The previous article walked through how to build a semi-practical teaser (thumbnail) image plugin. With the basics down, this article will demonstrate how to improve that plugin, making it more customizable and generalized. Read more...
The previous article discussed key concepts related to the development of Pelican plugins, installation of plugins, and gave a minimal example of a plugin.
In this article, a more practical example of a plugin — one actually used on this site — is demonstrated. Read more...
Pelican is a static site generator written in Python, which was used to create this site. Extending Pelican with plugins can be a powerful tool, but unfortunately when going to create my own first plugin, I found documentation to be somewhat lacking. So, I'd like to provide a few tutorials demonstrating how I built plugins for this site, starting with a very simple one.
This article assumes basic familiarity with Python, and working with Pelican to create a basic blog site, but does not assume knowledge of Pelican internals. Read more...