Pelican comes with a nice command line tool pelican-quickstart. It
generates a starter project including pelicanconf.py, publishconf.py,
tasks.py, and other files and directories. The source code file
pelican_quickstart.py is a nice example on how to create similar programs.
It is not difficult to write a program which generates a new Pelican starter
post. The benefit of the program is that it can automatically fill some meta fields.
It can also present a list of tags that already used in other posts, and the user
can pick one or more tags from the list. In addition, each post will have
consistent meta fields. I write the
newpost.py python program
for this purpose.
Here is how to run the program.
(georgexyz.com) george@desktop:~/Desktop/georgexyz.com$ python newpost.py
Welcome to pelican-post v4.2.0.
This script will help you create a new pelican post.
Please answer the following questions so this script can generate the post.
> Where do you want to save the markdown file? [content/posts]
> What will be the title of this post? [NEW TITLE] Python Program
to Create New Pelican Post
> What will be the slug of this post? [python-program-to-create
-new-pelican-post]create-new-pelican-post
> What will be the date/time of the post? [2020-05-02 15:47]
The newpost.py program calls Pelican itself to read all existing posts and
presents the tags on a list. Before using the program, I usually open the
“Tags” page of my blog website to pick one
or more tags for the new post. The program can also generate a related_posts
meta field if a user chooses to do so. Feel free to copy and modify the program
for your own site.
> Tags already used in other posts (choose one or more):
1 -> WSGI
2 -> bash
3 -> books
4 -> bootstrap
5 -> django
6 -> flask
7 -> inkscape
8 -> javascript
9 -> linux
10 -> linux mint
11 -> pelican
12 -> python
13 -> software utility
14 -> traffic engineering
15 -> ubuntu
16 -> vim
17 -> web development
> Choose one or more tags (e.g. 1, 4) 0 to enter new tag(s)
[0] 11, 12
> Do you want to add related posts? (y/N) y
> Posts with same tags (choose one or more)
1 -> Pelican Related Posts and Translation
2 -> Print Python Source Code on Paper
3 -> Pelican Source Code and Plugin
......
> Choose one or more articles (e.g. 1, 3) 0 to cancel [0] 1
> Add a number for the post (start from 1) [41]
> Add a short note to yourself for this post? [note to be added]
A post about how to create new Pelican post.
> Write the first sentence of the article [This is the
first sentence ...]
Done. Your new post is available at content/posts
(georgexyz.com) george@desktop:~/Desktop/desktop/georgexyz.com$