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Pelican

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Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Self-Hosted
  • Python
4.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
24 likes
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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes
  2.  User friendly

Features

  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Self-deployment
  3.  Static Site Generator
  4.  Mobile friendly
  5.  ReStructuredText
  6.  Publishing
  7.  AsciiDoc
  8.  Plugin API

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Pelican information

  • Developed by

    Justin Mayer
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7
  • Alternatives

    75 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

DevelopmentSocial & CommunicationsPhotos & GraphicsOnline Services

GitHub repository

  •  12,763 Stars
  •  1,821 Forks
  •  74 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 1, 2025 
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Pelican, and it has gotten 24 likes

Pelican was added to AlternativeTo by impossible on Oct 8, 2013 and this page was last updated Jul 14, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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danuthaiduc
  
Top positive commentApr 5, 2019

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.

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RemovedUser
  
Positive commentMay 29, 2018

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.

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jkw
CommentMay 13, 2017

As Hyde is made for Legacy Python, Pelican is the best alternative for Python.

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pelpel
  
Positive commentNov 19, 2014

If you need a website, this is a phenomenal piece of software to use for it.

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danuthaiduc

Why have you given it 4 stars instead of 5?

Reply written Apr 5, 2019

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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

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