BSSG is a static site generator written in Bash. It processes Markdown and HTML content to build minimal, accessible websites suitable for blogs, personal journals, and small publishing projects.
It offers a broad feature set while keeping the core workflow simple. There’s support for configurable Markdown processors, rich front matter, tags, archives, RSS, sitemaps, themes, and a built-in development server. It’s designed to run across Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generate static sites from Markdown, HTML pages, and command-line post creation.
- Front matter support for titles, dates, tags, slugs, images, descriptions, authors, and last modified dates.
- Creates tag pages, archive pages, RSS feeds, sitemaps, and related post suggestions.
- Includes more than 60 themes covering modern, retro, OS-inspired, and reading-focused styles.
- Built-in local development server for previewing generated sites.
- Supports multi-author sites, draft posts, backups, and restore operations.
- Performance features include incremental builds, caching, RAM build mode, and optional parallel processing.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
Website: brew.bsd.cafe/stefano/BSSG
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Developer: Stefano Marinelli
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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