Changing the Pelican theme to Flex

In a previous post I explained how to use Pelican with GitHub pages but didn't explain how to change the theme. I've changed it now to use Flex and it was harder than expected.

Most of the guides I've found talked about cloning pelican-themes in a folder on your system and changing the variable THEME to that folder. However, that doesn't work when you are using GitHub actions to build your site because it won't find that folder.

My solution was cloning the theme I wanted, Flex, to a folder inside the root folder of the blog:

git clone https://github.com/alexandrevicenzi/Flex

Then I set in pelicanconf.py the variable THEME as follows:

THEME = 'Flex'

In order to make it work with GitHub actions, I had to add in the file publi.sh, before calling pelican, this line:

git clone https://github.com/alexandrevicenzi/Flex

After commiting and pushing, it worked.