Cytoplasm is a simple-ish static site compiler written in Python. It's meant to be used mostly as a blogging engine, though it can be used for more than that. Here are some things you might like about it:
Cytoplasm is Portable
A Cytoplasm site is defined completely by its configuration and its contents. The output is just a set of plain html files, and so can be hosted just about anywhere. cytoplasm, the script, will run anywhere where Python is installed -- it's tested and works in Pythons 2.7.2 and 3.2.
Cytoplasm is Pretty Simple
Install Cytoplasm and run cytoplasm init bare to get the basis of your future blog. Add some posts in _posts, edit your templates in _templates, and cytoplasm build to generate some html files.
Cytoplasm is Easily Extensible
Cytoplasm interpreters are python functions in your configuration file. The markdown one, for example, is just:
import markdown
markdown_extensions = ['abbr', 'footnotes', 'toc', 'fenced_code', 'headerid']
@Interpreter("markdown", "md")
def markdown_interpreter(file, destination):
markdown.markdownFromFile(input=file, output=destination,
extensions = markdown_extensions, encoding="utf8", safe=False)
Similarly, Cytoplasm controllers are classes that inherit from a base class in the cytoplasm module.
Cytoplasm Integrates Well With Git
This source of this site (compiled by Cytoplasm, of course) can be cloned from https://startling@github.com/startling/cytoplasm-site.git. Everything works within a git repository; in fact, you'll be missing a lot if you don't use one. Controllers can be installed as git submodules. Pull and push wherever you want!
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