mg

A minimal theme for Pelican that uses uikit. The theme is suited for a single author blog without tag pages nor blogroll. Feeds are provided via ATOM.

Screenshots

Features

• Open Graph support.
• Twitter Summary Card support.
• Schema.org support.
• Search with Tipue Search.
• Responsive design.
• Comment with DISQUS.
• SCSS style sheets.
• Analytics with Google Analytics, PIWIK and StatCounter.
• Share buttons built with share urls.
• Custom footer notice.

Settings

The following settings are required for a correct behaviour of this theme.

    TAG_SAVE_AS = ''
    AUTHOR_SAVE_AS = ''
    DIRECT_TEMPLATES = ('index', 'categories', 'archives', 'search', 'tipue_search')
    TIPUE_SEARCH_SAVE_AS = 'tipue_search.json'

###Optional settings

ALT_NAME
An alternative name for your site. It appears in the header bar.

DESCRIPTION
A brief description of your site, for social networks and search engines.

FAVICON
The relative path of your favicon, this is needed for Disqus forum favicon.

FAVICON_TYPE
The MIME type of your favicon, this is needed for Disqus forum favicon.

FOOTER
A custom footer notice.

META_IMAGE
The absolute URL of a custom image for the og:image meta property, Twitter summary card, and image meta property of Schema.org. This image is used in every page of the blog. Articles and pages can override the default META_IMAGE by setting the "image" metadata in the relative file.

META_IMAGE_TYPE
The MIME type for META_IMAGE, this is needed for og:image:type.

SC_PROJECT
The StatCounter project number.

SC_SECURITY
The StatCounter security code for the project.

SHARE
Enable share buttons, boolean.

SOCIAL
(http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/). The suffix "-square" is removed in the footer icons of the small screen layout.
e.g.

    SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/luca_chr'),
              ('google-plus-square', 'https://plus.google.com/117284397605208270870'),
              ('github', 'https://github.com/lucachr'),
              ('envelope', 'mailto:luca92web@gmail.com'),)

DISPLAY_SEARCH Set False to hide search fields

Example Configuration

This is the settings file for Dev's Bytes.

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #
    from __future__ import unicode_literals

    AUTHOR = 'Luca Chiricozzi'
    SITENAME = "Dev's Bytes"
    ALT_NAME = "#! " + SITENAME
    SITESUBTITLE = "Random programming stuff"
    DESCRIPTION = "A blog about programming, *nix, and software development."
    SITEURL = 'http://www.devsbytes.com'
    FAVICON = 'favicon.ico'
    FAVICON_TYPE = 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon'

    META_IMAGE = SITEURL + "/static/img/og_logo.jpg"
    META_IMAGE_TYPE = "image/jpeg"

    PATH = 'content'

    TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Rome'

    DEFAULT_LANG = 'en'
    LOCALE = 'en_GB'

    THEME = "themes/mg"

    # Social widget
    SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/luca_chr'),
              ('google-plus-square', 'https://plus.google.com/+LucaChiricozzi'),
              ('github', 'https://github.com/lucachr'),
              ('envelope', 'mailto:luca92web@gmail.com'),)

    SHARE = True

    FOOTER = ("&copy; 2015 Luca Chiricozzi. All rights reserved.<br>" +
              "Code snippets in the pages are released under " +
              "<a href=\"http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT\" target=\"_blank\">" +
              "The MIT License</a>, unless otherwise specified.")


    DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10

    TAG_SAVE_AS = ''
    AUTHOR_SAVE_AS = ''
    DIRECT_TEMPLATES = ('index', 'categories', 'archives', 'search', 'tipue_search')
    TIPUE_SEARCH_SAVE_AS = 'tipue_search.json'

    RELATIVE_URLS = False

    FEED_ALL_ATOM = 'feeds/all.atom.xml'

    DELETE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = True

    TWITTER_USERNAME = 'luca_chr'
    DISQUS_SITENAME = "devsbytes"
    SC_PROJECT = '10224955'
    SC_SECURITY = '1f2cc438'

License

mg is released under the MIT License.