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Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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I tried Octopress, but didn't like the default theme/layout — I wanted to design my own theme, and was hoping to build up a site from scratch, not rip out what was already there. After considering a bunch of Python-based SSGs which didn't impress me for various reasons, I went with Jekyll and have been quite happy. One feature on my todo list is to find a way to add infinite scrolling (this is 2012, I don't think blo…

What Python-based SSGs?

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Pelican http://getpelican.com/&#62 ; is a Python-based static site generator with a very active community behind it. It has a good mix of features without being overly complicated. Check it out! (Disclaimer: I'm a Pelican project committer.)

I just moved to Pelican, and am liking it so far, except for one thing: the lack of mobile support. The theme I'm using, tuxlite, looks great in a browser; but on smartphones, it's squint city. I'd love it if Pelican automagically generated a mobile-friendly version of the site, which could then be used by some Rewrite rules based on the browser.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just started using Hakyll and it's really awesome. It's very configurable, and integrating with Pandoc makes it very versatile. Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard. I have a fairly complicated setup at the moment, and yet it still has less than 100 lines of configuration. Also, being in Haskell, I've found it pretty fast so far despite being writ…

> I'm short, Hakyll is awesome. A good solution for the vertically challenged. :)

Ah yes, phone typos strike again. You'd think I would have learned to proof-read my posts by now...

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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post #77

I tried Octopress, but didn't like the default theme/layout — I wanted to design my own theme, and was hoping to build up a site from scratch, not rip out what was already there. After considering a bunch of Python-based SSGs which didn't impress me for various reasons, I went with Jekyll and have been quite happy. One feature on my todo list is to find a way to add infinite scrolling (this is 2012, I don't think blo…

What Python-based SSGs?

I looked at Hyde, Cactus and Pelican, but confess I can't recall what I didn't like about the first two. Nothing seems obviously wrong with them. Maybe they looked unmaintained or not as mature as Jekyll, although Cactus has a bunch of recent commits so that doesn't seem right. With Pelican I was scared off when I saw the license (Affero GPL, which forces you to provide source if you use the code on a live site, or something like that).

Sorry this isn't a more useful comparison. I wanted to find a good-enough SSG quickly, so my search was pretty shallow.

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