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Wok

Wok is a static website generator. It turns a pile of templates, content, and resources (like CSS and images) into a neat stack of plain html.

The idea is that you don't need a big PHP engine generating every page every visit: you can generate them all ahead of time, and only regenerate things when something has changed. A good way this could be done would be with a post-commit hook on a git repository containing your content or layout.

I made Wok because projects like Jekyll, Hyde, and Static were intriguing, but in the end didn't quite match what I wanted to do with my website. So I am writing my own.

Features

• Parse markdown files, and render them to a flat set of HTML files based on the given templates.
• Provide various metadata for each page.
• Configuration file (YAML).

Planned features

• Hierarchical Pages.
• Self-serving test server.
• Copy site resources (images, CSS, etc) to the output directory automatically.