Pelican Plugins

Latest News I received some good news this week: my Show Source plugin, the one inspired by Sphinx, has had its pull request accepted into the getpelican/pelican-plugins repo. This means that the plugin becomes a part of the standard Pelican plugin canon. My next task will be to make a small addition, and hence pull request, to the developers of the theme I use with this site (pelican-bootstrap3) to accomodate a couple of small template changes to support Show Source automatically. The officially accepted version of show source is available now right here. Enjoy!

Rationale I have always been a fan of the Sphinx Python documentation generator and it has, I think, a nice feature where you can check out the raw source of a generated piece of documentation - a Show Source link. I decided that developing a Pelican plugin to imitate that feature would be a great way of getting a little deeper into the Pelican code itself. This second post of the series explains the use of the Show Source plugin that I developed from the learning in the previous post. The following article has been, in some part, reproduced in the ReadMe.rst file included as part of the plugin. ...

Rationale I have always been a fan of the Sphinx Python documentation generator and it has, I think, a nice feature where you can check out the raw source of a generated piece of documentation - a Show Source link. I decided that developing a Pelican plugin to imitate that feature would be a great way of getting a little deeper into the Pelican code itself. This first post explores the Pelican plugin architecture and the basics of building a plugin. ...