When comparing Postach.io vs Pelican, the Slant community recommends Pelican for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Pelican is ranked 3rd while Postach.io is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Pelican is:
All code is available on GitHub.
Specs
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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Markdown support
You can write using Markdown syntax on Postach.io.
Pro Good themes
Well-designed themes, more than you would expect for a lightweight solution.
Pro 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.
Pro Customizable themes
You can change the look and layout of your blog.
Pro Custom domain support
Postachio.io allows for using your own custom domain.
Pro Multimedia support
Any media file you can use in Evernote, such as images, audio, video can be used in Postach.io.
Pro Comments system
People can leave comments on your blog via the Disqus comments system.
Pro RSS feeds
People can subscribe to your blog using RSS feeds.
Pro Open source
All code is available on GitHub.
Pro Active community
Pro Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine
Uses Jinja.
Pro Code syntax highlighting
Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
Pro Support for unique templates per page
Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
Pro Content can be written in multiple formats
Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
Pro Import your existing blog from many sources
Pro Customisable Themes and support for Plugins
Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
Pro Multilingual
Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
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 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.