Lektor vs Pelican

Lektor

The lektor static file content management system (by lektor)

#Static Site Generator #CMS

Source Code

getlektor.com

Pelican

Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python. (by getpelican)

#Static Site Generator #Python #Pelican

Source Code

getpelican.com

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Lektor		Pelican
	Project
5	Mentions	3
3,489	Stars	10,681
0.1%	Growth	0.6%
9.1	Activity	8.1
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Python	Language	HTML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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.

Lektor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lektor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-27.

Show HN: Kit55, a Desktop Web Builder GUI – Jekyll, Next, Wordpress Alternative
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021

This somewhat reminds me of Lektor[0], which is a sort of front-end GUI application (really just website/page in front of a locally-run web server) that allows for folks to edit and post content as a static site generator and without needing a CLI. Lektor happens to be open source and based on python. This also reminds me of MovableType! Either way, I think we need more of these types of tools; both for techs and non-techs alike! Best of luck to the Kit55 folks!
[0] = https://www.getlektor.com/
Static site generators to watch in 2021
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2021
Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2021

https://www.getlektor.com/
lektor offers some of this functionality. editing is done locally through a browser UI, but there may be a way to host the interface. deployments are easy.
TinaCMS: Tina is a toolkit for building visual editing into your site
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2021

Shameless plug: If you want a static site generator with an admin UI I can recommend Lektor (https://www.getlektor.com/). You declare your data model and templates and Lektor serves an editing UI for you. There is a good video introduction by Armin Ronacher (original author) if you prefer to digest video content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTWTCwuPdrU
Disclaimer: Occasionally I moonlight as a maintainer of Lektor.
On Hugo
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2021

Pelican

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pelican. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-18.

I built a serverless blog using Pelican, AWS CDK, S3, and Cloudfront!
3 projects | reddit.com/r/Python | 18 Jul 2021

Pelican as the static blog generator
What do you use for public publishing your Zettlekasten?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten | 9 Jul 2021

I think pelican (https://getpelican.com/) is a little bit more beginner friendly. It still requires some technical knowledge though.
Static site generators to watch in 2021
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2021

For me it was the license that made me not pick it: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1397.
A while ago I was picking a new SSG and I would have preferred something written in Python so I can hack on it more easily. I ended up moving on because of the license.
I am now very happily using Hugo.