/nikola

A static website and blog generator

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Nikola, a Static Site and Blog Generator

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

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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.

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 or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
  • Easy image galleries </galleries/demo/>_ (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.

Installation Instructions

Assuming you have pip installed::

git clone git://github.com/ralsina/nikola.git
cd nikola
pip install .

Optionally (for markdown and lots of other features):

pip install -r requirements.txt

For more information, see http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar