10 Awesome Static Site Generators (PHP)

Jekkyll

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Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through a converter (like Markdown) and our Liquid renderer, and spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable for serving with your favorite web server.

Github: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll

Octopress

octopress

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of.

Github: https://github.com/octopress/

Sculpin

sculpin-io

Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. It converts Markdown files, Twig templates and standard HTML into a static HTML site that can be easily deployed.

Github: https://github.com/sculpin/sculpin.io

Katana

katana

PHP static site & blog generator with markdown support. Using the power of laravel’s Blade templating engine.
Github: https://github.com/themsaid/katana/

Handle

handle
The Handle CLI takes your Markdown content and Blade theme files and generates a static site (HTML) for you. It’s fast, flexible and powerful.

Github: https://github.com/gilbitron/handle

Jigsaw

jigsw
Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers your web applications.

Github: https://github.com/tightenco/jigsaw/

Couscous

couscous

Couscous is built for simplicity.It has no requirement on your directory layout, it takes a single command to preview the website and a single one to deploy to GitHub pages.

Github: https://github.com/CouscousPHP/Couscous

Datenstrom

datenstrom

Datenstrom is a software maker from Sweden.

Github: https://github.com/datenstrom/

Carew

carew

Just like every other static site / blog generator (jekyll, hyde, poole, lanyon), its name comes from the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story.

Github: http://carew.github.io/cookbook.html

Phpoole

phpoole

An easy and lightweight static website generator, written in PHP.

Github: https://github.com/Narno/PHPoole

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