Nikola 6.1.0

A modular, fast, simple, static website generator

In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

Why Static Websites?

Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in. You can read more about this in the Nikola Handbook

What Can Nikola Do?

It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

• Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc.
• Themable
• Fast builds, thanks to doit
• Flexible, extensible via plugins
• Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
• reStructuredText or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
• Easy image galleries (just drop files in a folder!)
• Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
• Multilingual sites, translated to 17 languages.
• Doesn’t reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
• Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 compatible.

Installation Instructions

The easiest way:

pip install nikola

Some features may require you to install additional python packages using pip.

Assuming you have pip installed and want the latest (could be a bit unstable):

git clone git://github.com/getnikola/nikola.git
cd nikola
pip install .

Optionally (for markdown and lots of other features):

pip install -r requirements.txt

For even more stuff, like tests and very optional features:

pip install -r requirements-full.txt

For more information, see http://getnikola.com/