Static Websites With Pelican

A romantic comedy

Matt Makai / @mattmakai

CFPB in Washington, D.C.

Tim O'Reilly @ CFPB

Blog post

O'Reilly Tweet

Hacker News Frontpage

Free "Infinite" Scaling

Pelican

Static Site Generation

Developing with Pelican

• Write in ReStructuredText
• Create & modify Jinja2 templates
• Code Pelican extensions in Python
• Import from Wordpress or RSS feeds
• Add third party services for comments and analytics

Let's do some live coding

Static Site Disadvantages

• Eventually you may want a database
• Initial learning curve
• Publishing is technical compared to using a content management system
• Lack of realistic Pelican project examples

Coding Across America

Public GitHub Repository

Recap

• Host on free scalable static services
• Write in ReStructuredText and modify Jinja2 templates
• Generate output with Pelican
• Add third party services for dynamic content

Learn Pelican Blog Post

Resources

• Pelican Docs
• Introduction to Pelican Blog Post
• Pelican Getting Started Guide
• Full Stack Python source code
• Coding Across America source code
• Matt Makai dot com source code
• An Introduction to Static Site Generators
• The Problem With Static Site Generators
• Hacker Codex: Installing Pelican Video
• This presentation's source code

2013 Speaking Events

First and Last

Thank you Twilio!

Contact Information

• Matt Makai
• @mattmakai
• matthew.makai@gmail.com
• makaimc on GitHub
• www.mattmakai.com
• www.codingacrossamerica.com

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