makesite
Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator for Python coders (by sunainapai)
Pelican
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python. (by getpelican)
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| makesite | Pelican | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 23 | |
| 1,740 | 11,888 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 0.0 | 7.8 | |
| 9 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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.
makesite
Posts with mentions or reviews of makesite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-14.
- Basic blog based on static markdown files?
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Simplicity of IRC
Thank you for sharing the link to the source code. My simple site generator is based on my wife's project makesite.py[1]. In fact, I used her site generator for a few years before I went all in on Common Lisp for my personal projects. Then I reimplemented makesite.py in Common Lisp.
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A good replacement for Drupal that is docker friendly?
I ended up using the developer-focused https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite , but I heard Hugo and Jekyll have plenty of themes that I assume can be dropped in. Good luck!
- Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
- Looking for a Ghost alternative
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 2023-10-18.
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How To Choose the Best Static Site Generator and Deploy it to Kinsta for Free
Pelican is a preferred option for Python developers.
- Why isn’t there a python version of Jekyll / Hugo
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How to host final project (flask web application) on permanent server?
There's also Pelican but I haven't used it and seeing as Github serves static pages I'd imagine it builds and deploys your page and is done with it.
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Ask HN: Which Python or Rust-based static site generators to use as of 2023?
I use Pelican (https://getpelican.com/) for my blog, which works decently for me. It is a static site generator written in Python.
But you probably won't learn much Python by using it (or Rust when using a generator written in it) since you probably won't need to change anything in it.
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Creating a Python Wiki application
Surely a "local private wiki ... not web based ... on a desktop application" is not really a "wiki" at all, but rather a "static site generator" with a built-in "search". If that's what you want, there's a Python app called Pelican. Writing such an app from scratch isn't really a beginners project.
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Top ten popular static site generators (SSG) in 2023
Pelican — best for Python developers
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Trying to work around a Jekyll site-building tutorial without using Jekyll
You can - you'd basically just create a python script that parses your HTML/CSS files and replaces strings with values from your YAML. However I wouldn't recommend that unless you're just using this as an opportunity to learn Python. If you want to standup a real site and you want to use python, I'd recommend a Python static site generator like Pelican or Nikola.
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Help me find a suitable static site generator
As you're familiar with Python, how about https://getpelican.com?
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Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability
My own blog and portfolio site is hosted on github pages. Since I'm knowledgeable with web development, I use a static site generator, it's a software which generates your site pages for you on the fly based on pre-determined html/css structure and markdown posts. The setup exists in a single folder and all you have to do is push the generated html files to a github repo and the content becomes live on site! It's 100% static and hence 100% free, no PHP scripting or apache or whatsoever. Jekyll and Pelican are the most popular static site generators if you wish to go that route.
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The flying start of your blog with Pelican and Github Pages
Pelican (anagram of the word calepin which means notebook in French) is what is called a Static Site Generator (SSG).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing makesite and Pelican you can also consider the following projects:
Lektor - The lektor static file content management system
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Hyde - A Python Static Website Generator
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Cactus - Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
Tinkerer - Python blogging engine
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
winter - Free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.
Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.