pelican-minification 1.0.0

Minifies HTML, CSS and JS of generated Pelican content.

Note that the plugin name changed to `pelican.plugins.minification` with version 1.0.0!

Content minification for the Pelican site generator. This plugin can compress HTML & CSS files as well as inline CSS and JavaScript in HTML files.

Installation and Usage

pelican-minification depends on the following packages that will be installed automatically, see below:

• htmlmin

• csscompressor

• jsmin

• BeautifulSoup

• Pelican

Install pelican-minification into your Python interpreter using pip:

pip install pelican-minification

Then add the plugin to the PLUGINS setting within your pelicanconf.py:

PLUGINS = [
    ...
    'pelican.plugins.minification',
]

Upon calling the pelican command now, all HTML and CSS files are compressed automatically; including inline JavaScript and CSS rules in <script> and <style> tags.

To configure the behavior of the plugin, add the following variables in your pelicanconf.py (here are the default values):

CSS_MIN = True
HTML_MIN = True
INLINE_CSS_MIN = True
INLINE_JS_MIN = True

Please note that INLINE_CSS_MIN and INLINE_JS_MIN require HTML_MIN be enabled.

Contributors

• darignac (original code)

• ysard (refactoring 2022)