Gabian
Gabian is a theme for the Pelican static site generator. It is a fork of Peli-Kiera. Thanks to the Hugo-Kiera project for the inspiration.
Demo
Live-Demo at FIXME
Installation
Pelican-Docs will guide you through the initial installation.
Once inside the project directory, Gabian theme can be installed by cloning the repo into your
themes path and pointing to it in your pelicanconf.py
.
# Create a themes directory if it doesn't exists
cd project-dir
pelican-quickstart
mkdir themes
cd themes
git clone FIXME
# Add path to your theme directory in pelicanconf.py
THEME = 'themes/gabian'
In order to get read times and links between articles, the theme requires pelican-readtime and neighbors plugins.
cd project-dir/
# Please note the plugins repo is quite large and you only need the two.
git clone https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins
# Add path to your plugins directory in pelicanconf.py
PLUGIN_PATHS = ['pelican-plugins']
PLUGINS = ['readtime', 'neighbors']
A sample article header.
Title: Simple is better than complex
Date: 2018-11-14
Tags: python, jupyter, library
Description: The Zen of Python
Category: Python
### Introduction
This is a standard paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Go ahead and create few articles in respective directories.
# Generate articles and populate output
pelican content -o output -s pelicanconf.py
# start the local server on http://localhost:8000/
pelican --autoreload --listen
Final project directory structure should look similiar to this.
(Pelican) ➜ project-dir tree
│
├── Makefile
├── content/
│ ├── Python/
│ │ ├── article-one.md
│ │ ├── article-two.md
│ │ └── article-three.md
│ ├── Research/
│ │ ├── article-one.md
│ │ ├── article-two.md
│ │ └── article-three.md
│ ├── images/
│ │ ├── camera-2008479_640.png
│ │ ├── camera-wide.png
│ │ └── wide-wide.png
│ └── pages/
│ └── about.md
├── output/
│
├── pelicanconf.py
├── pelican-plugins/
│ ├── neighbors
│ │ ├── Readme.rst
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── neighbors.py
│ └── readtime
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── readtime.py
├── publishconf.py
├── tasks.py
└── themes
└── gabian/
Settings
Example pelicanconf.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #
from __future__ import unicode_literals
AUTHOR = 'Author'
COPYRIGHT = '2023'
SITENAME = 'Site-Name'
SITEURL = 'https://www.example.com'
SITESUBTITLE = 'Site Subtitle'
PATH = 'content'
TIMEZONE = 'America/New_York'
DEFAULT_LANG = 'en'
THEME = 'themes/gabian'
PLUGIN_PATHS = ['pelican-plugins']
PLUGINS = ['readtime', 'neighbors']
STATIC_PATHS = ['images']
# Article summary length on main index page
SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH = 100
DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/'
# Feed generation is usually not desired when developing
FEED_ALL_ATOM = 'feeds/all.atom.xml'
CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = None
TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM = None
AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None
AUTHOR_FEED_RSS = None
RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = True
# Social widget
SOCIAL = (
('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/'),
('linkedin', 'https://www.linkedin.com'),
('github', 'https://github.com/'),
('gitlab', 'https://gitlab.com/'),
('facebook', 'https://facebook.com'),
('instagram', 'https://instagram.com'),
)
# DISQUS_SITENAME = ''
# GOOGLE_ANALYTICS = ''
# Uncomment following line if you want document-relative URLs when developing
# RELATIVE_URLS = True
Features
- Atom/RSS feeds
- Mobile friendly
- Google analytics
- Comments via Disqus
- Font awesome icons
- Modified pagination
- Image placements
Pagination and image placement
The pagination is presented with the current page and 3 neighboring pages on either side.
<< < 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 > >>
Images can be moved on page by adding the tag #float-right
, #float-left
, #mid
and #full
in your markdown.

Similarly, the placement can also be applied to html directly by wrapping images in a <figure class="placement">
tag.
<figure class="float-left">
<img src="path-to/images/my_image-600x400.png" alt="camera icon">
</figure>
Minimum image width of 600px is recommended. Images scale accordingly on smaller screens.