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Pelican
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Open source
All code is available on GitHub.
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Theme inheritance doesn't seem to be a priority
There have been endless discussions for years but theme inheritance still doesn't seem to be a thing. You can "inherit" from the simple theme so you don't have to have all the required files in your theme, but that's as far as it goes.
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Active community
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Not as powerful as other more popular site generators
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Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine
Uses Jinja.
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A little bit slower than some of its competitors
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Code syntax highlighting
Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
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Support for unique templates per page
Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
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Content can be written in multiple formats
Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
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Import your existing blog from many sources
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Customisable Themes and support for Plugins
Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
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Multilingual
Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
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Quite fast even for sites with thousands of posts
Can spin up an build sites with thousands of articles in a matter of seconds even on very old computers.
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Language:
Python
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Jinja2
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reStructuredText, Markdown, AsciiDoc
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Gatsby JS
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No page reload when navigating
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A bit raw
You'll maybe have to tweak some JSX if you want something that's not covered by available themes.
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Based on React.js
Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.
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Live reload
Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.
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A lot of plugins
Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.
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Very active development
Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.
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Built-in code and data splitting
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Open Source
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Take content from any source
Gatsby can generate the pages with content from any sources like Drupal, Wordpress, Contentful, etc. If the source plugin is not coded for your solution, you can create it.
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A static site and a React app in one
The static pages are generated by Server Site Rendering of the React app. So you have all benefits of a static site, and all benefits of a React app, which is very powerful.
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GraphQL Data Layer
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A lot of examples
Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.
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Beautiful out-of-the-box blog starters
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Hexo
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Fast and easy to use
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Relatively large community but the majority is non-english speakers
Hexo has a relatively large following and community, especially in China. While this is certainly a positive, many developers who do not know chinese would be unable to follow all the guides and tutorials out there written by their chineses counterparts.
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Deployment is easy and fast
Hexo built sites can be easily deployed to Github pages, Heroku, Openshift (custom cartridge needs to be setup) or any other custom solution (just copy over thepublic folder). Any deployment is as simple as editing the _config.yml file and running the hexo deploycommand
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Generating a blog is pretty fast
Generating a new blog with Hexo is generally really fast. Hexo truly lives up to it's name as a simple and fast static website generator.
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Constantly updated and actively maintained
Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.
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Complete and helpful documentation
Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.
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License:
MIT
Language:
JavaScript
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Swig, EJS, Haml, Pug
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, Org-Mode
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Hugo
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Open-source and free
Code can be viewed on GitHub.
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No tutorial on how to create a theme from scratch
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Fast
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No dependencies
All other SSGs expect you to have a full toolchain setup for their language. Hugo is written in Go and distributed as an executable for unix, linux, windows and mac. Just download and run.
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Clean workflow
Create your new site, run the Hugo server, edit. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hugo stays out of the way.
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Flexible
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Good documentation
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Many themes available
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Draft mode
Allows you to see changes in real time.
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Single binary - cross platform
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Single source publishing
Can create PDFs, eBooks, RSS-Feeds, language and market specific Websites from single content folder.
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Great multipurpose development platform
We are using Hugo as the base-framework for a full blown knowledge management system, idea-management and inhouse brainstorming tool. Hugo source-code is well structures and comes with top components out of the box, that makes every solution built on this framework incredible fast and scalable accross platforms and corporate silos! Hugo - when being used as a framework is a game-changer that puts Sharepoint, Wordpress and Co. back to the shelf.
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Very active community
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Easy to add new content types, data files, and taxonomies
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Language:
Go
Template Engine:
Go html/template
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HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
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Jekyll
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GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
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It's slow for sites with a lot of posts
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Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog posts
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Little Windows support
Windows is not an officially supported platform and setting it up on Windows requires a lot more tinkering than Linux or OSX.
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Has a built in server
You can spin up a static server at localhost:4000 by running jekyll serve
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Code highlighting with pygments
Jekyll has Pygments code highlighting built in so you can create syntax highlighted code blocks on your blog.
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Excels at blogging
Jekyll pages are structured by posts, which makes it easier to build a blog.
