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 the dozens of
available 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_ (just drop files in a folder!) - Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
- Multilingual sites,
translated to 50 languages.__ - Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
- Python 3.10+ compatible.
.. _Nikola Handbook: https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#why-static __ https://users.getnikola.com/ .. _Themable: https://themes.getnikola.com .. _doit: https://pydoit.org .. _available plugins: https://plugins.getnikola.com/ .. _reStructuredText: https://getnikola.com/quickstart.html .. _image galleries: https://getnikola.com/galleries/demo/ __ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/nikola/
Nikola Architecture
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Installation Instructions
Assuming you have pip installed::