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Discussion on: Overview of Popular Static Site Generators

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tux0r

These are by no means the only generators out there, but they are the most commonly used ones

I would argue that Pelican has more users. Admittedly, many of them moved to Hugo for various reasons, but Pelican seems to be a decent alternative to WordPress.

I hope this overview of static page frameworks helped you realize their potential and consider using them next time you think of a new project.

I wrote my own one, thinking that "file in, file out" would not be that much of an effort... (spoiler: it is not, except if you want to have some logic in it.)

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Silvestar Bistrović

Pelican was brought to my attention on other channels. GatsbyJS is also popular these days.

Great to see the effort you invest into your own SSG.
I also wrote something that could serve as a SSG: starter.silvestarbistrovic.from.hr

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John Bokma

I also wrote my own static blog generator. However, it uses a single Markdown-ish input file, so it's file-in, files out. Most of the work got into archive and calendar views. I use it for Plurrrr, a tumbelog.