This repository contains themes for Pelican. Feel free to clone, add your own theme, and submit a pull request. It's community-managed!
A live version can be seen at http://www.pelicanthemes.com.
These instructions assume you have already read all the Pelican documentation, have a working site, and would now like to apply a non-default theme.
First, choose a location to hold your themes. For this example, we'll use the
directory ~/pelican-themes, but yours could be different. Clone the
pelican-themes repository to that location on your local machine:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-themes ~/pelican-themesNow you should have your pelican-themes repository stored at
~/pelican-themes/.
To use one of the themes, edit your Pelican settings file to include this line:
THEME = "/home/user/pelican-themes/theme-name"So, for instance, to use the mnmlist theme, you would edit your settings
file to include:
THEME = "/home/user/pelican-themes/mnmlist"Save the changes to your settings file and then regenerate your site by using
the Makefile you should already have set up using pelican-quickstart:
make htmlThemes can also be specified directly via the -t ~/pelican-themes/theme-name
parameter to the pelican command. If you want to edit your theme, make sure
that any edits you make are made to the copy stored in
~/pelican-themes/theme-name. Any changes made to
files stored in your site's output directory will be deleted the next
time you generate your site.
Generating theme previews happens automatically via a GitHub Actions workflow, after which those previews are published to https://pelicanthemes.com. If you want to generate previews locally on your workstation, clone the Pelican repository (for example, to ~/projects/pelican/), clone this repository somewhere, change to the root directory of that clone, and follow these steps:
python -m pip install pelican[markdown] shot-scraper
mkdir _pelican
cp -r ~/projects/pelican/samples _pelican/
python build-theme-previews.py
