Sculpin is a PHP static site generator that transforms source material into a set of static HTML files. It supports Markdown and other text formats and uses Twig for templates.
The software is not limited to blogs. Sites can be assembled from scratch, while supplied skeleton projects provide ready-made structures for common uses such as blogs and landing pages. Metadata can be used to organise content into taxonomies such as categories and tags.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Transforms Markdown, Textile and other source files into static HTML.
- Uses Twig for layouts and templates.
- Composer-based installation and dependency management.
- Blog skeleton provides a prepared structure for posts, pagination and taxonomies.
- Additional skeletons can provide starting points for other types of website.
- Supports YAML metadata for content including tags and categories.
- Custom content types can be defined for projects that do not fit a conventional blog structure.
- Built-in development workflow can watch source files, regenerate changed content and serve the site locally.
- Separate development and production output makes it possible to omit drafts from published builds.
- Bundles can extend Sculpin without modifying its core.
- Lifecycle hooks and Symfony-based internals provide scope for more advanced extensions.
- Generated output consists of ordinary static files suitable for a wide range of hosting platforms.
Website: github.com/sculpin/sculpin
Support:
Developer: Dragonfly Development Inc.
License: MIT License
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