Open Infrastructure

https://www.gatsbyjs.org

• Need knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, React, and GraphQL
• Need to learn quite a few things.
• Probably, not a good choice.
• Matomo plugin available

https://gohugo.io/

• Easy to use
• Markdown (also support short-codes that enable to embed tweets/gist/vimeo/youtube/instagram/) https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/
• Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of time from installing to publishing first post
• Sitemap
• Internationalization support
• Does not have builtin search support but can be added https://gohugo.io/tools/search/ (not-tested)
• Support theming AFAIK
• Matomo plugin available (not-tested)

https://blog.getpelican.com/ (Written in Python)

• Easy to use
• Markdown (support too many plugins although most of them are not very active on Github so, can't comment on their functionality https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins)
• Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of time from installing to publishing first post
• Sitemap (through plugin - Tested)
• Internationalization support
• Does not have builtin search support but can be added (through plugin - Not Tested)
• Support theming AFAIK
• Seems like grown old and no body care it anymore
• Matomo plugin not-available

https://jekyllrb.com

• Easy to use
• Markdown (support many plugins. I tested Youtube and Sitemap plugins. Both works great - https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins)
• Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of time from installing to publishing first post
• Sitemap (through plugin - Tested)
• Internationalization support (Plugin - Not Tested)
• Does not have builtin search support but can be added (through plugin - Not Tested)
• Support theming AFAIK
• Matomo plugin available (not-tested but seems like solid)
• So, far most mature and looks good to me

https://www.getlektor.com

• Easy to use for simpler cases
• Markdown (support plugins https://www.getlektor.com/plugins/. I tested Sitemap plugins)
• Take too much trouble to install (most probably its my machine only)
• Sitemap (through plugin - Tested)
• Internationalization support (Plugin - Not Tested)
• Does not have builtin search support but can be added (A plugin is available but I couldn't make it to work yet)
• Support theming AFAIK
• Matomo plugin not-available

https://hexo.io/

• Easy to use
• Very Poor Default Theme
• Markdown (support special tags https://hexo.io/docs/tag-plugins. support plugins. I tested Sitemap plugins. https://hexo.io/plugins/index.html)
• Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of time from installing to publishing first post
• Sitemap (through plugin - Tested)
• Internationalization support (Not Tested)
• Have builtin search support (through Google)
• Support theming AFAIK
• Matomo plugin not-available

Hey Ahmed,

can you give a summary at the end and add your opinion about the various
tools?

Best,

Nico

redmine@ungleich.ch writes:

If I have to use it for myself, I would go with Jekyll. It is easy to setup and use, have a lot of plugins, stable and mature. It supports all the things we initially needed. We should give it a try first (on some development VM maybe). Mutiple CMS are also available on the top of Jekyll https://jekyllrb.com/resources/