Lepagito - plugin

Article navigation

The navigation between two successive pagination of article summaries is presented at the bottom: it provides both Oldest/Newest pages and also Fist/Last, for efficiency. When reading articles, the navigation between previous and next articles is presented both at the top and the bottom. This navigation feature is implemented thanks to the pelican neighbors plugin.

By default, the oldest pages and article navigation links appear on the right, and newest on the left. The LEPAGITO_NAVIGATION_SWAP variable in the pelicanconf.py file allows to swap from left to write this navigation. This feature is useful when the chronology of a …

Self-hosted search

The search function appears at the right of the top menu bar. Rather than give up control and privacy to third-party search engine corporations, this function adds elegant and self-hosted search capability to your site. Last but not least, searches are really fast. The search function is implemented thanks to the pelican search plugin. The search engine is activated by the following line in the pelicanconf.py file:

SEARCH_MODE = 'output'

Note that the search function requires that the blog is installed: it do not work in the off-line mode. If you do not need searches on your site, e.g …

Sitemap

The sitemap plugin generates a sitemap.xml file to facilitate the indexing of your site by search engines. There is nothing to configure, it works as a black-box.

Photo galleries

Last but not the least, the galleria plugin allows to easily manage galleries of images. Especially, it nicely manages the automatic generation of thumbnails from images, as shown in the following gallery of watercolors due to Pirogh:

When you click on a thumbnail of a picture, a full resolution version of this picture is displayed. Also, try to resize the browser window and observe the responsive display of the gallery: the gallery is automatically readjusted and this is especially useful when displaying on mobile phones. Finally the thumbnail's image resolution itself is also responsive, in the sense that it takes …