wmk is a flexible and versatile static site generator.
wmk is suitable for building any small or medium-sized static website (up to a few hundred pages).
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Markdown or HTML content with YAML metadata in the frontmatter.
- Support for themes.
- Sass/SCSS support (via libsass).
- Can generate a search index for use by lunr.js.
- Shortcodes for more expressive and extensible content.
- The content is rendered using Mako, a template system which makes all the resources of Python easily available to you.
- “Stand-alone” templates – i.e. templates that are not used for presenting markdown-based content – are also rendered if present. This can e.g. be used for list pages or content based on external sources (such as a database).
- Additional data for the site may be loaded from separate YAML files or even (with a small amount of Python/Mako code) from other data sources such as CSV files, SQL databases or REST/graphql APIs.
- The shortcode system is considerably more powerful than that of most static site generators. For instance, among the default shortcodes are an image thumbnailer and a page list component. A shortcode is just a Mako component, so if you know some Python you can easily build your own.
- Optional support for the powerful Pandoc document converter, for the entire site or on a page-by-page basis. This gives you access to such features as LaTeX math markup and academic citations, as well as to Pandoc’s well-designed filter system for extending markdown. Pandoc also enables you to export your content to other formats (such as PDF) in addition to HTML, if you so wish.
- Also via Pandoc, support for several non-markdown input formats for content, namely LaTeX, Org, RST, Textile, Djot, Typst, man, JATS, TEI, Docbook, RTF, DOCX, ODT, and EPUB.
Website: github.com/bk/wmk
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Developer: Baldur Kristinsson
License: MIT License
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