[[pelican-attila-theme]]
= Attila
A content focused responsive pelican theme
:toc: left

[[overview]]
== Overview

A content focused responsive theme for
https://github.com/getpelican/pelican[Pelican].

It is ported from ghost theme
https://github.com/zutrinken/attila[attila]

[[demo]]
== Demo

* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo[Blog]
* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/2015/11/headlines-blockquotes-images.html[Post]
* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/tag/general/[Tag Archive]
* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/author/zutrinken/[Author
Archive]
* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/archives.html[All archive]
* https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/pages/about/[Page]

Demo blog https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila-demo[source code]

[[install]]
== Install


The recommend way to install is using pelican-themes command.

* Download latest zip from
https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila/releases[release]
* Unzip that file
* Then `sudo pelican-themes -U attila` . Here attila is the extracted
folder name
* Now list all themes `sudo pelican-themes -l`
* Use that theme name in your pelicanconf.py

[[features]]
== Features

* Responsive layout
* Navigation support
* Paralax cover images for posts, author archives and blog
* Author informations for posts and author archives
* Featured posts (via
https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/neighbors[plugin])
* Reading progress for posts
* Automatic code syntax highlight
* Disqus support
* Google Analytics, GAUGES and PIWIKI
* Sharing buttons
* Open Graph
* Rich Snippets (JSON-LD)
* link:#code-highlights[Multiple Code Highlight Styles]

[[configuration]]
== Configurations

The attila docs hosted in http://arulrajnet.github.io/attila[attila-docs]

[[setup-a-blog]]
=== Setup a blog

Refer
https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila-demo/blob/master/pelicanconf.py[more
setting]

Here are all configurations about this theme.

[[header-covers]]
=== Header Covers

To define custom header cover, set the property `HEADER_COVER` in
`pelicanconf.py`:

[source,python]
----
HEADER_COVER = 'static/my_image.png'
----

This is site level cover image and it will be used If there is no cover
image set in link:#articles[article] level.

[[header-color]]
=== Header Color

To define a simple header background color, set the property
`HEADER_COLOR` in `pelicanconf.py`:

[source,python]
----
HEADER_COLOR = 'black'
----

you can use any valid css color. This will be used if there is no cover
image set in link:#articles[article] level and site level.

[[social-urls]]
=== Social URLs

Github, Twitter and Facebook URLs set these properties:

[source,python]
----
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/myprofile'),
          ('github', 'https://github.com/myprofile'),
          ('facebook','https://facebook.com/myprofile'),
          ('flickr','https://www.flickr.com/myprofile/'),
          ('envelope','mailto:my@mail.address'))
----

[[external-feed-url]]
=== External feed URL

You can specify an external feed URL (e.g. FeedBurner) in `SOCIAL` using
the `rss` or `rss-square` or `feed` icons. A `<link>` tag for the
external feed will be placed in `<head>` instead of the default Pelican
feeds.

[[code-highlights]]
=== Code highlights

This theme contains this color schemes:

* Tomorrow - `tomorrow.css`;
* Tomorrow Night - `tomorrow_night.css`;
* Monokai - `monokai.css`;
* Github (Default) - `github.css`;
* Darkly - `darkly.css`;

To customize, define `COLOR_SCHEME_CSS` in `pelicanconf.py` with css
filename. Example:

[source,python]
----
COLOR_SCHEME_CSS = 'monokai.css'
----

[[user-defined-css]]
=== User defined CSS

Define `CSS_OVERRIDE` in `pelicanconf.py` to insert a user defined CSS
file after theme CSS. Example:

Array of CSS you can give

[source,python]
----
CSS_OVERRIDE = ['css/myblog.css']
----

[[user-defined-script]]
=== User defined script

[source,python]
----
JS_OVERRIDE = ['']
----

[[author-bio]]
=== Author Bio

....
AUTHORS_BIO = {
  "zutrinken": {
    "name": "Zutrinken",
    "cover": "https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/assets/images/avatar.png",
    "image": "https://arulrajnet.github.io/attila-demo/assets/images/avatar.png",
    "website": "http://blog.arulraj.net",
    "location": "Chennai",
    "bio": "This is the place for a small biography with max 200 characters. Well, now 100 are left. Cool, hugh?"
  }
}
....

[[analytics]]
=== Analytics

Accept many analytics:

* Google Analytics: `GOOGLE_ANALYTICS`;
* Gauges: `GAUGES`
* Piwik: `PIWIK_URL` and `PIWIK_SITE_ID`.

[[sidebar-menu]]
=== Sidebar Menu

The menu item coming from pelican pages.
You have to create pages folder under link::https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila-demo/tree/master/content/pages[content directory].
Whatever articles there in this folder will be pages.


[[articles]]
=== Article Cover

* To customize header color to articles, insert the metadata `color`.
* To customize header cover to articles, insert the metadata `cover`,
otherwise `og_image` or `HEADER_COVER` will be used.
* To customize OpenGraph images, insert the metadata `og_image`,
otherwise `cover`, `HEADER_COVER` or a
https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila/blob/master/static/images/post-bg.jpg[default
image] from theme will be used.
* To customize Twitter card images, insert the metadata `twitter_image`,
otherwise `header_cover`, `HEADER_COVER` or a default image from theme
will be used. Twitter cards will be generated automatically if the
`twitter` account is configured in `SOCIAL`!

All image paths are relative from the site root directory. You can also
use absolute URLs for `og_image` and `twitter_image`.


[[other-configuration]]
=== Other configuration

* `GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION` - Google site verification token;
* Set `SHOW_FULL_ARTICLE` to True to show full article content on
index.html instead of summary;
* Set `FACEBOOK_ADMINS` to a list of Facebook account IDs which are
associated with this blog. For example `['12345']`. For more info see
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/platforminsights/domains

[[development]]
== Development

refer this https://github.com/arulrajnet/attila-demo

*Author Screen* image:screenshot.png[screenshot]

[[contributing]]
=== Contributing

Always open an issue before sending a PR. Talk about the problem/feature
that you want to fix. If it’s really a good thing you can submit your
PR. If you send an PR without talking about before what it is, you may
work for nothing.

As always, if you want something that only make sense to you, just fork
attila and start a new theme.

[[donate]]
== Donate

Did you liked this theme? Pay my bills and support new features.

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[[copyright-license]]
== Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Peter Amende - Released under The MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2016 Arulraj V - Released under The MIT License.

Some background images used from
https://github.com/gilsondev/pelican-clean-blog
