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The Linux Kernel Archives

• Site: https://www.kernel.org/pelican.html
• Source: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/kernel/website.git

notmyidea.org

• Site: http://blog.notmyidea.org/
• Source: https://github.com/ametaireau/notmyidea
• Theme: a modified version of notmyidea
• Features:
  • Original inspiration for creating Pelican 😄
  • Custom Makefile

CloudBytes.dev

• Site: https://cloudbytes.dev
• Source: https://github.com/CloudBytesDotDev/CloudBytes.dev
• Theme: Fully custom dual-tone theme with Dark & Solar modes, inspired by Fireship.io
• Search: Powered by Algolia Search
• PWA: Progressive Web App using Google WorkBox
• Features:
  • Automated Continuous Deployment (CD) to Firebase Hosting using GitHub Actions
  • PWA with ability to install natively as an app
  • Table of contents for Articles using Python-Markdown official extension
  • Search powered by Algolia Search
  • HTTPS/2 and SSL with Let's Encrypt as CA
  • Responsive design with responsive navbar and content views
  • Clean URL and custom hooks for validating sitemap
  • GitHub integration to enable contributors to post guest articles
  • 100 Pagespeed Insights Score, optimised for speed

kylefuller.co.uk

• Site: http://kylefuller.co.uk/
• Source: https://github.com/kylef/kylefuller.co.uk
• Features:
  • Deployment automation via Fabric

Hacker Codex

• Site: http://hackercodex.com/
• Source: (forthcoming)
• Theme: customized version of [notmyidea][]
• Features:
  • Clean, cruft-free URLs
  • Feeds on separate sub-domain
  • Disqus comments

Buddycloud.com

• Site: http://buddycloud.com/
• Source: https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud.com
• Theme: Chunk
• Features:
  • Custom Markdown extensions
  • Custom Jinja extension that adds a ToC for enabled pages
  • Custom Pelican extension for adding a Slate API page
  • Olark chats

bottlepy-dev

• Site: http://blog.bottlepy.org/
• Source: https://github.com/defnull/blog.bottlepy.org
• Theme: bottle-theme (based on [notmyidea][])

longwayaround.org.uk

• Site: http://longwayaround.org.uk/
• Source: https://github.com/walkermatt/longwayaround.org.uk
• Theme: https://github.com/walkermatt/longwayaround.org.uk_theme

dirkjan.ochtman.nl

• Site: http://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/
• Theme: custom, inspired by Octopress

i.com.pk

• Site: http://www.i.com.pk
• Theme: Custom Designed
• Features:
  • HTML5
  • Responsive design
  • Typogrify
  • pygment
  • Imported from posterous
  • Hosted on Heroku using Static, gunicorn and gevent

DecayFilm.com

• Site: http://www.decayfilm.com/
• Theme: (Heavily modified notmyidea) https://github.com/brookst/decay

nwcpp.org

• Site: http://nwcpp.org/
• Source: https://github.com/nwcpp/pelican-site
• Theme: a lightly modified version of [notmyidea]
• Conversion described at http://nwcpp.org/2013-website-refresh.html

mozillazg.com

• Site: http://mozillazg.com
• Source: https://github.com/mozillazg/mozillazg.com
• Theme: relapse

arduino.ada-language.com

• Site: http://arduino.ada-language.com/
• Source: https://bitbucket.org/tkoskine/arduino-blog/
• Theme: Custom, based on skeleton
• Features:
  • Disqus comments

databrewery.org

• Site: http://databrewery.org
• Site: http://blog.databrewery.org
• Source: https://github.com/Stiivi/databrewery.org
• Theme: custom theme
• Features:
  • Two projects, one blog and main page (single page, just reusing shared theme settings)
  • Simple plugin for generating content of boxes on pages
  • Custom Makefile

arunrocks.com

• Site: http://arunrocks.com/
• Source: Not released. Ideas and inspiration http://arunrocks.com/moving-blogs-to-pelican/
• Theme: custom built from scratch
• Features:
  • Mobile-first Responsive design
  • Markdown extension for pullquote

avar.is

• Site: http://avar.is/
• Source: not released
• Theme: custom built from scratch
• Features:
  • HTML5/CSS3 responsive design
  • Deployment automation with gitolite hooks
  • pygments
  • plugins: assets, typogrify, neighbors and a custom plugin for tag hierarchy

