Add action

Author: shaunagm

.github/workflows/publish.yml

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+# Sample workflow for building and deploying a Pelican site to Github Pages
+name: Deploy Pelican site with Github Pages
+
+on:
+  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
+  push:
+    branches: ["main"]
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
+# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
+# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
+concurrency:
+  group: "pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+
+  # Build job
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # default steps using existing action templates
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Pages
+        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
+      # our custom build process
+      - name: install pelican
+        run: pip install pelican
+      - name: generate site into output folder
+        run: pelican content -o output -s publishconf.py
+      # default step to upload results but with our customization that we're uploading from output folder
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: 'output'
+
+  # Deployment job
+  deploy:
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    steps:
+      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4