Posts with the tag: pelican

Converting to Hugo

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For a while I have been using Pelican, which for most of my needs has worked extremely well. However, recently I came across a new static content generator called Hugo. One of the first things that I noticed with hugo was how many of the patterns that it uses just kind of “click” and I figured I should give it a run. There are quite a few advantages to using a static site generator vs a traditional CMS:

Pelican Navbar by Page

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Authors note: since this post was written, quite a few things have changed. I still vastly prefer static content generation, but have since switched to Hugo. While it may not be obvious, this site is entirely generated by pelican. This gives a couple nice benefits: Simplicity, Security and a good deal of Customization. Additionally since it uses Jinja templates, it is something that I am very familiar and comfortable with. Additionally, the blog posts are written in Markdown, which means that between the two things, it is fairly robust and straightforward.