gregreda.com

• Site: http://www.gregreda.com/
• Theme: custom based on Skeleton
• Features:
  • Mobile-responsive design
  • Google Analytics
  • Disqus comments
  • Pygments

bytefish.de

• Site: http://www.bytefish.de
• Source: https://github.com/bytefish/bytefish.de
• Theme: custom
• Features:
  • Disqus comments
  • Pygments

unikorn.me

• Site: http://blog.unikorn.me
• Source: not released
• Features
  • Custom theme based on amazium
    • super-lightweight
    • responsive design - works on mobile and desktop
    • Dynamic canvas background
  • Disqus comments
  • syntax highlighting

ascraeus.org

• Site: http://ascraeus.org
• Source: not released
• Theme: Custom based on old tumblr theme, now utilising Skeleton
• Features:
  • Responsive design
  • disqus comments

onCrash = Reboot();

• Site: http://oncrashreboot.com/
• Source: https://github.com/talha131/onCrashReboot
• Theme: Elegant
• Features:
  • Site Search using open source Tipue Search plugin
  • Mailchimp support
  • Responsive design
  • Clean but elegant UI

Naeka Blog

• Site: https://blog.naeka.fr/
• Theme: Custom, made using Twitter Bootstrap 3
• Features:
  • Deployment automation via Travis-CI
  • Responsive design
  • Minimalist
  • Google analytics
  • Pagination

nortonwang.com

• Site: http://nortonwang.com/
• Source: https://github.com/FloorLamp/nortonwang-com
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Minimal and responsive

letchap.github.io

• Site: http://letchap.github.io
• Source: https://github.com/letchap/letchap.github.io
• Theme: https://github.com/letchap/letchap.github.io/tree/source/mon-theme
• Features:
  • Theme Foundation
  • Disqus
  • Google analytics
  • RSS feed
  • Pygments
  • Custom markdown extension to include code

Data Driven Security

• Site: http://datadrivensecurity.info/blog
• Theme: modified sundown
• Features:
  • Disqus
  • Google, iwik analytics
  • RSS feed
  • Pygments
  • Auto-generation from github service hooks

sagar.se

• Site: http://sagar.se
• Source: https://github.com/sagarbehere/sagar.se
• Theme: a slightly modified version of pelican-octopress-theme
• Theme source: https://github.com/sagarbehere/pelican-octopress-theme
• Features:
  • Dropdown CSS menu in navbar
  • https friendly. No mixed content warnings

omphalosskeptic.github.io

• Site: http://omphalosskeptic.github.io
• Source: https://github.com/omphalosskeptic/omphalosskeptic.github.io
• Theme: Based on Simple
• Features:
  • Minimal design & Readable Typography

zufallsheld.de

• Site: http://zufallsheld.de
• Source: https://github.com/rndmh3ro/blog
• Theme: Customized pelican-bootstrap3
• Features:
  • isso commenting system, self-hosted
  • Piwik support
  • minimalist, responsive design
  • RSS feeds

thesoldiersfamily.com

• Site: http://www.thesoldiersfamily.com
• Source: Not Published
• Theme: Custom based on porto
• Features:
  • Search
  • Responsive
  • Normal web page stuff

pythonclub.com.br

• Site: pythonclub.com.br
• Source: https://github.com/pythonclub/pythonclub.github.io
• Theme: Custom based on http://purepelican.com/ theme
• Features:
  • Search
  • Responsive by google search
  • Normal web page stuff
  • RSS feeds
  • Disqus
  • Share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+
  • Author personal facebook, twitter, Linkedin, Github, Gittip, Bitbucket
  • Google analytics
  • Pygments
  • Auto-generation from github service hooks

pythonworld.ru

• Site: http://pythonworld.ru
• Source: Not Published
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Responsive by google search
  • RSS feeds
  • Disqus
  • Share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Vkontakte
  • Pygments

SignalSurvival

• Site: https://www.signalsurvival.com
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Responsive Design
  • Search
  • Contact form with Formspree.io
  • Aweber integration with pages for sign-up, "make sure to click link in email", and "thanks for subscribing"

abr4xas.org

• Site: http://blog.abr4xas.org/
• Source: https://github.com/abr4xas/pblog
• Theme: a modified version of Casper
• Features:
  • DISQUS
  • OPEN GRAPH
  • GOOGLE ANALYTICS
  • Responsive Design

