Ask HN: What static site generator would you use?

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by rudimk • 13 years ago

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I have this Wordpress site - don't intend to start (yet another) flame war, but I'd really like to make a change. I've used Jekyll before, and lately, checked out Octopress, as well as Python-based static site tools like Hyde and Pelican.

What would you recommend?

anonfunction2• 13 years ago

I finally just got into Jekyll to build a quick lesson based website and I'm really impressed. So far my only gripe is that gh-pages doesn't allow plugins, but it's easy to generate the site locally and only push _site so not even a big deal.

rudimk2• 13 years ago

Yeah, gh-pages has that problem. On a side note, I'd probably end up deploying Jekyll(or whatever I end up using) onto Amazon.

On another note - that's unrelated - apart from Github, there's no other platform that supports hosting static site generators, is there?

anonfunction2• 13 years ago

I can totally understand why github doesn't want people running ruby on their servers.

Not that I know of.

swanson• 13 years ago

http://www.paperplane.io/ supports static hosting from Dropbox and Github.

stevekemp• 13 years ago

There's a brief review of available options here:

  https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators

In conclusion most of them rock, but so many of them have problems with symlinks. I use templer:

  https://github.com/skx/templer

Largely it will come down to whether you're building "a site", or "a blog". The two are slightly different.

alexgaribay• 13 years ago

I switched from WP to Octopress. It's pretty easy to use and manage.

Ask HN: What static site generator would you use?

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