StaticForge is a PHP static site generator built around an event-driven processing pipeline. It takes Markdown and HTML source content and turns it into deployment-ready static files using Twig for presentation.
Its architecture is more extensive than a basic Markdown-to-HTML converter. Site generation is divided into features and services, providing extension points for altering processing behaviour while retaining a command-line workflow for creating, developing and publishing sites.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Processes Markdown and HTML source files with front matter metadata.
- Uses Twig for templates and supports additional installable templates.
- Command-line tools cover project setup, site rendering and local development.
- An event-driven feature system provides extension points throughout the build pipeline.
- Built-in facilities cover menus, categories, tags and other site navigation structures.
- Can generate RSS and other site feeds.
- Provides sitemap and robots.txt generation.
- Includes search functionality for generated sites.
- Offers responsive-image and other content-processing facilities.
- Includes commands and supporting infrastructure for uploading generated sites.
- Development-server functionality can monitor source changes and rebuild content while working on a site.
- Configuration combines environment settings with YAML site configuration.
- Composer handles installation and optional feature packages.
Website: github.com/calevans/staticforge
Support:
Developer: Cal Evans
License: MIT License
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