ODonnellWeb

• Site: http://odonnellweb.com/pelican
• Source: Not published yet
• Theme: Slightly edited version of Flex
• Features:
  • RSS feed
  • 13+ years of archives imported from Wordpress
  • Disqus comments

RoPython

• Site: http://ropython.org
• Source: https://github.com/RoPython/ropython-site
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Highly customized navigation
  • Customized category/tag pages
  • Plugins: assets, sitemap, headerid etc

Frogtoss Games

• Site: http://www.frogtoss.com
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Graphical icons for news stories
  • Company landing page with news-style design

Frogtoss Labs

• Site: http://www.frogtoss.com/labs
• Theme: Custom
• Features:
  • Compression and offsite imagery in case Notch links us
  • A completely separate implementation from frogtoss.com

blog.henriquelopes.com.br

• Site: http://blog.henriquelopes.com.br
• Source: https://github.com/riquellopes/riquellopes.github.io
• Theme: notmyidea

boddy.im

• Site: http://boddy.im
• Theme: pure-single

tiborsimon.io

• Site: https://tiborsimon.io
• Theme: Escape Velocity custom theme
• Site core: https://github.com/tiborsimon/tiborsimon.io-core
• Site content: https://github.com/tiborsimon/tiborsimon.io-content

semiversus.com

• Site: https://www.semiversus.com
• Theme: Bootstrap based custom theme
• Source: https://github.com/semiversus/semiversus.github.io-source
• Features:

• Commenting with Isso

Simputer

• Site: https://snorl.ax
• Theme: forked from Wordpress
• Features:
  • Commenting with Isso
  • Hosted on Firebase Hosting
  • Tipue Search
  • Series
  • Svg version of font awesome

Pelican Themes

• Site: http://www.pelicanthemes.com/
• Theme: bootstrap
• Features:
  • RSS feed
  • Atom feed

ndt.me.uk

• http://ndt.me.uk
• Theme: pelican-blue
• Features: None yet, need to invest more time with Pelican :)

omiday.infrabit.net

• http://omiday.infrabit.net/
• Theme:
  • modified tuxlite_tbs
  • Atom Feed
  • Tipue Search
• "Hosted on Github" ribbon ("Hosted" yes)
• "Short URLs" using :url: and :save_as: metadata tags

Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group

• Website: https://nairobilug.or.ke/
• Source: https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke
• Theme: Alchemy ✨

Ducker website

• Website: http://www.freakspot.net/programas/ducker/
• Source: https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker-website
• Theme: https://notabug.org/Ducker/ducker-website-theme (modified version of Blue Penguin)
• Useful feature: The custom theme of the website displays Atom feeds for different languages.

Full Stack Python

• Website: https://www.fullstackpython.com/
• Source: https://github.com/mattmakai/fullstackpython.com

Khaled Monsoor :: blog

• website: https://blog.kmonsoor.com/
• Source: https://github.com/kmonsoor/blog.kmonsoor.com/
• Theme: Optimized version of Plumage by Kevin Deldycke
• Useful feature: There are some SEO-related optimizations in the custom-version

Freak Spot

• Site: https://www.freakspot.net/
• Source: https://notabug.org/Freak-Spot/Freak-Spot
• Theme: Custom theme inspired by a Wordpress theme called Twenty Fifteen
• Useful feature: It uses the Hashover comment system

m.css: a no-nonsense, no-JavaScript CSS framework and Pelican theme for content-oriented websites

• Site: http://mcss.mosra.cz/
• Source: https://github.com/mosra/m.css
• Features:
  • Responsive, mobile-friendly HTML5 theme
  • Developed with performance and simplicity in mind
  • Plugins extending Pelican for better HTML output, code blocks, math and photography presentation

Vincent Canfield's Blog

• Site: https://vc.gg/blog/

John Sobanski

• Site: https://john.soban.ski
• Source code: https://github.com/hatdropper1977/john.soban.ski
• Features:
  • Integrates Disqus comments
  • Uses Cloudfront, S3 and AWS Cert manager for HTTPS

Way of Numbers

• Site: https://wayofnumbers.github.io/
• Source code: https://github.com/wayofnumbers/wayofnumbers.github.io
• Features:
  • Theme: Optimized version of Elegant
  • Integrates Disqus comments
  • Integrated Google Analytics
  • Feature a estimated article read time indicator
  • Use of Google WebFonts
  • SEO optimizations (sitemap, Canonical link, Google Search Console Integration)
  • On-site Search
  • Table of contents for articles.

