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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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JavaScript
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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
Markup Languages:
HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
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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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Nikola
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HTML input
Nikola posts may be written in a variety of formats. You can write posts in HTML, with all the expressive power of HTML and CSS, and still have the benefits of a site-wide theme and navigation structure.
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Host on any web server
Nikloa sites are static files, and thus may be hosted on any web server that allows you to upload your own files. This lets you use simple and inexpensive hosting providers and still have a reliable site.
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Write in reStructuredText and Markdown
You have better choices for markup than raw HTML.
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Free open-source software (MIT license)
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License:
MIT
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free
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Language:
Python 3
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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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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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Scripting language:
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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
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$1-$25 / month
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Yes
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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
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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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License:
MIT
Language:
JavaScript
Template Engine:
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Harp
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Compiles assets on request
Rather than regenerate the whole site when a file changes, Harp only reloads what is necessary, keeping the compile time fast.
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Limited extensibility
There are no plugins available to extend the functionality or language support of Harp.
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Supports popular languages
Harp supports a large variety of languages, including Jade, CoffeeScript, Stylus and Sass. See the full list here.
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DocPad
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Built on Node
DocPad is published as an NPM module which makes it easy to integrate with an existing Node.js deployment.
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Support for Handlebars templates is not mature - integration is awkward
Handlebars' philosophy of "no logic in templates" makes some things difficult: DocPad built-in template helpers aren't available by default - they have to be manually added/exposed DocPad's example template code often includes logic, which makes it impossible to use within Handlebars templates -- it has to be abstracted into custom helper functions. Can't pass objects to function calls from within HB templates.
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Has an active plug-in ecosystem
DocPad's has a large amount of plug-ins available to extend its functionality and compatibility with other language preprocessors and markup languages. Javascript preprocessors include: Coffescript, TypeScript, and LiveScript. CSS preprocessors include: LESS, SASS, Stylus, and Roole HTML markups include: Markdown, and Textile Templating engines include: Eco, Handlebars, Moustache, HAML, CoffeeKup, Jade, and Teacup JSON converters include: YAML and CSON
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More up-front investment to learn/use well
DocPad provides a LOT of extensibility and dynamic capability, which means there's more up-front investment to learn DocPad well -- and deviating from the defaults while maintaining project robustness may be difficult.
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Has Live Reload
DocPad has a Live Reload plug-in that leverages websockets to automatically update the blog content for users live on the site.
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Written in CoffeeScript (which could be a Pro depending on your preference)
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Built on top of the Express framework
Although DocPad is a static site generator, if you find the need to, you can extend the site with the Express framework for dynamic content as well.
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Code samples in Documentation and any online Q&As are in CoffeeScript only (no JavaScript samples available)
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Has graphical admin interfaces for managing your blog
There are multiple custom interfaces, including miniCMS available to DocPad which provide WYSIWYG editing and article management.
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The default template engine (Eco) only supports CoffeeScript, not JavaScript
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Easy to deploy
Deployment plug-ins make deploying to hosting providers even easier, with plug-ins for GitHub Pages, AWS, and Google Storage.
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The default template engine (Eco) does not support multi-line code tags
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MIT-licensed
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Prebuilt Skeletons
Skeletons are boilerplate setups to provide a baseline structure for you to fill content into.
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Document and file querying with Query Engine
DocPad leverages Query Engine to provide a query API for querying files.
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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
Template Engine:
Jinja2
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reStructuredText, Markdown, AsciiDoc
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Medium
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Clean, beautiful pages
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
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Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
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Excellent readability
There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.
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Not self-hostable
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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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Cannot customise domain address
From April 2018, Medium has removed the ability to set a customised domain on new accounts.
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Clean writing experience
Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
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Proprietary
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Great inbound channels to acquire bigger audiences quickly
Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.
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Limited customization options
In order to create a dead simple way to use the service, possibility to customize your blog was sacrificed. Medium publications, however, do allow a limited amount of customization.
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Unintrusive yet powerful community interaction
Allows for finding new, related content.
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Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment system
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Great post editor
A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.
