This website

Saturday, 18 May 2019

I decided to use Pelican for this blog since I didn’t feel like messing around with HTML too much and it seemed like a nice way of letting me just write things in restructured text.

I wrote a simple theme using bootstrap so I could have some control over how things are displayed.

I used a theme from my friend which works really well, has support for putting markup in the margins and even respects light/dark mode of the operating system.

Replacing the default landing page

I wanted the default page for this site to be a static page, and not a listing of articles like Pelican wants to serve. It ends up being pretty easy to achieve this behaviour, but is not intuitive at all. On a file in the content/pages set something up like the following. I used content/pages/index.rst for this website.

My new root page
=================

:untitled:
:override_url:
:save_as: index.html

This is my homepage, it is not just a listing of articles.

Just replacing the save_as metadata with index.html and overriding the url to be nothing is enough to achieve the desired behaviour