SSGs through the ages: The ‘After Jekyll’ era

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WordPress Landing Page
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WordPress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Wordpress is probably the most common blog software. I didn’t really like it, because it’s written in php, and because I recently became interested in static site generators.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 764 social mentions
Sass Landing Page
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Sass

Syntatically Awesome Style Sheets
Pricing:
- Open Source
Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Javascript UI Libraries 131 social mentions
Octopress Landing Page
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Octopress

A static blogging framework for hackers, based on Jekyll
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 2 social mentions
MiddleMan Landing Page
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MiddleMan

A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 11 social mentions
Jekyll Landing Page
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Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions
Hakyll Landing Page
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Hakyll

Hakyll - A Static Site Generator in Haskell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 6 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tom Preston-Werner founded GitHub in 2008 with his cofounders Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon. 2008 was a busy year for Tom. Nine months after founding GitHub, in December 2008, he launched Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2036 social mentions
Compass CSS Landing Page
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Compass CSS

Compass is an open-source CSS Authoring Framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.

#Developer Tools #CSS #CSS Tools 3 social mentions
Pelican Landing Page
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Pelican

A static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 24 social mentions