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 3.4+ compatible.
.. _Nikola Handbook: https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#why-static
__ https://users.getnikola.com/
.. _Themable: https://themes.getnikola.com
.. _doit: http://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::
pip install Nikola
For optional features::
pip install "Nikola[extras]"
For tests::
pip install "Nikola[extras,tests]"
For more information, see https://getnikola.com/
