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Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 0 stories, 21 comments · first 2012-12-01 · latest 2025-04-23

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  1. …Obsidian. https://mordenstar.com/blog/obsidian-to-pelican-exporter Pelican static site generator: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by vunderba · 2025-04-23 · in How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
  2. …compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican https://mordenstar.com Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the…
    comment by vunderba · 2024-09-21 · in Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?
  3. That's why I use Pelican as a static site generator with Github.com. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by egberts1 · 2024-07-26 · in Using GitHub as a (bad) blog platform
  4. For me it was the license that made me not pick it: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1397 . A while ago I was picking a new SSG and I would have preferred something written in Python so I can hack on it more easily. I ended up…
    comment by liyanage · 2021-06-07 · in Static site generators to watch in 2021
  5. …tend to be this way? 1 - https://github.com/morgan3d/markdeep/blob/master/1.09/markde... 2 - https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by kabacha · 2020-02-18 · in Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
  6. …Why should I bother with this instead of going with the featureful and well-tested Pelican? [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by m000 · 2019-11-24 · in Makesite.py – Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator
  7. The slow part was mostly syntax highlighting and that was at least 3 years ago. Looking at https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1326 it seems live reload as I mean it (without hard-refresh of the page) is only available through a…
    comment by Keats · 2018-09-10 · in Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
  8. Coming from Python I like Pelican a lot. It also looks like there is an active development going on: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican I am still wondering, why the last release was made over 18 month ago.
    comment by stadeschuldt · 2018-09-10 · in Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
  9. …the blog crashed and when I started a new one, I chose Pelican[1]. Haven't looked back. [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican (linking to the github repository because the main site happens to be down…
    comment by rinze · 2017-01-01 · in Why Wordpress?
  10. There's a popular static site generator called Pelican. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by kolanos · 2016-04-10 · in Pelikan: Twitter's unified cache back end
  11. …of people pass it by, simply because it still needs some help putting its best foot forward[1]. 0: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/ 1: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1065#issuecomme...
    comment by mitchtbaum · 2016-02-17 · in Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites
  12. …for static site generators take a look at: https://middlemanapp.com/ (Ruby) http://gohugo.io/ (Go) https://github.com/getpelican/pelican (Python) When you need to go beyond static sites and take a look at the web frameworks - Ruby on Rails…
    comment by robeastham · 2016-01-11 · in Ask HN: How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?
  13. Some work was done here : https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/224#issuecommen...
    comment by geekam · 2014-06-01 · in Static site generators focus on the wrong thing
  14. …a feature to skip articles that have not been touched. That makes compilation really fast. [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by geekam · 2014-05-30 · in Static site generators focus on the wrong thing
  15. Use Pelican then. It's built on Python. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by ekianjo · 2014-03-06 · in You Should Start a Blog
  16. …efforts if I build what I want. I think it would help a lot if Pelican had theme inheritance ( https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1092 ) and we all reused a common PureCSS base-theme. This is probably an easy issue to tackle for…
    comment by mitchtbaum · 2013-12-24 · in Ditching Wordpress for Pelican
  17. Pelican ( https://github.com/getpelican/pelican ) is a great static site generator. I really like the power of content metadata. The plugins are good, and development is ongoing. To top it off, the users on IRC are friendly and helpful.…
    comment by mitchtbaum · 2013-11-26 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite system for static website generation?
  18. …members, you will soon be able to override pages by specifying a source file and a destination URL: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/623 With this in place, you should be able to populate your site with pages (e.g.,…
    comment by SnowLprd · 2013-03-02 · in New kernel.org
  19. …any longer (switched to pelican[1] a while back), it is great to see it being picked up again! [1]: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by stock_toaster · 2012-12-16 · in Tom Preston-Werner: Development of Jekyll to be revived in 2013
  20. …over Hyde. It's Python, has great documentation and is actively developed. http://getpelican.com/ https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
    comment by rudiger · 2012-12-16 · in Tom Preston-Werner: Development of Jekyll to be revived in 2013
  21. +1 for pelican https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/
    comment by jaskew · 2012-12-01 · in Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?