# Pelican Integration

# Create new Pelican site

Installing Python:

$ python -m pip install "pelican[markdown]"

Create a quickstart Pelican site by running the following commands:

$ mkdir -p ~/projects/yoursite
$ cd ~/projects/yoursite
$ pelican-quickstart

Generate and preview your Pelican site

$ pelican content
$ pelican --listen

Pelican will start a hot-reloading development environment that is accessible by default at http://localhost:8000/.

# Add a Contact Section to your Pelican site

Give your new page the attributes you want, of which title is the only thing that is required:

Title: Contact
Slug: contact
Lang: en

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="https://getform.io/{your-form-endpoint}" method="POST">
    <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your Email">
    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your Name">
    <input type="text" name="message" placeholder="Your Message">
    <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Your file will initially be available in your output folder as contact.html. However, in your pelicanconf.py you can set the URLs of pages with the following settings:

PAGE_URL = '{slug}/'
PAGE_SAVE_AS = '{slug}/index.html'

For more information on writing Pelican pages, you can check out the Pelican docs (opens new window).

# Run your Pelican site locally to finalize setup

Run the following command to see your Pelican form in action at localhost:8000/contact/:

$ pelican content
$ pelican -listen

That's it! Your Pelican site is now running Getform.

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