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Pelican is an open source static site generator written in Python
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Pros
Pro Open source
All code is available on GitHub.
Pro Active community
Pro Multilingual
Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
Pro Content can be written in multiple formats
Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
Pro Code syntax highlighting
Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
Pro Customisable Themes and support for Plugins
Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
Pro Import your existing blog from many sources
Pro Support for unique templates per page
Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
Pro Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine
Uses Jinja.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con A little bit slower than some of its competitors
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