This document discusses Pelican, an open source static site generator that uses Markdown files and Jinja templates to build static websites without a database. Pelican is Pythonic, easy to use, and has a large community and many themes and plugins available. The document provides instructions on installing Pelican using pip and generating a basic static site by creating Markdown content files and running Pelican commands to build the HTML output.

1. Python Static Site Generator
Text + Template = Static Site
Github:: @igauravsehrawat
Twitter:: @root3d

2. What exactly is this ?
● Similar to wordpress without db
● Uses markdown
● Analogous to jekyll

3. Why ?
● If one doesn't need
a run a server with
db.
● No apache/ngnix
● Simplicity
● Pythonic way
● Host free on Github

4. How ?
● Pelican
● Hyde
● Nikola
...

5. Pelican
● Renowned
community
● Good support
● Documentation
● Mailing list
● IRC Channel:
#pelican
● Lots of Customized
themes
● Lots of plugins

6. Getting Started
● Pip install pelican
markdown
● mkdir <dir_name>
● Cd <dir_name>
● Pelican-quickstart
●
● Cd content
● Touch <file-name.md>
● Write some markdown
● Pelican content
●

7. Structure
● .
● ├── Makefile
● ├── content
● ├── develop_server.sh
● ├── fabfile.py
● ├── output
● ├── pelicanconf.py
● └── publishconf.py

9. Customization
● Pelicanconf.py
● Publishconf.py
●
● AUTHOR
● THEMES
● PLUGINS
● SITENAME
● SITEURL
....

11. ● Python -m
SimpleHTTPServer
● Make devserver

17. ● DELETE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
= False in publishconf.py
Publish to github
● Easy Way:
Git checkout -b gh-
pages
● Git add .
● Git commit -m
“message”
● Git push origin gh-
pages

19. Who uses pelican ?
● Linux-kernel
● Debian
● Chennaipy.org

20. Thank you