When porting my blog from Drupal to Pelican, I wanted to preserve
my clean URLs as much as possible for old blog entries.
In Pelican you typically achieve this by making sure each article has
a slug metadata entry with the desired clean URL and setting up
_SAVE_AS …
Here's a quick (and dirty?) trick to create a tag cloud in Pelican without plugins and minimal amount of code.
Define a jinja filter in pelicanconf.py to convert a tag's article count
to a CSS font-size value. For example like this:
import math
JINJA_FILTERS = {
'count_to_font_size …For several years my blog was powered by Drupal. At the time (when I studied and worked in academia) I was an active Drupal developer, so that was a logical choice, and Drupal served me well.
When occupation and family situation changed however, my Drupal interest and involvement slowly decreased …