Luapress is yet another static site generator, written in Lua, with posts in Markdown.
It’s simple, fast and supports both plugins and templates.
This is free and open source software.
Note, Luapress is no longer under active development.
Key Features
- Supports a few extensions to normal Markdown including the ability to generate a excerpt/read-more link in posts, generate crosslinks between posts/pages, inject the root URL, inject a table of contents for the page, et data for that post/page, and more.
- Customization options to change things like the site title, use a custom template, to use a page as the index, to insert a pages’ content on top of the first index etc.
- Multiple environments can be defined in the config file.
- Templates – can be written in mustache, etlua or LHTML.
- Plugins – for additional functionality.
Website: luapress.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Nick Barrett
License: MIT License
Luapress is written in Lua. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Lua Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| Satelito | Uses Markdown (and HTML) for basic content and Lua files for metadata |
| luasmith | Small, simple, and flexible static site generator similar in design to Metalsmith |
| Sitegen | Assembles static pages through a pipeline consisting of templates and pages |
| LuaWebGen | Somewhat inspired by Hugo |
| Luapress | Simple and fast static site/blog generator with Markdown extensions |
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