Introduction

Eevee is a theme for Pelican, based on Google’s Material Design specification that I released in June 2016.

Schema.org is a collaborative effort, including private companies like Google and the open source community to promoter adding additional structure to data that indentifies what parts of HTML are being used for, for example it can help a search engine understand what content is more important to index or, it can help a user with a screen reader get to the important content more easily. These structures are more commonly known as microformats or microdata.

Structure is a beautiful thing

HTML — by it’s very design is structured — the difference is that the content defines or modifies that structure.

By using microformat data structures from schema.org you can define what elements are more prominent or important through a large set of additional vocabulary, improving the experience for everyone …

Share button changes

The original styling of the share buttons wasn’t particularly pretty.

They badly needed a make over, and so they were restyled to be more prominent, look less out of place and randomly pasted in to the page and to have a colour scheme that matches the social media site they share to.

These buttons appear on articles and pages, but when viewing an article with DISQUS_SITENAME or MUUT_SITENAME enabled a fourth button is shown that links to the comments section of the current article.

Comments powered by Muut

To enable commenting with Muut, simply modify pelicanconf.py and set the Muut site name.

MUUT_SITENAME = 'somethinghere'

This will automatically cause Eevee to enable …

Introduction

Eevee is a theme for Pelican, based on Google’s Material Design specification that I released in June 2016.

Eevee allows configuring menu links in the header and footer of a template — including social links.

Eevee also includes Font Awesome by default, at time of release and writing of this article it provides Font Awesome version 4.6.3.

Because the links are totally customisable, it means you can inject HTML directly in to a link name and — because Font Awesome is included by default — you can inject Font Awesome icons in to link names using HTML.

Using icons in links

Menu’s in Eevee are controlled by Pelican’s configuration, for information on how to modify menu’s please see the Eevee documentation.

Imagine you have a list of links to social websites in your menu, similar to the list below.

SOCIAL = (('Github', 'https://github.com/'),
          ('Twitter', 'https …

Introduction

Eevee is a theme for Pelican, based on Google’s Material Design specification. It is named after the Pokémon Eevee because — like the Pokémon — it can evolve in to many ‘elemental types.’