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Jekyll vs Pelican

A side-by-side look at Jekyll and Pelican. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Jekyll

Jekyll

Development

Jekyll is a static site generator that allows you to convert your plain text into static websites. It's commonly used for blogs. Key features include: creation of blog posts and web pages with Markdown, templates for layout, support for taxonomies for better organization, and easy customization

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Pelican

Pelican

Development

Pelican is a popular open source static site generator written in Python. It is designed for flexibility and extensibility, allowing developers to customize it for different projects. Pelican takes Markdown or reST content and generates complete static HTML websites that can be easily deployed.

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