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New? I don't know.
I use jekyll (ruby) for my blog (not my advice site). I was happy with pelican (python) when I used it - just happened to find a jekyll template I liked better.
tumblr dot com
I'll have to check those out. However...
I think there's a big difference between true static and "semi-static". With a true static generator, I don't even need to load php on the box.
I imagine it is very fast, but how much does that matter? How many thousands of pages would you need before the difference between python/perl/ruby/etc. and Go is going to be slow enough to notice?
+1 for Jekyll.
Fast, lot's of plugins and easy to deploy. You can use markdown, heml, erb templates, etc.
I use
wintersmith.io
Thanks, Pico looks interesting, and also Blug looks very simple and usable which is kind of what I am looking for. Hugo I had seen before..
You can use wget to get static HTMLs out of everything (afaik). Just use wget like here http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-site-wget tested it a bit and worked fine.
I use sculpin.io - it works great
Thanks for the link. While that is interesting, that's not quite the gist of this thread..
Ghost is the new hotness in blogging. Pelican mentioned above is, I believe, the most full-featured static blog generator.
Buster
is a static site generator for Ghost blogs (install guide):https://github.com/axitkhurana/buster
Personally I just use "wget" for this:
Yellow looks nice and simple as well:
https://github.com/datenstrom/yellow/wiki/How-to-make-a-blog
It's intended to be used directly on the server which I prefer.
@twain But it is a way to generate static sites, isnt it?
It depends on what features you want. Pico is very easy to theme, though at the moment there are only a handful of plugins. Good if you want something up fast, no messing with databases. For specific unsupported features you're most likely on your own, though if you already know some php it's not hard to hook some script to it. About the same for Monstra (flat file but not really a static generator, with a login).
Somewhat like Pico in terms of simple to get started, Felix Felicis is a Python generator.
Trend-wise, I'm seeing a lot of Ghost and Jekyll sites lately.
Right, however I'm going for actually generating/creating/updating sites/pages that don't already exist.
Github also offers hosting your blog with Jekyll directly from Github.
Anyone try http://getgrav.org/ ? I've read an article on WebAppers about it.
I tried Grav and it's working just fine. They're developing an admin panel atm, looking quite promising. I'm gonna give it a try for some client sites as soon as they release it.
Nearly forgot Nikola (Python-based, good documentation)
Thanks for the feedback. A lot of cool stuff I hadn't heard of in these suggestions.
spress and nestacms also look good. These have direct support to deploy to Openshift, which is excellent, as Openshift rocks (and has a great free tier).
Not sure its what your looking for, but we use Cute News for our blog. It seems to work rather well despite the slightly dated design and is very lightweight.
Cute news wow yeah that's been around forever! Very nice little script that fits a lot of use cases where others fail.
Yeah, for something just really simple (and thats really all we needed) it works great, its not the most elegant looking, but as I say we integrate it into our site so it doesn't make a big difference for us.