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Eevee the Pokémon

This week I pushed the 0.0.3 update for my Pelican theme Eevee containing new and improved styling for share buttons and adding the ability to use Muut instead of Disqus for comments.

Share button changes

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

Eevee's original share button styling

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.

Eevee's new 0.0.3 share button styling

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.

Eevee's new 0.0.3 article share button styling

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 …

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Lightbox

Introduction

With the release of my Eevee theme for Pelican, I realised displaying a thumbnail image of the theme that linked to a larger image wasn’t the most appealing design choice. I prefer to leave Javascript out of the equation where possible, being one of those weird people that have it disabled by default.

As such I sought out a way to create a pure CSS equivalent of a Lightbox and turn it in to an RST directive to plug directly in to Pelican.