- creates a well organized website with clear navigation reflecting the folder structure of source text documents
- fast, well compressed, mobile friendly pages
- feed and sitemap files for your subscribers and search engines
- import from any CMS DB (inc. Wordpress), import HTML sites
Writers love distraction free conventional plain text formatting. Template designers love the easy to read, beautiful and powerful template language.
Page is a small command line program written in Python programming language. It requires python installed, which lets user install Page on any platform in a single command.
pip install page
By default, Page will collect all text files in current folder and create a HTML website in a static folder using default templates. Run the program
page
it will look for a config file
./page.yml
with custom options.
source: /markdown/source/folder/
target: /target/folder/
tpl: /custom/template/folder/
ext: '' # or '.htm'
ctx:
site_name: 'My Site'
site_url: https://example.org
Minimal default template.
Page has lots of tests including one importing an existing HTML site, converting it to source markdown files and then back into a static HTML site in full circle. This code can inspire users to convert existing static site or one powered by a slow Content Management System to simple markdown powered static site and maintain it with Page.
Static cache generation helpers provided for Django.