As you've already read in previous posts, I switched my blog from Wordpress to Pelican, for a simpler, smoother, static page interface that can still be built in an automated way. One of the cool things about Pelican is that it does allow themes and there are a lot of pre-made themes to choose from. That said, some of them are really, really good, and some of them are not so much.
Of course, to change your theme, you simply have to edit your pelicanconf.py file and add the theme line:
THEME = "/home/alaskalinuxuser/pelican-themes/aboutwilson"
And point the theme to a folder containing the theme you want. Pretty simple, and it allows you to change the theme instantly, and rebuild the website in about 40 seconds, which is really nice!
That said, I was talking with a buddy of mine, and we realized there are a lot more themes out there than the officially supported themes, and I wanted to compile a list of what I knew of, in case I ever needed them again. So here it goes, in no particular order....
- https://pelicanthemes.com/
- https://github.com/kmonsoor/awesome-pelican
- https://github.com/pelican-themes/papyrus
- https://jamstackthemes.dev/ssg/pelican/
- http://hail-hydra.click/
- https://www.dariotordoni.com/dtheme/
- https://floatingoctothorpe.uk/2017/writing-custom-pelican-themes.html
- https://kura.gg/hauntr/
- https://github.com/topics/pelican-theme
Some of these are links to a single theme, and some are a collection of themes. Some also have duplicates of some of the themes, and some have a different theme with the same name (confusing, I know)!
The three I would recommend checking out in the above list are hail-hydra, pelicanthemes.com, and the github topic pelican-theme lists. Most of the others are one to four themes, but these three each have a lot of themes collected in one place, in some cases over 100 themes.
Linux - keep it simple.