Minify: A Plugin for Pelican

This Pelican plugin can compress HTML & CSS files as well as inline CSS and JavaScript in HTML files.

Requirements

Because this plugin depends on the minify-html Python package, which in turn utilizes the Rust-based minify-html project, you must have Cargo (the Rust package manager) installed and available on your PATH. Rust and Cargo can be installed on Mac systems via Homebrew:

brew install rust

Alternatively, Rust and Cargo can be installed via your particular system’s package manager or via: https://rustup.rs/

Installation

This plugin can be installed via:

python -m pip install pelican-minify

As long as you have not explicitly added a PLUGINS setting to your Pelican settings file, then the newly-installed plugin should be automatically detected and enabled. Otherwise, you must add minify to your existing PLUGINS list. For more information, please see the How to Use Plugins documentation.

Usage

By default, all HTML and CSS files will be compressed, including inline JavaScript and CSS rules in <script> and <style> tags.

To configure the behavior of the plugin, add the following variables in your Pelican settings file (values shown here are the default values):

CSS_MIN = True
HTML_MIN = True
INLINE_CSS_MIN = True
INLINE_JS_MIN = True

Please note that INLINE_CSS_MIN and INLINE_JS_MIN require that HTML_MIN be enabled.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and much appreciated. Every little bit helps. You can contribute by improving the documentation, adding missing features, and fixing bugs. You can also help out by reviewing and commenting on existing issues.

To start contributing to this plugin, review the Contributing to Pelican documentation, beginning with the Contributing Code section.

License