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+# ghp-pelican-demo
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+This is a demo repo for [my Pelican GitHub Pages workflow](https://github.com/seanh/gha-pelican).
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+See [Actions](https://github.com/seanh/pelican-github-pages-demo/actions) to see the Pelican build and deploy workflow in action, and see <http://www.seanh.cc/pelican-github-pages-demo/> for the deployed Pelican site.