Pelican Alchemy

Overview

Pelican Alchemy is a functional, clean, and responsive theme for the Pelican static site generator. It is inspired by crowsfoot and clean-blog themes and is powered by Bootstrap 4. This theme offers several features including support for Boostwatch themes, Font Awesome icons, Pygments syntax highlighting styles, Pelican sitemap.xml, Favicon Generator support, and external analytics and comments support.

Features

• Powered by Bootstrap 4: Utilizes the Bootstrap 4 framework for enhanced responsiveness and design.
• Supports any Boostwatch themes: Allows integration with any Boostwatch themes for further customization.
• Font Awesome icons: Provides a library of Font Awesome icons to be used in the theme.
• Pygments syntax highlighting styles: Offers various syntax highlighting styles using the Pygments library.
• Pelican sitemap.xml support: Supports the generation of a sitemap.xml file for improved SEO.
• Favicon Generator support: Integrates with a Favicon Generator package for generating favicon images.
• External analytics support: Allows integration with external analytics services like Google, Gauges, and Piwik.
• External comments support: Provides support for external comments using Disqus.
• Features link to external assets: Offers the ability to easily link to external assets such as webfonts.

From Git repo

1. Clone the repository:

git clone <repository-url>

2. Set the THEME variable in your Pelican config:

THEME = 'path/to/alchemy'

As a Submodule

In your Pelican site:

1. Add the theme as a submodule:

git submodule add <repository-url> themes/alchemy

2. And in the Pelican config:

THEME = 'themes/alchemy'

With pip

Alternatively, you can install this theme with pip:

1. Install the theme using pip:

pip install pelican-alchemy

2. Import it in your Pelican config:

THEME = 'pelican_alchemy'

Summary

Overall, Pelican Alchemy is a powerful and versatile theme for the Pelican static site generator. It offers an array of features including Bootstrap 4 integration, support for Boostwatch themes, Font Awesome icons, and external analytics and comments. With its clean and functional design, Pelican Alchemy is suitable for a wide range of websites and can be easily customized to fit specific needs.