As noted in the Pelican 3.7 release notes, RSS feeds now provide summaries by default, so this plugin is no longer relevant and will eventually be removed from this repository.
This plugin allows article summaries to be used in ATOM and RSS feeds instead of the entire article. It uses the
built-in pelican Summary: metadata.
The summary of an article can either be set explicitly with the Summary: metadata attribute as described in the
Pelican documentation (Writing content > File metadata section),
or automatically generated using the number of words specified in the
SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH setting.
To use this plugin, ensure the following are set in your pelicanconf.py file:
PLUGIN_PATH = '/path/to/pelican-plugins'
PLUGINS = [
'feed_summary',
]
FEED_USE_SUMMARY = True
The default value of FEED_USE_SUMMARY is False, so it must be set to True to enable the plugin, even if it is loaded.
This plugin is written for pelican 3.3 and later.
This plugin derives FeedSummaryWriter from the Writer class, duplicating code of the Writer._add_item_to_the_feed method.
When the initialized signal is sent, it alternates the get_writer method of the Pelican object to use FeedSummaryWriter instead of Writer.
A little hackish, but currently this can't be done otherwise via the regular plugin methods.
- Initial Code (PR #36): Michelle L. Gill michelle.lynn.gill@gmail.com
- Resumption of PR and Maintainer: Florian Jacob ( projects[PLUS]pelican[ÄT]florianjacob.de )