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Frank Zafka
Frank Zafka

Reputation: 829

Call links list programatically for Pelican site

I have a Pelican blog. I want to call the external links list programmatically, rather than hard code them into the template. For example, the blog post categories are called programmatically, e.g.,

{% for category, articles in categories[0:10] %}
<li><a href="/{{ category.url }}">{{ category }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}            
</div>
<div class="l-box pure-u-1-3">

{% for category, articles in categories[11:20] %}
<li><a href="/{{ category.url }}">{{ category }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</div>
<div class="l-box pure-u-1-3">
{% for category, articles in categories[21:30] %}
<li><a href="/{{ category.url }}">{{ category }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

So to be clear, I am looking to change this code to call from a single file which lists some external weblinks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Railslide
Railslide

Reputation: 5554

Assign them to the LINKS variable in your pelicanconf.py e.g.

LINKS = (
   ('my link 1', 'http://some.link.here'),
   ('my link 2', 'http://some.other.link.here')
)

and then call them in your template with

{% for name, link in LINKS %}
    <a href="{{ link }}">{{ name }}</a>
{% endfor %}

All variable defined in your pelicanconf.py, as long as they are in all-caps, can be accessed in your templates.

See: http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/themes.html#templates-and-variables

Upvotes: 2

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