Blogging with Pelican on Windows

I decided to create a blog using a static site generator and so on. This time I used Pelican made by Python.

environment

• Windows10
• Python 3.4
• virtualenv
• pip

Pelican installation

First, use the virtualenv command to create a virtual environment with the name pelican. C:\> virtualenv pelican

Move to pelican C:\> cd pelican

Move to virtual environment C:\pelican> Scripts\activate

Install Pelican (pelican)C:\pelican> pip install pelican

I want to write an article in Markdown format, so (pelican)C:\pelican> pip install Markdown

Now you are ready to create a blog.

Blog creation

Create and move myblog project folder (pelican)C:\pelican> mkdir myblog (pelican)C:\pelican> cd myblog

Creating a blog template. (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog> pelican-quickstart

At this time, I will answer various questions such as blog title and author name.

Write an article

Write articles in Markdown format.

first-post.md

Title:Blog on Pelican
Date: 2016-05-20 22:40
Category: Pelican
Tags: pelican, python
Slug: first-post
Author: Daiki
Summary:Blogging with Pelican

Create a blog with Pelican.

Save this under \ myblog \ content .

Article posting

Originally, you can easily generate a static page with the make html command, but since it is not possible on Windows, use a batch file. (https://gist.github.com/traeblain/4252511) Put pmake.cmd here under myblog

pmake.cmd

set _PELICAN=$pelican
set _PELICANOPTS=$pelicanopts
.
.
cd %_OUTPUTDIR% && python -m SimpleHTTPServer
.
.

To

pmake.cmd

set _PELICAN=pelican
set _PELICANOPTS=
.
.
cd %_OUTPUTDIR% && python -m http.server
.
.

Edit the pelican path and the server start command for python3.4 (as is for 2.x),

Now you can compile with the pmake command instead of make. (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog> pmake html

If there are no particular errors, HTML conversion was successful.

Start localhost server (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog> pmake serve

Now you can check the created article by accessing http: // localhost: 8000 with a browser.

Published on Github

Generate HTML file for publication (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog> pmake publish

Settings such as the public URL can be changed in pelicanconf.py.

Move to output directory (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog> cd output

Publish page on Github (public URL: username.github.io) (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog\output> git init (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog\output> git add --all (pelican)C:\pelican\myblog\output> git commit -m "first post" (pelican) C: \ pelican \ myblog \ output> git push https://github.com/username/username.github.io.git master: master

• Addition: If you create a git repository under output, an error will occur with pmake html, so create it under myblog, and when pushing, use ghp-import to specify output and it seems that it can coexist well.

• Addendum: Another change to DELETE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = False in publishconf.py worked.

Reference: (http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.6.3/tips.html)

Reference site ―― I want to quit Wordpress and move to Pelican, but I don't have the energy to overcome obstacles. -I decided to start a technical blog with the static page generator Pelican -Write a blog with the static site generator Pelican -How to create a blog managed by Pelican + Markdown + GitHub Pages -Create a blog on github --Pelican -Pelican installation / operation check memo

• Pelican Documentation