I recently found out about Nikola (through Planet Python). It is awesome,
even better than Hyde. Why? Right after the break.
Why?
- A lively community and an awesome lead developer, Roberto Alsina.
- Actively developed (last commit to Hyde was 11 months ago).
- Easily extensible.
- Ships with the Bootstrap style, to which I planned to migrate (and I did)
- reStructuredText, Markdown, Textile, … input.
How?
After you have Nikola installed:
- Create a site:
- nikola init mysite
- Create a post:
- nikola new_post
- Edit the post:
- The filename should be in the output of the previous command.
- Build the site:
- nikola build
- Start the test server:
- nikola serve
- See the site:
- http://127.0.0.1:8000
That should get you going. If you want to know more, this manual will always be
here for you.The Nikola
Handbook by Roberto Alsina
That’s how easy it is. Nikola has many more useful features.
And sure, I had to manually fix up all the posts because I decided to switch to
RST, but that’s not a problem.
Plans for the future
I did transition the blog, but not everything is done yet. I need to create a
Contact form and a Project page. Both should be done by Sunday.