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Decent documentation
Link to docs
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Import your existing blog from many sources
Jekyll supports importing from many dynamic blog engines: CSV Drupal 6 Drupal 7 Enki Google Reader Joomla Jrnl Marley Mephisto Movable Type Posterous RSS S9Y Textpattern Tumblr Typo WordPress WordPress.com
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Has built in watch mode
Watch mode will reconstruct the site as pages are updated which is great for testing.
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Large, active and helpful community
Thanks to it's popularity, Jekyll has a large and active community of users. This means there is plenty of learning material available for Jekyll and it's easy to find help from other users when needed.
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Customisable with data and collections
Can make sites very different from blogs but with a lot of pages by making templates using data and collections.
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License:
MIT
Language:
Ruby
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Liquid
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Ghost
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Open source
Anyone can view code of Ghost since it's under a libre/open source license.
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Commenting must be added
One needs to edit their post.hbs file and add some code from Disqus in order for commenting to be available.
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Extremely simple
It only does a few things and it does them well. Unlike WordPress, with which you can build a universe, a blog or anything in between, Ghost is simple.
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Expensive
Too expensive for what you actually get. There are other solutions that have more or less the same features at a lower cost.
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Markdown support
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code for complete flexibility.
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Poor multilingual support
Its editor does not properly support Asian characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean due to a bug in IME. It is difficult to write properly in Asian letters.
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Custom domain support
Setting up a custom domain is effortless - fill the in the form and change DNS entries. Done.
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Finding Ghost host sites can be difficult
If wanting to host elsewhere, some of the other ghost hosting sites are hard to find, and once found they vary in features and functions. There isn't a single standard of service across the board.
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Self-host & paid Ghost(Pro)-host options
You can download the source code and set it up yourself (just make sure your hosting provider supports node.js). Alternatively, you can use their Ghost(Pro) service to let them host it for you. Paid plans start at $10/mo.
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Self-hosted might be hard to setup
Requires NodeJS and NPM which both come with a lot of dependencies. Also requires editting configuration files manually.
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Official Docker image
Very easy setup with an official image from Docker. Just needs a custom config.json and you are pretty much good to go.
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Inappropriate terminology in the UI
Despite some community support of having it removed, Ghost still prominently uses the following phrase in the UI: "Display a sexy logo for your publication." This terminology can be considered exclusionary and even inappropriate in a professional environment.
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Theme marketplace
A built-in way to get and set up themes.
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Real-time preview
You can see markdown on one side of the pane and the result on the other, while writing.
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Customizable
Themes may be uploaded, as can logos and covers.
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Free hosting on Github Pages via Buster
You can host your Ghost blog for free on Github Pages if you are OK with it being turned into a static site. You can use Buster to generate a static site from Ghost that can then be hosted on Github Pages.
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Affordable hosting available
There are lots of affordable hosting plans available for Ghost blogs.
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Wintersmith
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Thin and disorganized documentation
The documentation for Wintersmith is lacking examples and clear explanations. It's also quite disorganized, making it difficult to find what you're looking for.
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Markdown support
Wintersmith has an extensive Markdown support. Default, it is rendered by Marked. However there are plugins available for others (such as Markdown-it).
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Templates
Templating engine comes with Jade plugin and many third-party plugins.
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Very flexible
Wintersmith only has a predefined directory structure, everything else can built any way you want.
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Built on node.js
Node.js is a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications.
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Nanoc
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Flexibly built
Nanoc is a good choice if you need to support a site with a more complex structure than a simple blog. Nanoc is more agnostic to the types of pages you have, and allows you to do finer tuned refinements like customizing the URL structure.
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Extensibile
Nanoc has a modular architecture which makes it easier to incorporate plugins and functionality from other projects as well as extend functionality.
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Helps you create multilingual sites
Nanoc takes multilingual sites into consideration and has features to make translations easier to implement.
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Unit testing integration
Nanoc has a check command to run tests against your site and make sure it meets requirements you define. There are built in checks to validate HTML and CSS, as well as validating internal and external links.
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Works well with compile to languages
Nanoc is friendly with different CSS and HTML preprocessors, so you can easily use SASS, LESS, HAML, Markdown and more.
