As the maintainer of the Python-based Pelican static site generator for over a decade, I can say with confidence that my experience has been nothing like what is described in this article. Most of Pelican’s code was written by other people, and yet I have spent almost zero time debugging that code, much less my own. After taking advantage of Pelican’s rich plugin ecosystem and adding a handful of useful plugins, I…

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3 months ago

Most static site generators will work to create a blog. I use pelican [1], which serves my needs. You will likely need to edit your blogposts a little bit before putting them in the book. So I recommend a separate program for that altogether. [1] https://getpelican.com/.

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4 months ago

In my experience, [Pelican](https://getpelican.com/) does a good job of allowing you to edit themes on all pages at once with its static page generator. There are a lot of built in features designed more for blog-like websites, but I’ve found it pretty easy to make my personal website with it.

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11 months ago

There’s also Pelican but I haven’t used it and seeing as Github serves static pages I’d imagine it builds and deploys your page and is done with it.

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over 1 year ago

I use Pelican (https://getpelican.com/) for my blog, which works decently for me. It is a static site generator written in Python. But you probably won’t learn much Python by using it (or Rust when using a generator written in it) since you probably won’t need to change anything in it.

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over 1 year ago

Surely a “local private wiki … Not web based … On a desktop application” is not really a “wiki” at all, but rather a “static site generator” with a built-in “search”. If that’s what you want, there’s a Python app called Pelican. Writing such an app from scratch isn’t really a beginners project.

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over 1 year ago

Pelican — best for Python developers.

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over 1 year ago

You can – you’d basically just create a python script that parses your HTML/CSS files and replaces strings with values from your YAML. However I wouldn’t recommend that unless you’re just using this as an opportunity to learn Python. If you want to standup a real site and you want to use python, I’d recommend a Python static site generator like Pelican or Nikola.

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over 1 year ago

As you’re familiar with Python, how about https://getpelican.com?

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almost 2 years ago

Alternatively, consider if you really need a backend, many sites can be deployed as a static site using something like Pelican, you can use github actions to do this all in python.

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almost 2 years ago

My own blog and portfolio site is hosted on github pages. Since I’m knowledgeable with web development, I use a static site generator, it’s a software which generates your site pages for you on the fly based on pre-determined html/css structure and markdown posts. The setup exists in a single folder and all you have to do is push the generated html files to a github repo and the content becomes live on site! It’s…

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about 2 years ago

Pelican (anagram of the word calepin which means notebook in French) is what is called a Static Site Generator (SSG).

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about 2 years ago

I know exactly what you mean by the part to have all the files locally and rsync them on the server. I use Pelican as a static site generator and my blog articles are markdown files in a git repository.

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about 2 years ago

Markdown is a great format, and I used it for all my blog posts since I started writing. Pelican, which is the static site generator that I use, supports Markdown out of the box, so it was extremely easy to start using it, and overall I had an enjoyable experience.

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about 2 years ago

Https://getpelican.com/, can’t get easier than that.

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about 2 years ago

I just switched from Ghost to Pelican (a static site generator) to create my own website.

Among the elements that convinced me to change is the portability of the data that gives you to use a static site generator and write everything in Markdown. They are simple text files and I can edit them as I please (also offline). Another great thing is that Pelican adapts according to the tags and categories I use.

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about 2 years ago

After generating some static sites using Hugo, which is written in Go, I switched to using the Pelican Static Site Generator, written in Python.

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about 2 years ago

A few others have commented about using a static site generator to build a blog. If you’re looking into develop your python skills here’s two (of many) static site generators that are written in python: Pelican: https://blog.getpelican.com/.

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over 2 years ago

Sounds to me like you would be better served by a static site generator. Check out Pelican, for example – it does what you described right out of the box: https://blog.getpelican.com/.

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over 2 years ago

I have used a few static site generators over the years including Hugo, Jekyll, and Pelican to host my personal blog. And I have experimented with a few others including Lektor and Gatsby.

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over 2 years ago

For instance, with Pelican, you can use the default stuff baked in, or you can define everything from scratch: what’s the HTML for the base, what’s the HTML for the homepage that fits inside that base, what’s the HTML for blog post listing pages themselves and what’s the HTML for each listing/card? What’s the HTML for each post page, how will it display the content such as article text, article title, and other…

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over 2 years ago