Random Article Plugin For Pelican

This plugin generates a html file which redirect to a random article using javascript's window.location. The generated html file is saved at SITEURL.

Only published articles are listed to redirect.

Installation

To enable, ensure that random_article.py is put somewhere that is accessible. Then use as follows by adding the following to your settings.py:

PLUGINS = ["random_article"]

An easy way to find where pelican is installed is to verbose list the available themes by typing pelican-themes -l -v.

Once the pelican folder is found, copy random_article.py to the plugins folder. Then add to settings.py like this:

PLUGINS = ["pelican.plugins.random_article"]

To use it you have to add in your config file the name of the file to use:

RANDOM = 'random.html'

Then in some template you add:

<a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ RANDOM }}">random article</a>