I ran my own blog for many years but recently I suspect my server got hacked, and after reinstalling I want to do things a little differently.

I’d like to move away from PHP and I don’t really need a dynamic CMS anyhow.

So far I’ve been using PicoCMS which serves content from markdown pages with a little header. I got quite good at it, wrote my own theme and a few plugins. The templating language is Twig so something similar would be a boon for me.

Writing content in markdown is my most important requirement, or rather reusing the existing pages with as little massaging as possible. Here is one example:

---
Title: Create WiFi Hotspot with NetworkManager
date: 24.11.2022
Tags: archlinux,android
template: post
---

# Make sure required depenencies are installed

blablablablablablablabla

I really want a tag cloud, which used to be my only sorting mechanism apart from date. Most generators, at first glance, offer a tags page. Honestly I have no idea if I’d have to template the cloud myself but tag functionality seems to be common, I guess?

What I don’t want is any sort of web UI or even builtin server functionality or other bells and whistles for the user. I prefer to ssh into the server and do things on the CLI.

Now my most important constraint is that I want to use what’s available in (or as a) Debian repositories. After a quick search around it boils down to:

Searching for similar topics I found this and this. I read all the comments.

TIA

edit: Lots of people mention Hugo. Why would I choose that over, say, Jekyll or Pelican?
Personally I feel drawn more towards Python than Go or Rust, and a Twig-like (e.g. Jinja) templating language. If that’s idiotic, please let me know why.
Also please remember I’m not running a github (or other similar VCS) page but have a dedicated VPS running Debian Stable. Deployment or containerization are of no interest to me.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    My runner up was Pelican, because I was fluent in Jinja2, but I didn’t want to mess around with the templates and Hugo’s were prettier.

    I think you’re the first one mentioning Pelican. Apart from the theming, would you recommend it? I’m familiar with Twig.

    needing to find a gallery component

    Oh yes, that would also be relatively important to me. Again, does Pelican offer that?

    • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      There must have been a gallery component, since I only looked at generators that had one available.

      Honestly, in hindsight the templates were really not a big deal. Just for fun, I tried converting the Hugo template I used to Pelican, and it was easy for me.

      Pelican is solid and mature and I would use it, in hindsight. The only major flaws are that it’s much slower (but makes up for it with incremental builds) and that the community is much, much smaller. On the plus side, Jinja2 is much, much, much better than Go templating (Hugo borrows from Go).