Pneumatic

Pneumatic is a minimalistic, responsive Pelican theme. The name was chosen because it's based on the Skeleton framework, and pelicans (like most birds) possess skeletal pneumaticity. See the theme in action at kevinyap.ca.

Here's a summary of Pneumatic's selling points:

• 100% JavaScript-free by default (minus legacy IE compatibility scripts).
• No authors, categories, or tags — full minimalism!
• Configurable sidebar icons via Font Awesome.
• Responsive layout (sidebar turns into a header on small devices).
• Modern system font stack based on San Francisco and Segoe UI.
• Optional Google Analytics and Disqus integration.

Note: To use the older version of the theme whose font stack was based on Google Fonts, refer to [email protected].

Setup

• Install Sass and two Pelican plugins: Neighbours and Assets. These are required dependencies.

• Create a directory containing all of the relevant icons. Set ICONS_PATH to that directory's path (ex. images/icons) and ensure that it has been added to STATIC_PATHS.

• There are intentionally no author, category, and tag page templates, so AUTHORS_SAVE_AS, CATEGORY_SAVE_AS, CATEGORIES_SAVE_AS, and TAGS_SAVE_AS should all be set to ''.

• pygments.css can be modified to change the code block colour scheme.

• Some font and colour choices can be customized in pneumatic.scss.

• CodeHilite line numbers should be enabled in Pelican's configuration file:

  # Pelican 3.7+
  MARKDOWN = {
      'extension_configs': {
          'markdown.extensions.codehilite': {'linenums': None}
      }
  }
  
  # Pelican 3.6 and older
  MD_EXTENSIONS = ['codehilite(linenums=None)']

Here are theme-specific settings that should be present in the Pelican configuration file:

License

Pneumatic is licensed under the MIT License.