This repository contains my personal blog powered by Pelican and hosted on GitHub Pages. It's accessible at forestdussault.com.

To create a new blog post, use the new-post command in the Justfile:

just new-post "Your Post Title" "Category"

This will create a new Markdown file in the content directory with the proper frontmatter. The category parameter is optional and defaults to "General".

To publish a post to GitHub Pages, run the following:

just github

This command will:

1. Generate the site
2. Pull the latest changes from the repository
3. Push the generated content to the gh-pages branch
4. Configure the custom domain (if set in the Justfile)

The blog uses GitHub Pages for hosting with the following workflow:

1. Content is written in Markdown in the content directory
2. Pelican converts the Markdown to HTML
3. The just github command uses ghp-import to push the generated HTML to the gh-pages branch
4. GitHub Pages serves the content from the gh-pages branch

This blog uses a customized version of the Cid theme. To customize the theme futher:

1. Modify the theme settings in pelicanconf.py
2. Theme templates are located in themes/cid/templates/
3. CSS styling can be modified in themes/cid/static/css/
4. To change social links or contact information, update the CONTACTS and CONTACT_EMAIL variables in pelicanconf.py

For more advanced theme customization, you can modify the templates directly to change the layout and appearance of the blog.