Welcome to Pelican
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:date: 2015-11-01 00:30
:author: pelican
:tags: Getting Started
:slug: welcome-to-pelican
:disqus_identifier: /2015/11/welcome-to-pelican.html

You're live! Nice. We've put together a little post to introduce you to
the Pelican editor and get you started. You can manage your content by
signing in to the admin area at ``<your blog URL>``. When you
arrive, you can select this post from a list on the left and see a
preview of it on the right. Click the little pencil icon at the top of
the preview to edit this post and read the next section!

Getting Started
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Pelican uses something called Markdown for writing. Essentially, it's a
shorthand way to manage your post formatting as you write!

Writing in Markdown is really easy. In the left hand panel of Pelican, you
simply write as you normally would. Where appropriate, you can use
*shortcuts* to **style** your content. For example, a list:

-  Item number one
-  Item number two

   -  A nested item

-  A final item

or with numbers!

#. Remember to buy some milk
#. Drink the milk
#. Tweet that I remembered to buy the milk, and drank it

Links
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Want to link to a source? No problem. If you paste in a URL, like
https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/ - it'll automatically be linked up. But if you want to
customise your anchor text, you can do that too! Here's a link to `the
Pelican docs website <https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/>`__. Neat.

What about Images?
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Images work too! Already know the URL of the image you want to include
in your article? Simply paste it in like this to make it show up:

|Image|

Not sure which image you want to use yet? That's ok too. Leave yourself
a descriptive placeholder and keep writing. Come back later and drag and
drop the image in to upload:

Quoting
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Sometimes a link isn't enough, you want to quote someone on what they've
said. Perhaps you've started using a new blogging platform and feel the
sudden urge to share their slogan? A quote might be just the way to do
it!

    Pelican - Just a blogging platform

Working with Code
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Got a streak of geek? We've got you covered there, too. You can write
inline ``<code>`` blocks really easily with back ticks. Want to show off
something more comprehensive? 4 spaces of indentation gets you there.

.. code-block:: css

    .awesome-thing {
        display: block;
        width: 100%;
    }

Ready for a Break?
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Throw 3 or more dashes down on any new line and you've got yourself a
fancy new divider. Aw yeah.

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Advanced Usage
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There's one fantastic secret about Markdown. If you want, you can write
plain old HTML and it'll still work! Very flexible.

That should be enough to get you started. Have fun - and let us know
what you think :)

.. |Image| image:: https://getpelican.com/theme/img/logo.svg
   :target: https://getpelican.com/theme/img/logo.svg
