Pelican |build-status| |pypi-version|
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Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python_.

* Write content in reStructuredText_ or Markdown_ using your editor of choice
* Includes a simple command line tool to (re)generate site files
* Easy to interface with version control systems and web hooks
* Completely static output is simple to host anywhere


Features
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Pelican currently supports:

* Chronological content (e.g., articles, blog posts) as well as static pages
* Integration with external services (e.g., Google Analytics and Disqus)
* Site themes (created using Jinja2_ templates)
* Publication of articles in multiple languages
* Generation of Atom and RSS feeds
* Syntax highlighting via Pygments_
* Importing existing content from WordPress, Dotclear, and other services
* Fast rebuild times due to content caching and selective output writing

Check out `Pelican's documentation`_ for further information.


How to get help, contribute, or provide feedback
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See our `contribution submission and feedback guidelines <CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_.


Source code
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Pelican's source code is `hosted on GitHub`_. If you feel like hacking,
take a look at `Pelican's internals`_.


Why the name "Pelican"?
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"Pelican" is an anagram of *calepin*, which means "notebook" in French.


.. Links

.. _Python: https://www.python.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Markdown: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
.. _`Pelican's documentation`: https://docs.getpelican.com/
.. _`Pelican's internals`: https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/internals.html
.. _`hosted on GitHub`: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

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