Refactoring base template for easier implementation about pelican-bootstrap3

[goanpeca]

Thanks for the reply...

Menu

Since I am using only MENU_ITEMS for the menu entries... this is what I did so far to get the active menu generation working.

        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse navbar-ex1-collapse">
            <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
                {% for title, link in MENUITEMS %}
                    {% set stripped_link = link|replace('/', '', 1)%}
                    {% if stripped_link in output_file %}
                        {% set link_state = 'class="active"' %}
                    {% else %}
                        {% set link_state = '' %}
                    {% endif %}
                    <li {{link_state}}><a href="{{ link }}">{{ title }}</a></li>
                {% endfor %}
                {% if DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU %}
                    {% for p in PAGES %}
                         <li{% if p == page %} class="active"{% endif %}><a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ p.url }}">
                             {{ p.menulabel|default(p.title) }}
                          </a></li>
                      {% endfor %}
                {% endif %}

This assumed that the menu_label and slug was defined in the page, like:
menulabel: Features
slug: features

Maybe you can use as inspiration for a better solution ;)

Base templates

For this the changes I made a second template called base_sidebar.html (that inherits from base.html), so that the base.html had an empty content block, not enforcing the sidebar. So you could inherit from base and have an empty block to go nuts with bootstrap (maybe using html directly instead of mk or rst) or or you can inherit from base_sidebar and it would work as it is now.

I think it would be nice to have both options for users so on top of this I also created a page_2.html template that has no sidebar on it, so you can choose the template to use for non blog pages... page with sidebar... or page_2 without.

Cheers!

[DonDebonair]

Thanks for your interest in this theme! I feel honoured that you are considering using this theme for Spyder :) Thanks as well for all your thoughts and ideas. I will leave this issue open and look at your ideas in more detail in the coming weeks.

The menu active problem is something that was already on my todo-list, so I'll definitely be working on that. For the rest, feel free to contribute Pull Requests if you want. Otherwise, as said, I will take on these issues myself at some point :)

[DonDebonair]

Hi!

First of all, thanks for your interest in this theme! It's with heavy heart that I have decided that I can no longer maintain this theme due to lack of time and changing interests. To makes sure the theme lives on however and not goes to waste, I've donated it to the Pelican community. It can now be found in the official pelican-themes repository. I'd suggest you re-submit your issue there.

Sorry for the inconvenience!