https://github.com/kura/ghastly

A clean and minimal, lightweight theme for the Pelican static site generator.
https://github.com/kura/ghastly

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A clean and minimal, lightweight theme for the Pelican static site generator.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kura/ghastly
• Owner: kura
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-05-26T12:51:16.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-26T12:41:04.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T01:28:32.303Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: css, html5, jinja2, pelican
• Language: CSS
• Homepage: https://kura.gg/ghastly/
• Size: 2.46 MB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
Ghastly - A theme for Pelican

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:date: 2014-05-26 23:00

:author: kura

:tags: pelican, ghost

:slug: ghastly

.. contents::

.. figure:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/gastly.png

    :alt: Gastly, the Ghost Pokemon

    (Image by `Raiba-art `__)

Introduction

============

I'd like to introduce Ghastly, a clean and minimal, lightweight theme for the

`Pelican `__ blogging platform.

Ghastly is based heavily off of Casper, the default theme for

`Ghost `__.

It's name is derived from the the D&D monster, the Ghast and Gastly, the

Pokemon.

Features

========

- Disqus

- Pygments

- CSS & JS minifying using webassets

- Share buttons

- Custom 404 page

Missing Features

----------------

- Templates are free from all tracking engines like Google Analytics,

  although adding tracking is as simple as editing the HTML.

Design concessions

==================

The Casper theme is designed purely for blog posts and as such it is hard

to easily create any kind of menu for it without ruining the overall design.

I continued this with Ghastly because to me, the articles are more important

than a menu.

This does mean pages become quite pointless.

Typography

==========

.. figure:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/firasans.png

    :alt: FiraSans map of the World

    (Image by `the guys at Carrois, creators of FiraSans `__)

The guys at `Carrois `__ created FiraSans for

Mozilla and released it to the world for free.

The Ghastly theme uses both FiraSans for general typography and FiraMono for

`code`, `kbd`, `pre` and `samp` blocks.

Screenshots

===========

.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/homepage.png

.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/article1.png

.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/article2.png

.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kura/ghastly/master/article3.png

Requirements

============

- pelican

- webassets

- cssmin

- pelican webassets from `pelican-plugins `__

.. code:: bash

    pip install pelican webassets cssmin

Installation

============

You can find Ghastly `on GitHub `__ and you

can find installation instructions for themes in the `pelican documentation

`__.

Configuration

=============

.. code:: python

    THEME = 'ghastly'

    DIRECT_TEMPLATES = (('index', 'archives', '404'))

License

=======

Ghastly is released under the `MIT license `__.