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
Support:
Developer: Stefano Marinelli
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Related Software
| Bash Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| bashblog | Simple blog system written in a single bash script. Download, run, write, done |
| MakeStaticSite | Generate and deploy static websites |
| Jenny | Bash-based static blog generator |
| Exposé | Simple static site generator for photoessays |
| BSSG | Offers a broad feature set while keeping the core workflow simple |
| BashWrite | Create a simple blog from Markdown files |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our carefully curated directory of recommended free and open source software, covering every major software category.The directory forms part of our extensive collection of articles for Linux enthusiasts. It includes hundreds of detailed reviews, together with free and open source alternatives to proprietary software from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. LinuxLinks also covers interesting projects worth exploring, Linux-compatible hardware, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application that we haven’t covered? Tell us about it using our submission form. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.