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/