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Assemble
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No dependencies on Ruby, Python... just JavaScript
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Documentation can be hard to navigate
Especially for someone new to Assemble, it can be difficult to find what you're looking for in the documentation.
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Built on node.js
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Powered by a popular template engine Handlebars
Handlebars is the default template engine for Assemble, but you can add any template any you want.
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Highly customizable
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Markdown support
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Highly extensible
Assemble can be extended with plugins/middleware, helpers and mixins.
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Nested layout support
Assemble makes it easy to work with layouts. Layouts are used to "wrap" pages with common page elements, such as a header, footer etc. You can even nest layouts!
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Use mainstream build tools Grunt or Gulp
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Metalsmith
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Flexible beyond a static site generator
Because metalsmith is at its core focused on transforming directories of files, it can be used for more than just static site generation, and could be used as a build tool, a documentation generator, or any use that requires file transformations.
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Small community
The Metalsmith community is still fairly small compared to the more popular options. This results in a lack of learning resources and difficulty finding support from experienced users. However, a slack group has recently been started.
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Designed around plugins
Everything in metalsmith is a plugin, and it is designed to make it easy to write new ones.
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Not client enabled API chaining
According to the spec on API chaining, the API request/response need to associate an API object to an corresponding controller/action/uri to be able to validate and handle the request/response and the datasets. Without that, the consuming client service cannot properly validate or relate the datasets from one to the other. Links have no relational value and the api object creates the relationship between the datasets while maintaining an api/dataset relationship with the corresponding controller/action/uri As such, the current methodology supported would not be able to be called by the client not supported by the client in a RESTFUL manner
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Chaining API
Metalsmith uses a chaining API that's consistent and simple to use: Metalsmith(__dirname) .use(markdown) .use(templates('handlebars')) .build();
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License:
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Write.as
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Protects your privacy
Works totally anonymously or you can sign up with a pen name.
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Very simple
The editor only lets you write plain text, select from a few fonts, and use Markdown for formatting. It's difficult to use Write.as for more complicated blogging or creating a full website.
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No sign up required
You can publish without ever signing up or giving out your email address.
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The writing space is very limited
The writing window is limited to only about one-fifth of the page, the rest is just blank. You can only see about three lines of text at a time. Seems like a mismanaging of space.
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Clean writing space
It's made for writing, so there aren't crazy buttons and alerts all over the place to distract you.
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License:
AGPL
Price:
$1-$25 / month
Free tier:
Yes
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Webhook
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MIT Open Source
A very flexible license to do whatever you want. Code available on GitHub.
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Requires registration
Even simple command line tools require registration.
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Friendly CMS that clients can use
Webhook has a CMS admin page that can be access on the live site. This lets your clients login and edit the site like a traditional CMS system.
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Works with Firebase
Rather than store the data in flat files, Webhook stores your data in Firebase, where it can be accessed similar to JSON from other applications.
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Flexible Content Creation
Lets you describe your own content types and their own fields easily from the admin interface.
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Multi Language Support:
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Svbtle
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Not free
It costs 6$ per month.
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Clean writing experience
Svbtle encourages you to write down ideas as soon as they come to you and flesh them out as time goes by.
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No unicode character support
Writing in other languages that require utf-8 support is not possible.
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Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
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No comments system
Svbtle has on way of leaving a comment. The only way of communicating with the author is via email or Twitter if he chooses to supply that information.
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Svbtle can provide an audience
You can get your post featured ensuring that it will be read.
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No real customization options
Accent color can be changed and that's about it.
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Kudos system
Intended for appreciating a post. Works by holding a mouse over a circle for 2 seconds, impossible to cancel.
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Markdown support
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code.
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Clean design
Svbtle has a beautiful, minimalist aesthetic - no clutter, all focus towards comfortably reading what's written.
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Custom domain support
You can choose a svbtle.com subdomain or your own domain.
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Publii
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WordPress import
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Mostly blog oriented
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Search engine form & SEO included
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Poor support community
A very poor support community, and a developer who is just way too sensitive to any feedback.
