Nikola

Nikola

Nikola is a Static Site and Blog Generator

In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

Why Static Websites?

Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in. You can read more about this in the Nikola Handbook. or see what people are saying about Nikola right now.

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What Can Nikola Do?

It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

  • Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc.
  • Themable
  • Fast builds, thanks to doit
  • Flexible, extensible via plugins
  • Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
  • reStructuredText [Cheatsheet] or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
  • Easy image galleries (just drop files in a folder!)
  • Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
  • Multilingual sites, translated to 13 languages.
  • Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
  • Python 2 and 3 compatible.
  • Is it a good idea to try github master today?