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:

Setting	Description
SITENAME	Text displayed under avatar in sidebar
BIO_TEXT	Text displayed under site name
FOOTER_TEXT	Text displayed in site footer
ICONS_PATH	Location of site icons (ex. images/icons)
SITE_AUTHOR	Used for author <meta>
TWITTER_USERNAME	Used for Twitter Cards <meta>
GOOGLE_PLUS_URL	Used for Google+ <meta>
INDEX_DESCRIPTION	Used for description <meta> on index page
SIDEBAR_LINKS	List of anchor elements to be displayed under bio text
GOOGLE_FONTS	List of fonts to import from Google Fonts (optional)
SOCIAL_ICONS	List of tuples in the form (link, title, icon-class)
THEME_COLOR	Primary colour of the site (ex. #000000)
DISQUS_SITENAME	Disqus shortname (optional)
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS	Google Analytics tracking code (optional)
DOMAIN	Used for Google Analytics and Twitter Cards <meta>
FA_EMBED_CODE	Font Awesome CDN embed code (optional)

License

Pneumatic is licensed under the MIT License.