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Freemium philosophy
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Bookmarking
Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.
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Export is limited
The only export option is HTML. If you want to migrate away from Medium for some reason, it might be very difficult to do so.
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Paragraph based commenting
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
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Recommendation system
Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.
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Photo upload and display is aesthetically pleasing
If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.
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Built-in analytics
Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.
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Collaborative if you want it to be
You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.
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Google Analytics support
They can enable this for you upon request.
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Excellent Post editor
With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.
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Grav
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Can be hosted with any provider
Since Grav is built with PHP, it can be hosted on almost all web hosting providers. If the provider supports Wordpress, they also support Grav.
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Easy creation of templates and content
Supports Twig for templating with Parsedown for fast Markdown and Markdown Extra support.
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Easy to use admin panel
Well designed, easily usable and modern admin panel is a boost as it lets Clients edit the content easily.
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Custom fields for content
YAML-based page headers allow you easily add custom dynamic fields to your content.
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Open-source and free
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Extensive Documentation
Documentation is not an afterthought! Grav has a dedicated documentation site plus loads of tutorials and guides.
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Extensive documentation
Documentation is not an afterthought. Grav has a dedicated documentation site plus loads of tutorials and guides.
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Built-in package manager
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CLI Tools
Command line tools such as dependency installation, cache clearing, user creation, and backups.
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License:
MIT
Languages:
PHP
Multi Language Support:
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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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WordPress
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Complete control if needed
If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit.
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A bit of bloat and complexity
WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such it's not as lightweight as it used to be. It also considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions.
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Widely used
According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options.
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Dated
The code is a mess, uses dated conventions, and relies on dated technology.
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Self-host & WP-host options
For free WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of wordpress.com. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting.
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Open source
Anyone can view the code of WordPress since it's under a libre/open source license.
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RSS feeds for everything
Including tags and categories.
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Post-level privacy controls
Each post can have a different access level.
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GPLv2
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PHP
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PHP
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Squarespace
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Dependent on a third-party host
This is dependent on a third-party host, instead of creating a site that you can deploy on your own server.
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Easy to customize & update
Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.
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Responsive templates
Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.
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Lots of flexibility
Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.
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Extensive styling options
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Detailed real-time metrics
Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.
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Attention to detail
Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.
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Lots of good example projects
Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.
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Great support
Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.
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Blogger
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No ads
You can turn on ads if you want, but you can also keep your Blogger blog ad-free. That is different from WordPress.com (free hosted WordPress) where there are ads, and you cannot do anything about it.
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Bad post editor
It is a WYSIWYG html editor, and it would be a bit better if it used <p> tags. Instead it uses divs and brs everywhere, which leads to inconsistent or just crappy typography and spacing.
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Free
hosted by google
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Limited authorization system
Sadly the authorization system is fairly limited. Co authors can post and publish, without you getting a chance to pre-check their posts as an admin. e.g. you can't give them "create" and not give them "publish" permissions. They can only edit their own posts however.
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Javascript friendly
You can include Javascript snippets and widgets (like Pinterest widgets for example) in posts and in sidebar items. This makes it very different from WordPress.com (free hosted WordPress) which does not allow javascript plugins.
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Can be very slow
Loading times can be huge - results may vary on your use of template, but even a fairly lightweight template can load quite slow.
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Every Google account has one
If you have a Google account from any other of their services, such as Gmail, Youtube or Google+, you automatically have a Blogger account as well.
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Not fully HTML4 or 5 compliant
And impossible to get it perfectly accepted by the W3C verifier no matter how much you tinker.
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Supports multiple authors
Multiple people can contribute to a single blog.
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Custom domain support
You can use either your own URL or a *.blogspot.com URL.
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API
The Blogger API allows you to publish and manage your content via a custom client app
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Allows custom advertisements
Such as project wonderful, or just google adsense,. so you can make money from your blog.
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Android and iOS mobile apps
Allows viewing and editing content from your mobile device.
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Analytics integration
There's very basic analytics, but you can upgrade if needed.
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Webhook
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4
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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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7
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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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