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Free and open source
WYSIWYG.
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Limited
Very limited free themes, that really are quite useless. Other themes cost quite a bit of money.
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Social media friendly (generates cards)
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Middleman
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Too much magic happens
For new users it is hard to understand what is going on and why.
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Built in minification, compression, and cache busting
Minification and compression are as easy as setting a few configuration options, and unique asset hashes are available to allow you to invalidate the cache of files that change regularly.
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A little more complicated than other static site generators
Middleman is a big piece of software, it's not simply a static blog generator. Because of all the functionality and flexibility it offers it can be a little more complex than other static site generators and a little harder to learn all of its bells and whistles.
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Support for a variety of templating languages and preprocessors
Middleman supports lots of compiled languages, such as Less, Markdown, Textile, CoffeeScript, Stylus and more.
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Extensible and flexible
Middleman has a resources page full of official and community extensions.
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External pipeline management with Webpack
Replace your Gulp, Grunt, Bower configs
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Embraces Rails conventions
Middleman follows established conventions so if you know rails, you can easily pick up middleman.
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Easy deployment options
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JBake
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Server included
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
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Runs on the JVM
JVM is a double-edged sword (startup time, memory usage, CPU overhead, ...) which might be considered overkill for a static site generator.
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Blog Aware
RSS feed, archive and tag support. Posts/Topics are a first-class citizen in jbake.
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Runs on / Control from the JVM
The site generator is just a specific usage of the JBake Java API. As such, jbake is easily integrated into other JVM software.
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Typical inputs
Markdown, asciidoc, plain HTML is supported
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Open Source (MIT License)
boosts permissive MIT License.
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Java
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Freemarker, Groovy, Thymeleaf, Jade
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Postach.io
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Blog using Evernote
Use your Evernote app notes as content for your blog. Just add a "published" tag to your note and you're done.
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Markdown support
You can write using Markdown syntax on Postach.io.
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Good themes
Well-designed themes, more than you would expect for a lightweight solution.
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Familiar to Evernote users
It's based on a tool you probably already know well and use a lot. No need to go anywhere else.
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Customizable themes
You can change the look and layout of your blog.
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Custom domain support
Postachio.io allows for using your own custom domain.
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Multimedia support
Any media file you can use in Evernote, such as images, audio, video can be used in Postach.io.
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Comments system
People can leave comments on your blog via the Disqus comments system.
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RSS feeds
People can subscribe to your blog using RSS feeds.
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Grav CMS
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Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
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Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
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Silvrback
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Image headers have a very awkward size
Lots of time wasted on finding something suitable.
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Excellent blog layout
There is no clutter and it's easy to read.
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No Two Factor authentication
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Real-time post preview feature
You can view your end-result right as you're writing.
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No free or ad-supported option
Annual or monthly subscription only.
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Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your articles.
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Great user interface
It is intuitive, does not get in the way of writing or reading.
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Custom favicon support
Favicon is the icon in the address bar next to the URL. Most places with a subdomain only allow their own icon. Silvrback allows you your own.
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Supports custom domains
You can set up and use your own domain name.
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Octopress
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Not Actively Developed
Last commit is Feb 22, 2016, Social media hasn't been updated. Dead project?
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Very easy to use
Octopress is designed to remove all the time-consuming and frustrating tasks you usually have to deal with when using Jekyll. You don't have to write your own HTML templates or do any configuration to get started. The default template also takes care of any basic CSS/JS you need to write to get going.
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Inefficient
Adding a new post, for example, causes the entire blog to be regenerated.
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Lots of plugins (from Jekyll + 3rd party)
Another advantage of being based on Jekyll is default access to the extensive plugin system for Jekyll. There are also plugins developed specifically for Octopress.
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Some plugins have hard-coded values
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Based on Jekyll
As Octopress is simply a framework on top of Jekyll, it benefits from being based on one of the most popular site generators available. The primary benefit is that it is backed by git and is built in such a way that the site can be easily re-generated if the content changes.
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Not as flexible as Jekyll
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Uses Markdown for writing
Uses the Markdown syntax for writing blogs.
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Code and data are intertwined
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