markata 0.3.0b7

Static site generator plugins all the way down.

Markdown to site, plugins all the way down

A static site generator that will give you a great site with many standard web features like rss, sitemaps, and seo tags, out of the box. Running markata build will get you a that only requires you to write markdown. If you have additional features that you want, don't worry, since markata is built completely on plugins you can develop and install your own plugins to add the features you want.

QuickStart

Markata is fully configurable through a markata.toml file, but the defaults allow to build your site right out of the box with nothing more than markdown.

Create Some Content

Make some .md files in your current working directory. By default markata will recursively look in all subdirectories for markdown files **/*.md.

mkdir pages
echo '# My First Post' > first-post.md
echo '# Hello World' > hello-world.md

Build your site

Install markata into your virtual environment and run markata build. It will create your site in ./markout, leave its cache in ./.markata.cache, and copy all assets from ./static into ./markout by default.

python -m pip install markata
markata build

# or if pipx is your thing
pix run markata build

Motivation

Markata is able to build your site purely from markdown, allowing you to get started creating your own content quickly. Out of the box it will cover your seo tags, rss feeds, sitemap, and og images. Since it is built completely from plugins you are able to remove, modify, or add to any of its behavior.

• configurable
• plugins
• seo
• rss
• sitemap
• og-image

Using Markata

The docs are still a work in progress, but the base_cli walks through how to effectively use the markata build command. At this point Markata is far from stable and will change quite a bit, should you choose to use it on real site make sure you pin to the version that you want to build from. I will let you know as it becomes more stable and ready to use without diligence of pinning to the version you want.

Honestly A big motivation for me was wanting to learn and understand how to create a project that is completely plugin driven. This is highly a learning project for me, and it has grown into something I use each and every day.

Examples Gallary

Markata.dev

Yes, markata builds its own docs

Home page, created with index.md

base_cli plugin documentation generated with the docs plugin

WaylonWalker.com

Waylonwalker.com is created completely through markata

Post Page

archive page created through custom plugin

techstructive Blog

The very first adopter of markata, meet gor writes about golang, Django, and Bash Scripting.

He has even created a custom plugin for dynamically adding series's to his site!

images.WaylonWalker.com

Waylonwalker.com currently has the built in cover image pluugin disabled for quick builds as it it a constantly evolving site with a lot of posts. The cover images are generated in a second repo by loading article data in from markata.json and running the covers plugin.

pype.dev

Pype.dev is a menta data lake of all things python, linux, and homelab.