Matthew Kudija blog

• Site: http://matthewkudija.com/blog
• Source code: https://github.com/mkudija/blog
• Features:
  • Integrates Disqus comments
  • Integrated Google Analytics
  • Integrated Mailchimp subscribe

Canux CHENG blog

• Site: http://canuxcheng.com/
• Source code: https://github.com/crazy-canux/blog_pelican
• Features:
  • Theme: https://github.com/crazy-canux/pelican-theme-canux

Matthew Graybosch's website

• Site: https://www.matthewgraybosch.com
• Source code: https://github.com/matthewgraybosch/pelican.matthewgraybosch.com
• Features:
  • Custom theme inspired by this website and this other website.
  • Custom theme code available at https://github.com/matthewgraybosch/oedipus-pelican-starter
  • Built-in SEO including Open Graph tagging.
  • Sitemap
  • Basic responsive images
  • DNS Prefetching for YouTube embeds
  • Basic accessibility including "skip to main" and "back to top" links.
  • .htaccess file
  • humans.txt file

tutorials.technology

• Site: https://tutorials.technology/
• Source: Not released yet
• Theme: custom theme using css grid
• Features:
  • Articles are stored in mongodb
  • CSS Grid theme
  • Custom Makefile

The No Title® Tech Blog

• Site: https://no-title.victordomingos.com
• Source: https://github.com/victordomingos/The-No-Title-Tech-Blog
• Theme: A heavily customized version of Pelican Alchemy.
• Features:
  • Articles are stored in Markdown files and code samples are styled with Pygments.
  • Custom scripts for easily building and uploading the website directly from iOS (with Pythonista).
  • Using advthumbnailer plugin to generate thumbnail images.
  • Using neighbors plugin to display links to previous and next article.
  • Using minify and minification plugins and to minify code.
  • Using related_posts to display a list of related posts in bottom of each article's page.
  • Using sitemap plugin.
  • Basic back to top icon.
  • Page load time indicator in the footer.
  • Random avatar images in the page header (randomized from a folder of images, during the build process).

Arnaud R blog

• Site: http://arnaudr.io
• Source code: https://gitlab.com/elboulangero/arnaudr.io
• Theme: Modified version of Pelican Hyde
  • Vertical sidebar

Ludochaordic

• Site: https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/
• Source: https://github.com/Lucas-C/ludochaordic
• Theme: A fork of pelican-mg that supports isso comments, images lazy loading, pingback/webmention URLs and list of current book readings -> https://github.com/Lucas-C/pelican-mg
• Features:
  • Uses livereload when editing articles to automatically reload browser tab upon file modification
  • in publish mode, a couple of plugins allow for autopublishing articles on a Shaarli instance, and sending pingbacks & webmentions

Zalando Engineering Blog

• Site: https://engineering.zalando.com/
• Source: not released
• Theme: custom
• Features:
  • sitemap plugin
  • custom metadata parsing for author titles
  • parse date and slug from file name

Rolf Leggewie Portfolio

• Site: https://portfolio.leggewie.org
• Source: https://gitlab.com/leggewie/leggewie.gitlab.io
• Theme: custom

csrlabs.io - High Availability with Home Hardware

• Site: https://csrlabs.io
• Theme: custom
• Features:
  • Responsive site based on bootstrap
  • Sitemap plugin
  • Social cards and Twitter cards
  • Comments powered by Isso Comments

Linuxtreff St. Gallen

• Site: https://sg.linuxtreff.ch/
• Source: https://github.com/PJaros/sg.linuxtreff.ch
• Theme: Customized Foundation-default-colours → Preview
• Features:
  • Responsive site based on "Foundation 5"
  • Embedded OpenStreetMap powered by Leaflet
  • Sticky footer (Footer is always at bottom of page, even on half-empty pages)