Nikola, a Static Site and Blog Generator
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In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

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Why Static Websites?
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Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in.
You can read more about this in the `Nikola Handbook`_


What Can Nikola Do?
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It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

* `Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc.`__
* `Themable`_
* Fast builds, thanks to `doit`_
* Flexible, extensible via the dozens of `available plugins`_
* Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
* `reStructuredText`_ or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
* Easy `image galleries`_ (just drop files in a folder!)
* Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
* Multilingual sites, `translated to 18 languages.`__
* Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
* Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 compatible.

.. _Nikola Handbook: https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#why-static
__ https://users.getnikola.com/
.. _Themable: https://themes.getnikola.com
.. _doit: http://pydoit.org
.. _available plugins: https://plugins.getnikola.com/
.. _reStructuredText: https://getnikola.com/quickstart.html
.. _image galleries: https://getnikola.com/galleries/demo/
__ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/nikola/

Nikola Architecture
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Installation Instructions
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Assuming you have pip installed::

    pip install Nikola

For optional features::

    pip install Nikola[extras]

For tests (see tests/README.rst for more details)::

    pip install Nikola[extras,tests]

For more information, see https://getnikola.com/
