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    Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing

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    • AmbarishrhA
      Ambarishrh
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      http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/

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      • scottalanmillerS
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        Great article and they make some really good points. I wonder if we will see (or there already is and I am just not aware) something like a "WordPress to Static" took that lets you work with WP but turns it into a static site?

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
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          Nice read. I sent that on to a couple people.

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          • AmbarishrhA
            Ambarishrh
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            Seems like Smashingmagazine has a list of such website generators, and looking at one of them, http://jekyllrb.com/docs/migrations/ shows that there are tools that can already migrate from other blogging system

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Ambarishrh
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              @Ambarishrh said:

              Seems like Smashingmagazine has a list of such website generators, and looking at one of them, http://jekyllrb.com/docs/migrations/ shows that there are tools that can already migrate from other blogging system

              Would you want to migrate, though? Seems like a daily "generate a static site" process that automatically does this would be better. I could see this being great for my blog and some other sites that I work on.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
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                Cool, reverting kinda back to Web 1.0 days. damn things were easier back then!

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                • AmbarishrhA
                  Ambarishrh
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                  For quite some time, i was thinking of moving from WP to ghost https://ghost.org/ as its only for blogging unlike WP. But still havent decided. I would love to start writing again somethings at least i could keep it as a journal on what I do.

                  Regarding something to automatically process, i just saw this plugin, this helps?

                  https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Ambarishrh
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                    @Ambarishrh said:

                    For quite some time, i was thinking of moving from WP to ghost https://ghost.org/ as its only for blogging unlike WP. But still havent decided. I would love to start writing again somethings at least i could keep it as a journal on what I do.

                    Regarding something to automatically process, i just saw this plugin, this helps?

                    https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

                    I think that that is exactly what I want!! Awesome. Totally looking into this now!!

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                    • AmbarishrhA
                      Ambarishrh
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                      Nice! Let us know how it goes

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                      • Reid CooperR
                        Reid Cooper
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                        This is a very interesting idea. This would address security concerns with products like Wordpress because you would not have any code to attack. No way to do something like a SQL Injection attack. And even if something was added somehow to the site it would get overwritten. I like where they are going with this.

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                        • dafyreD
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                          You could also allow for the dynamic bits of the app to be hosted internally, and when you make a new post, it just uploads the data to the public site.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Seems like that would be very complicated. You would need to write your own tooling for it, I assume, and the static part has to overwrite the whole thing, generally.

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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller Yeah. But it would be blazing fast (as compared to Wordpress and the like), and could be run from pretty much any web server in existence without having to worry about PHP, and various addons that need to be installed in the system.

                              It wouldn't work for ALL applications... but a large majority of them, I think it could do well.

                              Edit: As somebody else mentioned, a plugin for this in Wordpress would be awesome!

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                                @dafyre said:

                                Edit: As somebody else mentioned, a plugin for this in Wordpress would be awesome!

                                https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

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                                • dafyreD
                                  dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller I just stumbled across that, lol.

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