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Pelican Travis CI: continuous integration status Coveralls: code coverage status PyPI: the Python Package Index PyPI: the Python Package Index

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python.

  • Write content in reStructuredText or Markdown using your editor of choice
  • Includes a simple command line tool to (re)generate site files
  • Easy to interface with version control systems and web hooks
  • Completely static output is simple to host anywhere

Features

Pelican currently supports:

  • Chronological content (e.g., articles, blog posts) as well as static pages
  • Integration with external services (e.g., Google Analytics and Disqus)
  • Site themes (created using Jinja2 templates)
  • Publication of articles in multiple languages
  • Generation of Atom and RSS feeds
  • Syntax highlighting via Pygments
  • Importing existing content from WordPress, Dotclear, and other services
  • Fast rebuild times due to content caching and selective output writing

Check out Pelican's documentation for further information.

How to get help, contribute, or provide feedback

See our contribution submission and feedback guidelines.

Source code

Pelican's source code is hosted on GitHub. If you feel like hacking, take a look at Pelican's internals.

Why the name "Pelican"?

"Pelican" is an anagram of calepin, which means "notebook" in French.