base.html improvements

- only show social buttons if URLs are defined
- new CSS_OVERRIDE setting for user defined CSS
- new DISABLE_CUSTOM_THEME_JAVASCRIPT setting to disable theme
JavaScript which breaks forms and input fields

README.md

@@ -46,6 +46,20 @@ To customize, define ``COLOR_SCHEME_CSS`` in ``pelicanconf.py`` with css filenam
 COLOR_SCHEME_CSS = 'monokai.css'
 ```
 
+### User defined CSS
+
+Define ``CSS_OVERRIDE`` in ``pelicanconf.py`` to insert a user defined CSS file
+after theme CSS. Example:
+
+```python
+CSS_OVERRIDE = 'myblog.css'
+```
+
+### Disable theme JavaScript
+
+Set ``DISABLE_CUSTOM_THEME_JAVASCRIPT`` to True if you want to disable
+``js/clean-blog.min.js`` in case it affects forms and input fields.
+
 ### Analytics
 
 Accept many analytics:

templates/base.html

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
             <link href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ THEME_STATIC_DIR }}/css/code_blocks/darkly.css" rel="stylesheet">
         {% endif %}
 
+        {% if CSS_OVERRIDE %}
+            <!-- CSS specified by the user -->
+            <link href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ CSS_OVERRIDE }}" rel="stylesheet">
+        {% endif %}
+
         <!-- Custom Fonts -->
         <link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
         <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400,700,400italic,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
@@ -128,6 +133,7 @@
             <div class="row">
                 <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1">
                     <ul class="list-inline text-center">
+                    {% if TWITTER_URL %}
                         <li>
                             <a href="{{ TWITTER_URL }}">
                                 <span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
@@ -136,6 +142,8 @@
                                 </span>
                             </a>
                         </li>
+                    {% endif %}
+                    {% if FACEBOOK_URL %}
                         <li>
                             <a href="{{ FACEBOOK_URL }}">
                                 <span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
@@ -144,6 +152,8 @@
                                 </span>
                             </a>
                         </li>
+                    {% endif %}
+                    {% if GITHUB_URL %}
                         <li>
                             <a href="{{ GITHUB_URL }}">
                                 <span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
@@ -152,6 +162,7 @@
                                 </span>
                             </a>
                         </li>
+                    {% endif %}
                     </ul>
                     <p class="copyright text-muted">Blog powered by <a href="http://getpelican.com">Pelican</a>,
                 which takes great advantage of <a href="http://python.org">Python</a>.</p>
@@ -166,8 +177,10 @@
     <!-- Bootstrap Core JavaScript -->
     <script src="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ THEME_STATIC_DIR }}/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
 
-    <!-- Custom Theme JavaScript -->
-    <script src="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ THEME_STATIC_DIR }}/js/clean-blog.min.js"></script>
+    {% if not DISABLE_CUSTOM_THEME_JAVASCRIPT %}
+        <!-- Custom Theme JavaScript -->
+        <script src="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ THEME_STATIC_DIR }}/js/clean-blog.min.js"></script>
+    {% endif %}
 
     {% include 'analytics.html' %}
     {% include 'disqus_script.html' %}