Replacing the Markdown Reader throws (near) endless warnings

Author: minchinwebCreated May 5, 2025Updated Sep 13, 2026

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I have read the Filing Issues and subsequent “How to Get Help” sections of the documentation.
[-] I can reproduce this problem with stock/default settings file, theme, and sample content (as described in above “How to Get Help” sections of the documentation).
- I expect this will still be an issue with the default theme, but I haven't actually tested. This only gets thrown with a plugin (a reader).
I have searched the issues (including closed ones) and believe that this is not a duplicate.

OS version and name: Windows 10
Python version: Python 3.13.3
Pelican version: Pelican 4.11.0
Link to theme: Seafoam
Links to plugins: https://github.com/minchinweb/minchin.pelican.readers.commonmark
Link to your site: n/a
Link to your source: https://github.com/minchinweb/minchin.pelican.readers.commonmark/tree/master/test
Link to a Gist with the contents of your settings file: https://github.com/minchinweb/minchin.pelican.readers.commonmark/blob/master/test/pelicanconf.py

Issue

If I replace the Markdown reader with my own, the old (disabled) Markdown reader will print a warning for every Markdown file in my content. Example output:

bash

$ pelican
[18:31:10] WARNING  Feeds generated without SITEURL set properly settings.py:679
                    may not be valid
           WARNING  [CommonMark] Don't know what to do with link  __init__.py:69
                    target "#id-goes-here".
           WARNING  .\markdown-test.md: Could not import          readers.py:698
                    'markdown.Markdown'. Have you installed the
                    'markdown' package?
           WARNING  .\tag-only-lines.md: Could not import         readers.py:698
                    'markdown.Markdown'. Have you installed the
                    'markdown' package?
           WARNING  .\no-title.md: Could not import               readers.py:698
                    'markdown.Markdown'. Have you installed the
                    'markdown' package?
           WARNING  .\frontmatter.md: Could not import            readers.py:698
                    'markdown.Markdown'. Have you installed the
                    'markdown' package?
           WARNING  .\checkbox-test.md: Could not import          readers.py:698
                    'markdown.Markdown'. Have you installed the
                    'markdown' package?
Done: Processed 5 articles, 0 drafts, 0 hidden articles, 0 pages, 0 hidden pages
and 0 draft pages in 0.92 seconds.

With thousands of source files, it gets a little crazy, and impossible to find "real" issues. Ideally, there should be a way to silence these warning as they don't apply.

Source: getpelican/pelican

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