I have this Wordpress site - don't intend to start (yet another) flame war, but I'd really like to make a change. I've used Jekyll before, and lately, checked out Octopress, as well as Python-based static site tools like Hyde and Pelican.<p>What would you recommend?
There's a brief review of available options here:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators
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In conclusion most of them rock, but so many of them have problems with symlinks. I use templer:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/skx/templer
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Largely it will come down to whether you're building "a site", or "a blog". The two are slightly different.
I finally just got into Jekyll to build a quick lesson based website and I'm really impressed. So far my only gripe is that gh-pages doesn't allow plugins, but it's easy to generate the site locally and only push _site so not even a big deal.