newbird pelican theme

newbird is a theme for Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme relies heavily on new.css.

Features

• Lightweight, using minimal CSS and Javascript, resulting in snappy page loads
• Google Analytics support via the GOOGLE_ANALYTICS variable
• Twitter Cards metadata for when articles are shared on Twitter
• Facebook Open Graph metadata for when articles are shared on Facebook
• Jupyter Notebooks are supported via the liquid tags plugin
• MathJax for adding mathematical notation into posts

Notably Excluded Features

• This theme purposefully doesn't include social sharing buttons in order to keep it lightweight

Getting Started

For a working example of this theme, see pelicanconf.py.

Documentation

• GOOGLE_ANALYTICS to use Google Analytics, set this to your GA property id
• TWITTER_CARDS should be a boolean indicating whether or not you'd like Twitter Cards to be used when your links are shared on Twitter
• TWITTER_NAME should be your Twitter username. It is used to set the author metadata field for Twitter Cards.
• LOGO_IMAGE should be the path to your site's logo, which will be displayed in metadata when links are shared on social networks
• FAVICON_IMAGE should be the path to your site's favicon
• INDEX_PAGE_HEADER is the message you'd like displayed on your index page, above the site DESCRIPTION.
• NAV_LINKS is used for displaying the site's navigation bar. This variable should contain a list of dictionaries with each dictionary containing a name and url key: NAV_LINKS = [{'name': 'Blog', 'url': '/blog/', ...}].
• COPYRIGHT_START_YEAR for displaying the site's copyright message in the footer

Screenshots

Index page

Article page