PelicanWhat is Pelican?
Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.
Pelican is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Blog articles and pagesComments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates)PDF generation of the articles/pages (optional)Publication of articles in multiple languagesAtom/RSS feedsCode syntax highlightingImport from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feedsIntegration with external tools: Twitter, Google Analytics, etc. (optional)Fast rebuild times thanks to content caching and selective output writing.
Pelican Pros & Cons
Pros of Pelican
- ✓Open source
- ✓Jinja2
- ✓Easy to deploy
- ✓Implemented in Python
- ✓Plugability
- ✓RestructuredText and Markdown support
- ✓Can run on Github pages
- ✓Easy to customize
Cons of Pelican
No cons listed yet.
Pelican Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pelican?
Gatsby
Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
