blog/themes/blue-penguin-dark/README.md

Blue Penguin Dark for pelican

A simple dark theme for pelican, with light/dark mode support using media queries available. Solarized pygments. Feeds support.

This theme has been adapted from the original Blue Penguin Theme for use on my website, all changes are generic and this theme can be used interchangeably with the original.

Settings

# all the following settings are *optional*

# HTML metadata
SITEDESCRIPTION = ''

# all defaults to True.
DISPLAY_HEADER = True
DISPLAY_FOOTER = True
DISPLAY_HOME   = True
DISPLAY_MENU   = True
DARK_LIGHT_SWITCHING_OFF = True

# provided as examples, they make ‘clean’ urls. used by MENU_INTERNAL_PAGES.
TAGS_URL           = 'tags'
TAGS_SAVE_AS       = 'tags/index.html'
AUTHORS_URL        = 'authors'
AUTHORS_SAVE_AS    = 'authors/index.html'
CATEGORIES_URL     = 'categories'
CATEGORIES_SAVE_AS = 'categories/index.html'
ARCHIVES_URL       = 'archives'
ARCHIVES_SAVE_AS   = 'archives/index.html'

# use those if you want pelican standard pages to appear in your menu
MENU_INTERNAL_PAGES = (
    ('Tags', TAGS_URL, TAGS_SAVE_AS),
    ('Authors', AUTHORS_URL, AUTHORS_SAVE_AS),
    ('Categories', CATEGORIES_URL, CATEGORIES_SAVE_AS),
    ('Archives', ARCHIVES_URL, ARCHIVES_SAVE_AS),
)
# additional menu items
MENUITEMS = (
    ('GitHub', 'https://github.com/'),
    ('Linux Kernel', 'https://www.kernel.org/'),
)

# example pagination pattern
PAGINATION_PATTERNS = (
    (1, '{url}', '{save_as}'),
    (2, '{base_name}/page/{number}/', '{base_name}/page/{number}/index.html'),
)

Dark/Light switching is disabled by default, but can be enabled in the config file by adding:

DARK_LIGHT_SWITCHING_OFF = FALSE

How to contribute

Contributions are very welcome. Keep in mind that this theme goal is to be minimalistic/simple. Contributions will be accepted through Github Pull Requests. If you don’t have a Github account you can suggest me your changes by email.

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTORS.md.

License

Public domain.