pelican-mg/README.md
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mg
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A minimal theme for [Pelican](http://blog.getpelican.com/) that uses uikit.
The theme is suited for a single author blog without tag pages nor
blogroll. Feeds are provided via ATOM.
Screenshots
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Here is how the home page look like
![mg home page screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucachr/pelican-mg/master/home-page-screenshot.png)
This is the article page
![mg article page screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucachr/pelican-mg/master/article-screenshot.png)
The home page on a smartphone
![mg home page smartphone top screenshot](https://github.com/lucachr/pelican-mg/blob/master/home-page-smartphone-top.png)
![mg home page smartphone bottom screenshot](https://github.com/lucachr/pelican-mg/blob/master/home-page-smartphone-bottom.png)
This is the article layout on a smartphone screen
![mg article page smartphone top screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucachr/pelican-mg/master/article-page-smartphone-top.png)
Live Example
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Check out [my blog](http://www.devsbytes.com).
Features
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* [Open Graph](http://ogp.me) support.
* [Twitter Summary Card](https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary) support.
* [Schema.org](http://schema.org) support.
* Search with [Tipue Search](http://www.tipue.com/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
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The following settings are required for a correct behaviour of this theme.
```python
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**
A list of tutples (icon, URL). The icons are from [Font Awesome]
(http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/). The suffix "-square" is removed
in the footer icons of the small screen layout.
e.g.
```python
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'),)
```
Example Configuration
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This is the settings file for Dev's Bytes.
```python
#!/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
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mg is released under [the MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).