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How to install the Goodreads Activity plugin for Pelican

After working this weekend on my new blog theme and getting very satisfying results, I wanted to polish a bit more and add a favicon (and get rid of the error at startup saying that no favicon was found). I naively assumed that adding in the configuration file: FAVICON = "favicon …

Preamble: the mechanism described here is an alternative of the classic deployment steps described here and here. The Pelican documentation is awesome, if you read it carefully. The Tips section contains information about how to deploy with GitHub Actions. Sounds cool, but what is it exactly? GitHub introduced GitHub Actions …

Here are some things I learned after a few days working with Pelican (read here an explanation about the initial setup). ghp-import The useful ghp-import tool is a non-standard git command mentioned in every article about Pelican setup. A quick look at the --help command reveals interesting options. I now …

I will explain here the steps to build your static website with Pelican and deploy it on GitHub Pages. But first, why use Pelican and not Wordpress or Dotclear, like back when I started my first blog? I was looking for: simplicity: Pelican uses markdown syntax in plain text files …