Pelican
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Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Python
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- User friendly
Features
- Support for MarkDown
- Self-deployment
- Mobile friendly
- ReStructuredText
- Publishing
- Static Site Generator
- Plugin API
- AsciiDoc
Tags
- static-website
Pelican News & Activities
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Recent activities
tesserato added Pelican as alternative to Dead Simple Blog Generator
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What is Pelican?
Static site generator that supports reStructuredText, Markdown, and AsciiDoc formats. Features:
- Articles (e.g., blog posts) and pages (e.g., “About”, “Projects”, “Contact”)
- Multilingual articles support
- Theming support (Jinja2 templates)
- Plugins support via a separate shared repository
- Atom/RSS feeds
- Import from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feeds
- Integrations: Disqus, Twitter, Google Analytics, etc.
- Fast rebuild thanks to content caching and selective output writing
Pelican information
Developed by
Justin Mayer Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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Development, Social & Communications, Photos & Graphics, Online ServicesGitHub repository
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- 1,823 Forks
- 87 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
Has a very easy on-boarding process, with a command-line wizard which asks you how you want to configure your site.
Has plenty of mature themes and plugins. My favorite theme is "pelican-bootstrap3".
I did not experience any bugs yet, but even if I do, modifying the software is trivial, because it is open source.
I have my own blog on Pelican and there are some cool things about it. Pelican supports reStructuredText, Markdown, and AsciiDoc, you can create multilingual articles and articles consisting of several parts. Pelican configuration is flexible and extendable via plugins, so you can easily implement the variant that is the most convenient for you and your target audience. To improve visual appearance there are lots of themes (however, no so many as in Jekyll, Hugo, or Hexo), but the good news is that themes are created using Jinja2. Pelican supports import from WordPress, DotClear, or RSS, which makes it the best static alternative to popular blogging platforms.
As Hyde is made for Legacy Python, Pelican is the best alternative for Python.
If you need a website, this is a phenomenal piece of software to use for it.
Why have you given it 4 stars instead of 5?