diff --git a/.github/workflows/pelican.yml b/.github/workflows/pelican.yml
index 6ba04c3..0598c8d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pelican.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pelican.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ on:
   push:
     branches: ["master"]
   workflow_dispatch:
+defaults:
+  run:
+    working-directory: "website"
 jobs:
   deploy:
     uses: "getpelican/pelican/.github/workflows/github_pages.yml@main"
@@ -10,5 +13,3 @@ jobs:
       contents: "read"
       pages: "write"
       id-token: "write"
-    with:
-      settings: "website/publishconf.py"