Siddhant Shrivastava

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My first experience with Pelican

The bloghiker's guide to the Pelican galaxy

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review personal blog

I am trying to set up Pelican here.

Edit: The setup process was so much easier than Octopress that I could complete manual migration in less than half an hour.

Thanks to the plugins and theme support, everything that a blogger might need is simply battery included.

So here is a list of resources that I found indispensable:

  1. ##Octopress theme

The readablity and functionality offered by this minimalist theme is brilliant.

  1. ##Social Media Integration

The configuration files pelicanconf.py and publishconf.py have ample variables for linking with the popular social media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, G+.

  1. ##Google Analytics

Open Source bloggers can use this to track hits and get visual visits-with-time feedback.

  1. ##Markdown

I like this typesetting format for multiple reasons - touchtyping friendly characters, frugal use of tags, expressiveness, and the LaTeX-like non-WYSIWYG nature.