Encrypt Pelican Content

This plugin allows you to have password protected articles and pages in Pelican. The content is encrypted with AES-256 in Python using PyCryptodome, and decrypted in the browser with Crypto-JS.

Installation

Refer to How to use plugins in the Pelican docs.

Quick summary

Pelican 4.5 switched to namespace packages for plugins. Run python setup.py install and Pelican will auto-detect the plugin.

Verify installation by running pelican-plugins. You should see something like:

-> Plugins found:
  | pelican.plugins.encrypt_content

Alternative method

Copy the pelican/plugins folder from this repository into the top level of your pelican project, then add the following to pelicanconf.py:

PLUGIN_PATHS = ['plugins']
PLUGINS = ['encrypt_content']

Settings

You can set a summary, as well as a title prefix to use for all encrypted articles. The default for both is a blank string.

In pelicanconf.py file:

ENCRYPT_CONTENT = {
    'title_prefix': '[Encrypted]',
    'summary': 'This content is encrypted.'
}

Usage

Inside your source file, just add the password of your choosing:

ex.

reStructuredText

That one time I robbed a bank 
###############################

:date: 1983-04-22
:tags: crime, banks, imabadass
:password: correcthorsebatterystaple

Markdown

Title: That one time I robbed a bank
Date: 1983-04-22
Tags: crime, banks, imabadass
Password: correcthorsebatterystaple