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Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by manojlds » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:32 AM UTC

I hope 2018 here means cool and new solution that's different from previous ones in many ways - GatsbyJS

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by provost » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:32 AM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #5

This is likely to be an unpopular answer, but the best choice is probably WordPress. I just used it to generate a network of about 40 static sites because (1) it has literally thousands of beautiful, professionally-developed themes for free; (2) same goes for plugins; (3) it's easy to hack if need be; and (4) it probably has one of the easiest-to-use and most-complete content editors, capable of creating both pages a…

What’s your recommended method to make WP static? Have any of the other plugins broken for you from making WP static?

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by luch » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:33 AM UTC

I used Github Pages which are Jekyll sites hosted by Github, which is sufficient for my needs and has a wealth of online documentation.

If it's for blogging, you can also take a look at Blogger, half the programming & security blogs I follow are on it.

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by apm84 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:33 AM UTC

Pelican (python) and Hugo were the ones I looked at before I decided to write my own toy SSG (python) for the heck of it. If you’re looking for something simple that you can build on, with support for Markdown, Jinja2 and static pages, take a look at https://github.com/amithmathew/pyjello If somebody wants to contribute, I’m happy to accept pull requests.

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by yx1111 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC

Sphinx.

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC

What counts as "good enough" is such a subjective thing. What works for you will be some function of your needs and technical proficiency. It seems as though you don't have any specific needs, so any of the popular SSGs will be good enough for you. Pick one written in a language you already know, or pick one in a language you would like to learn. Some of the first Ruby code I wrote was a Jekyll plugin that I crudely hacked together. It worked fine. Jekyll is fast enough. Otherwise, there are plenty to choose from[0].

[0]: https://www.staticgen.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by geekodour » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:36 AM UTC

I built a JavaScript static site generator last year, works good for me. It uses github issues but makes it static.

https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog

Re: Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?

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Post by maxk42 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:40 AM UTC

provost wrote: post #12

maxk42 wrote: post #5

This is likely to be an unpopular answer, but the best choice is probably WordPress. I just used it to generate a network of about 40 static sites because (1) it has literally thousands of beautiful, professionally-developed themes for free; (2) same goes for plugins; (3) it's easy to hack if need be; and (4) it probably has one of the easiest-to-use and most-complete content editors, capable of creating both pages a…

What’s your recommended method to make WP static? Have any of the other plugins broken for you from making WP static?

I think I ended up using "WP Static HTML Output" (not sure how to make the link citations here on HN, but the URL is https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/ ) because it exports to S3, which is where I was hosting the static sites.