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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by frigg on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:43PM (#10549930)
I tried Pelican just to see how they work and what's so special about static site generators. The downside for me was having to go through the process of re-generating the site and committing just so you can fix something as simple as a grammar error or a comma. It gets old fast IMO. The other annoyance was with images included in the post. You have to copy then write the image path because you don't have something like a pop-up box which just selects the image.

So I switched to ghost and I'm fairly happy for now. The downside of this is that I have to pay ~$4 a month for a shared hosting, which is fine by me.

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by brazzledazzle on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:53PM (#10549986)
I've yet to try it but that's the downside that would slightly annoy me. Probably not enough to turn me off of it, but maybe. Would post-commit hooks and some kind of automation make it easier?
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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by Zikes on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:05PM (#10550047)
Hugo has an option built-in to watch the directory and rebuild pages automatically. It can also reload the browser automatically using the optional LiveReload plugin: http://gohugo.io/overview/usage/
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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by wuschel on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:30PM (#10550174)
Interesting.

In general: What would be the best approach towards having a part of the website static (main part), and only the blog/press part being regenerated?

Does Hugo/Pelican/Jekyll/Hakyll etc handle this kind of functionality?

As an alternative, what would be a good light weight CMS these days (ideally in Python)?

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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by acchan on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:38PM (#10550216)
Pelican does too. Just use 'make regenerate' instead of 'make publish': http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.6.3/publish.html#make
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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll by girvo on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:44PM (#10550258)
Right, I agree! But that's why Harp is so neat: harpjs.com
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