minchin.pelican.plugins.static-comments 2.1.2

A Pelican plugin, which allows you to add static comments to your articles.

Pelican Static Comment System

Pelican Static Comment System allows you to add static comments to your articles.

Comments are received via email (i.e. you don’t need to maintain a server to receive comments). Comments are stored in files in formats that can be processed by Pelican (e.g., Markdown, reStructuredText). Each comment resides in its own file.

Features

• Static comments for each article

• Replies to comments

• Avatars and Identicons

• Comment Atom feed for each article

• Easily style-able via themes

• Python 3 support

See it in action here: bernhard.scheirle.de

Author	Website	Github
Bernhard Scheirle	http://bernhard.scheirle.de	https://github.com/Scheirle
William Minchin	https://blog.minchin.ca	https://github.com/MinchinWeb/blog.minchin.ca

Instructions

• Quickstart Guide

• Installation and basic usage

• Import existing comments

• Avatars and identicons

• Comment Atom feed

• [Developer] How to do a release

PyPi

The Pelican Comment System is now also in the Python Package Index and can easily installed via:

pip install minchin.pelican.plugins.static-comments

Requirements

Pelican 3.4 or newer is required.

To create identicons, the Python Image Library is needed. Therefore you either need PIL or Pillow (recommended). If you install the plugin from pip, Pillow will automatically be installed.

Install Pillow manually via:

pip install Pillow

If you don’t want avatars or identicons, this plugin works fine without PIL/Pillow. You will, however, see a warning that identicons are deactivated (as expected).

Change Log

The change log can be found in the CHANGELOG.rst file.

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

2.1.2 - 2023-08-09

Support

• blacklist autoloader v1.2.0

2.1.1 - 2022-04-29

Fixed

• Readme link targets

2.1.0 - 2022-04-10

Fixed

• generating slugs should now work across Pelican 3.7, 4.0-4.2, and 4.5+. The slugs should also match “old” versions (pre 2.0.0) of the plugin as well. Use the form replyto: 1md (no period for file extension start).

Added

• add prefix (“[Static Comments]”) to all logging messages

2.0.0 - 2022-04-08

Fixed

• [This is no longer the case with v2.1.0.] the replyto field now takes the whole filename, rather than “eating” the dot in filenames. E.g. old: replyto: 1md; new: replyto: 1.md. You will need to update any comments that contain this field. If you don’t update, a warning will appear when you generate your site.

Added

• automatically activates on Pelican 4.5+. If automatic loading isn’t working, refer to the installation instructions for my autoloader plugin.

• Blogger comment exporter script is now available on the commandline as blogger-comment-export

Changes

• move GitHub repo to MinchinWeb/minchin.pelican.plugins.static-comments

• plugin name, as listed in PLUGINS in pelicanconf.py, is now minchin.pelican.plugin.static_comments. Generally, though, the entry can be completely removed and instead rely on the auto-loading of plugins provided by Pelican 4.5+.

Unresolved

• documentation may (in places) still need to be updated

1.4.0 - 2017-02-20

Added

• add setup.py to allow posting plugin to PyPI PR #862

1.3.0 - 2017-01-10

Added

• add blogger_comment_export.py script to export comments from Blogger XML export and associated documentation PR #835

1.2.2 - 2016-12-19

Fixed

• Correct jQuery expression in cancelReply method PR #820

1.2.1 - 2016-09-22

Fixed

• Add support for the autoreload mode of pelican PR #782 Fixes pelican#1949

1.2.0 - 2016-05-23

Fixed - Documentation

• Correct template path PR #713

Added - Documentation

• Adds Quickstart guide + default theme PR #686

Fixed

• Fix mailto link: use ‘’ instead of ‘’ PR #720

• Fix comparison of offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes PR #722

Added

• Logs a warning if the parent of a comment can not be found PR #715

1.1.0 - 2016-02-18

Fixed - Documentation

• Updated old URLs PR #677

Changed

• Main logic runs a bit earlier (allows other plugins to access comments earlier) PR #677

• The writer to generate the feeds can now be exchanged (via a normal pelican writer plugin) PR #677

1.0.1 - 2015-10-04

Fixed - Documentation

• Add commas indicating tuple (PELICAN_COMMENT_SYSTEM_AUTHORS) PR #579

1.0.0 - 2014-11-05

Added

• Basic static comments

• Atom Feeds

• Replies to comments

• Avatars and identicons

This change log uses Keep a CHANGELOG as a template.