Articles tagged with pelican

Disabling Wordpress

Posted on March 28, 2023 in Software

A brief migration announcement explaining why the site moved from WordPress to Pelican.
MySQL OOM'ed, But Pelican Lives

Posted on February 15, 2016 in System Administration

I use Pingdom's free service to monitor slaptijack.com. Apparently, late Friday night, oom-killer decided that the server needed more memory and took out the MySQL server. To make matters worse, I missed the alarm from Pingdom, and slaptijack.com was down for pretty much all of Saturday. The fact …
[Pelican] Don't Let Me Publish Without Committing

Posted on November 02, 2015 in Programming

Although I use Git all day long, I actually prefer to use Mercurial for my personal stuff. When I started working on this project to maintain slaptijack.com with Pelican rather than continuing to use Wordpress, one of the things that really interested me was the ability to keep Markdown …
Pelican: Insert Article Summaries into WordPress

Posted on October 26, 2015 in Programming
This is was my next project.

Update: For now I've solved this problem by using FeedWordPress to pull the Atom feed for the Pelican-specific portion of the website.
- Use this as a starting point for the XML-RPC bit.
- It should first try to pull the article before committing a new …
Using Pelican's article.summary

Posted on October 23, 2015 in Programming

I'm using Jinja2 templates with my new Pelican-based articles. If you have Django experience, you'll feel right at home using Jinja2 templates. I decided early on that I wanted to create my own theme from scratch and keep it as basic as possible. (In fact, 'basic' is the name …
Getting Started With Pelican

Posted on October 20, 2015 in Software
I've been using WordPress on this site since 2007. After all this time, I've decided I want to try something new. So, I've decided to go in a completely different direction and start serving static content. There are three things driving my decision to change:
- The existing site is really …