pelican-plugins/liquid_tags

Liquid-style Tags

Author: Jake Vanderplas jakevdp@cs.washington.edu

This plugin allows liquid-style tags to be inserted into markdown within Pelican documents. Liquid uses tags bounded by {% ... %}, and is used to extend markdown in other blogging platforms such as octopress.

This set of extensions does not actually interface with liquid, but allows users to define their own liquid-style tags which will be inserted into the markdown preprocessor stream. There are several built-in tags, which can be added as follows.

First, in your pelicanconf.py file, add the plugins you want to use:

PLUGIN_PATH = '/path/to/pelican-plugins'
PLUGINS = ['liquid_tags.img', 'liquid_tags.video',
           'liquid_tags.include_code']

There are several options available

Image Tag

To insert a sized and labeled image in your document, enable the liquid_tags.video plugin and use the following:

{% img [class name(s)] path/to/image [width [height]] [title text | "title text" ["alt text"]] %}

Video Tag

To insert flash/HTML5-friendly video into a post, enable the liquid_tags.video plugin, and add to your document:

{% video /url/to/video.mp4 [width] [height] [/path/to/poster.png] %}

The width and height are in pixels, and can be optionally specified. If they are not, then the original video size will be used. The poster is an image which is used as a preview of the video.

To use a video from file, make sure it's in a static directory and put in the appropriate url.

Include Code

To include code from a file in your document with a link to the original file, enable the liquid_tags.include_code plugin, and add to your document:

{% include_code myscript.py [Title text] %}

The script must be in the code subdirectory of your content folder, and in order for the resulting hyperlink to work, this directory must be listed under the STATIC_PATHS setting, e.g.:

STATIC_PATHS = ['images', 'code']