Awesome Jekyll
A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, plugins, guides, etc.) (by planetjekyll)
Jekyll
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby (by jekyll)
| Awesome Jekyll | Jekyll | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 279 | |
| 594 | 50,280 | |
| 0.2% | 0.4% | |
| 1.8 | 9.0 | |
| over 4 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | ||
| - | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Awesome Jekyll
Posts with mentions or reviews of Awesome Jekyll.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Awesome Jekyll yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Jekyll
Posts with mentions or reviews of Jekyll.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-01.
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I Tried 15 of the Best Documentation Tools — Here’s What Actually Works in 2025
Jekyll is one of the oldest and most established static site generators. It’s tightly integrated with GitHub Pages, making deployment super easy.
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Jekyll auto posts from YouTube feeds
I wanted to automate this boring and repetitive workflow: my idea is that every time a YouTube video is published on my channel I want to have an associated post on my personal Jekyll blog.
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Building PicoSSG: 'Just Enough Code'
The static site generator (SSG) landscape is crowded with feature-rich but increasingly complex solutions. As I looked at and used tools like lume, 11ty, lektor, or jekyll, I found myself drowning in configuration options, plugins, and middleware. What started as a simple desire to convert Markdown content into HTML had evolved into learning complex frameworks with steep learning curves.
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Why I am Migrating From Zola Back to Hugo
Jekyll
- Jekyll Github Pages Website
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How to create a blog with Quartz, GitHub, and Cloudflare
If you don't want to use Jekyll as your static site generator for GitHub Pages and you want to have a custom domain for your GitHub Pages. This post is for you!
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Blogging with Obsidian and Jekyll
Jekyll is a static site generator that transforms Markdown files into a fully functional website. Everything is generated into plain HTML, which makes it simple to deploy on platforms like GitHub Pages.
- Jekyll v4.4.0 Released
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Create a Blogging Platform With No Backend (Zero Hosting Fee)
Obviously, there are a dozen choices for generating static websites (efficiently and quickly), from the classic Jekyll to the new Next.js. And you are good to go with any of them as long as your confident with it. I choose 11ty because:
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Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll
That would be an improvement, but it still wouldn't be equivalent to what you can do with Ruby and Jekyll. For example I do [1] so I don't need to put dates in my post names, which also fixes a bug [2] I encountered but was never fixed.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68287682/660921
[2]: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/8707
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Awesome Jekyll and Jekyll you can also consider the following projects:
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby