Pelican

It’s good to be back up and running at 100%. As mentioned previously, the tool I use to build this site is the Pelican static site generator. Pelican Site Generator Link I tried to update my prior theme with the updated search plugin that relies on a tool called stork. While I was able to set up stork and get it to work. I ran into issues with getting the search to integrate nicely with my pelican theme. I did do some modifications to the theme, but really didn’t want to do extensive reworking of an old theme. ...

I use the Pelican static site generator for this site. A static site generator is a way to pre-build all of the content for a web-site. This provides faster page downloads, lower server requirements, and better security for the site. I was using the Tipue Search plug-in to provide search for the site. I learned that particular plug-in has been deprecated and has been replaced with a different search plugin that promises to be much faster. ...

The process for creating blogposts for this site with Pelican is working pretty good. However, once the site was generated, the process was to launch my favorite FTP application, Filezilla. Then connect to the can of worms site and copy the content to the server. That is rather a manual process… so, there’s got to be an easier way! When I set up Pelican, it created a “make” file that automates a lot of actions. You can find documentation about the make command on the Pelican site. ...

OK, I’ve been pretty slow with writing articles for this little can of worms. Hope to pick up the pace next year. So, while thinking about it, I decided it might be a good idea to get my installation of Pelican up to date. So, I checked the version using the pelican --version command and found I was on version 3.7.1. The current version is 4.2.0; so, it seemed like a good idea to update. ...

OK, I admit it. I goofed. Linux Mint 19, Tara came out at the end of June and I was very excited about doing the update. I used the instructions from the ‘How to upgrade to Linux Mint 19’ tutorial to perform the steps. As instructed, I used the Timeshift tool to make a backup and proceeded. Unfortunately, the upgrade did not go well and I ended up with a non-bootable Mint installation. At this point, I should have followed the advise in section C2 of the upgrade tutorial and run Timeshift from the bootable USB drive that I was using to recover my back up files. But, I didn’t. ...