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Step 6 - Adding Details for the Reader

The two main reasons people use the internet are to be entertained and seek infomation.

The Python syntax is super easy to read and follow. Pelican is also very simple and ideal for you as an introduction to programming. This tutorial will help you set up a blog, a website or both depending on what need is. And host it on GitHub for the world to see.

In step six, you will fill in a few details before you in the next step will upload and host it on GitHub

Adding Blog or website links

Open pelicanconf.py
Add blog links
The first part, between the first two apostrophes is the text you see, the second part is the url for the page.

LINKS = (('Chobani Greek Plain Yogurt', 'https://www.chobani.com/'),
        ('Fage Greek Plain Yogurt', 'https://usa.fage/'),
        ('Wallaby Organic Aussie Greek Whole Milk Plain Yogurt', 'https://wallabyyogurt.com/'),)

Adding Social Links

Also in pelicanconf.py
Add social links
The first part, between the first two apostrophes is the text you see, the second part is the link to what you are linking to.

# Social widget
SOCIAL = (('The True Yogurt Lover', '#'),
        ('Not Just Another Yo', '#'),)

Adding a few more blog posts

In preparation for next step's upload, you can add a few more posts to the blog.

See the Website

In terminal, make html and then make serve
The page in your browser, should look something like this.

website with changes

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Step 5 - The Blog

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Step 4 - Fix Errors

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When things go wrong, error messages are your best friends.

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Step 3 - Add the First Page

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Step three, creating the first page of your site. Most websites need pages like an about page or author bios. Information on these pages rarely change.

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Step 2 - Understand the Pelican Files and Folders

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Step two, we're going to look at the files that was set up when we ran pelican-quickstart

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Step 1 - Set Up Pelican Blog/Website

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Step one is going to be a lot of installing and setting up. Laying the foundation for your site.

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I love Python

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It still amazes me how intuitive and easy it is to work in anything Python, frameworks, scripts, modules, packages, libraries.

I decided to redo my website and was looking for a python solution, when I came across Pelican.

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Hello World

Published: Fri 05 April 2024 | Tags: programming,

Hello world
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