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23 | 253 | |
12,105 | 48,129 | |
1.0% | 0.6% | |
8.9 | 8.9 | |
1 day ago | about 18 hours ago | |
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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Pelican
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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).
Jekyll
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Creating excerpts in Astro
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.
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Craft Your GitHub Profile Page in 60 Seconds with Zero Code, Absolutely Free
Jekyll
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.
Here's my personal blog, set up in 2019 on github pages (free hosting), built with Jekyll [1] which supports markdown, code snippets, tags, sections and more.
For a technical person, it does the job pretty well and almost without any maintenance effort:
- Github: https://github.com/TCGV/Blog
- Live: https://thomasvilhena.com/
In future, if you want to move from Jekyll to something else, you just have to worry about that `_posts` and `_assets` folder. They may have different naming convention but you can just config-managed it or change it to your choice. This is why I suggested owning that two yourself.
You also may not worry about FrontMatter[3] (meta in the header) and its accompanying jazz by asking Jekyll to use the plugins `jekyll-optional-front-matter` and `jekyll-titles-from-headings`. These comes as part of the officially supported Jekyll plugins[4] by Github. That way, you are just writing a human-readable plain-text spiced up with Markdown and readable by almost every other Static Site Generator.
Now, play with the `_config.yml` that Jekyll generates for you from the theme above to define your post dates, navigation, and others. Jekyll is one of the OGs — the Gandalf of Static Site Generators. If you have a problem, someone somewhere has solved that.
Did I missed something? I was supposed to write a blog article for my website on this one and this comment will serve as my starting bullet points.
1. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
3. https://frontmatter.codes/docs/markdown
4. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
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Where are the layouts!? And where is the site object loaded from? (Chirpy Theme)
"Using the Chirpy theme for Jekyll."
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Any FOSS to make HTML websites for self-hosting?
I would suggest looking into static site generators. Some popular examples, which are used myself are: - Hugo: https://gohugo.io/ - Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com
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How To Choose the Best Static Site Generator and Deploy it to Kinsta for Free
In terms of GitHub stars, SSGs like Next.js, Hugo, Gatsby, Docusaurus, Nuxt.js, and Jekyll top the list. Some popular SSGs even host conferences and workshops, providing resources and networking opportunities for those looking to explore more advanced topics in depth.
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How to run Jekyll on Kubernetes
I created my blog using Jekyll, a great open-source tool that can transform your markdown content into a simple, old-fashioned-but-trendy, static site. What are the advantages of this approach? The site is super-light, super-fast, super-secure and SEO-friendly. Of course, it’s not always the best solution, but for some use cases, like a simple personal blog, it’s really a good option.
What are some alternatives?
Lektor - The lektor static file content management system
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Hyde - A Python Static Website Generator
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Cactus - Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.