pelican-themes#
Description#
pelican-themes
is a command line tool for managing themes for Pelican. See
Themes for settings related to themes.
Usage#
Optional arguments:#
- -h, --help
Show the help and exit
- -l, --list
Show the themes already installed
- -i theme_path, --install theme_path
One or more themes to install
- -r theme_name, --remove theme_name
One or more themes to remove
- -s theme_path, --symlink theme_path
Same as
--install
, but create a symbolic link instead of copying the theme. Useful for theme development- -v, --verbose
Verbose output
- --version
Print the version of this script
Examples#
Listing the installed themes#
With pelican-themes
, you can see the available themes by using the -l
or --list
option:
$ pelican-themes -l
notmyidea
two-column@
simple
$ pelican-themes --list
notmyidea
two-column@
simple
In this example, we can see there are three themes available: notmyidea
,
simple
, and two-column
.
two-column
is followed by an @
because this theme is not copied to
the Pelican theme path, but is instead just linked to it (see Creating
symbolic links for details about creating symbolic links).
Note that you can combine the --list
option with the -v
or
--verbose
option to get more verbose output, like this:
$ pelican-themes -v -l
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pelican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/pelican/themes/notmyidea
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pelican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/pelican/themes/two-column (symbolic link to `/home/skami/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/two-column')
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pelican-2.6.0-py2.6.egg/pelican/themes/simple
Installing themes#
You can install one or more themes using the -i
or --install
option.
This option takes as argument the path(s) of the theme(s) you want to install,
and can be combined with the --verbose
option:
# pelican-themes --install ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/notmyidea-cms --verbose
# pelican-themes --install ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/notmyidea-cms\
~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/martyalchin \
--verbose
# pelican-themes -vi ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/two-column
Removing themes#
The pelican-themes
command can also remove themes from the Pelican themes
path. The -r
or --remove
option takes as argument the name(s) of the
theme(s) you want to remove, and can be combined with the --verbose
option.
# pelican-themes --remove two-column
# pelican-themes -r martyachin notmyidea-cmd -v
Creating symbolic links#
pelican-themes
can also install themes by creating symbolic links instead
of copying entire themes into the Pelican themes path.
To symbolically link a theme, you can use the -s
or --symlink
, which
works exactly as the --install
option:
# pelican-themes --symlink ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/two-column
In this example, the two-column
theme is now symbolically linked to the
Pelican themes path, so we can use it, but we can also modify it without having
to reinstall it after each modification.
This is useful for theme development:
$ sudo pelican-themes -s ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/two-column
$ pelican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ firefox /tmp/out/index.html
$ vim ~/Dev/Pelican/pelican-themes/two-column/static/css/main.css
$ pelican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ cp /tmp/bg.png ~/Dev/Pelican/pelican-themes/two-column/static/img/bg.png
$ pelican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
$ vim ~/Dev/Pelican/pelican-themes/two-column/templates/index.html
$ pelican ~/Blog/content -o /tmp/out -t two-column
Doing several things at once#
The --install
, --remove
and --symlink
options are not mutually
exclusive, so you can combine them in the same command line to do more than one
operation at time, like this:
# pelican-themes --remove notmyidea-cms two-column \
--install ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/notmyidea-cms-fr \
--symlink ~/Dev/Python/pelican-themes/two-column \
--verbose
In this example, the theme notmyidea-cms
is replaced by the theme
notmyidea-cms-fr