Islam
• Ditching Wordpress and becoming one of the cool kids - Silviu Tantos

Optimization

Getting to the next-level with Pelican

• How to exclude pages and articles with Pelican - Bernhard Scheirle
• Pelican Static sites - SEO Optimization -
• Better Figures & Images Plugin for Pelican - Duncan Lock
• Exceptional Performance without mod_pagespeed or apache:(Page Speed score:99) - Irfan Ahmad
• Deploying Pelican on Netlify - Netlify official documentation

Platform-specific

Getting through a specific platform for deployments

• Setting up a blog with Pelican and Amazon S3 - Lex Hider
• Blog With Pelican and Nginx - Michael Lustfield
• A Pelican Blog with Search & Comments on Netlify

Videos

Videos regarding Pelican

• Generate static blog with Pelican and Markdown - Michael Crosby
• Building Static Blogs using Pelican (PyCon APAC 2015) - Quazi Nafiul Islam
• Why I Switched From Wordpress to Pelican - Daniel Hauck
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Pelican: A Comparison of Static Site Generators (OSB 2015) - Lucy Wyman
• Comparing Static Site Engines with Brian Rinaldi - Brian Rinaldi

Websites built with Pelican

• Linux Kernel Organization
• Hacker Codex
• The Soldier's Family
• Frogtoss Labs

Pelican-related Websites

• Official Homepage
• Official Twitter
• Jinja Templating
• /r/Python
• Awesome Python @LibHunt
• StackOverflow Q&A

Weekly

• CodeTengu Weekly
• Import Python Newsletter
• Pycoder's Weekly
• Python Weekly

Other Awesome Lists

List of related lists.

• Awesome Python - A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources
• Pelican Themes - Official list of themes for pelican
• Pelican Plugins - Official collection of plugins for the Pelican static site generator

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding :+1: to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach 10.