Tutorials

If you have published a Pelican-related tutorial on your own site, please create a link to your tutorial on this page.

• The Pelican installation screencast provides a visual guide to installing and configuring Pelican.

• Matt Makai published an excellent introductory tutorial at Full Stack Python.

• You can use Travis-CI to publish to GitHub Pages, allowing you to publish your site simply by pushing your commits to GitHub (without generating locally or using your own VPS).

• As another deployment option, you can deploy your site to Heroku.

• It's possible to create "Linked List" posts that behave differently from standard posts.

• Remotely update Pelican via Dropbox

• Add a custom Jinja filter for use in your templates.

• Migración de Wordpress a Pelican.

• Making a Static Blog with Pelican is a full length post on how to start with pelican, and end up with a full static blogging site, with deployment to github as well.

• A Pelican Blog with Search & Comments, Deployed on Netlify

• Deploying a Pelican Blog with Gitlab-CI

• eval-pelican An oddly named tutorial site that resulted from me typing up my notes as I evaluated the Pelican static site builder. Talks about using Git and Github, virtual Python environments, Markdown, themes, and deployment to Netlify.com. Backed up by a full public Github repository.

• Build A Blog With Pelican And Python Full Pelican v4 tutorial from installation to deployment on Github Pages. Covers custom themes, writing content & keeping it organized, Disqus comments and enabling Google Analytics