Pelican vs Frozen-Flask

Pelican and Frozen-Flask are both open source static site generators written in Python, but that's where the similarities end. See the full comparison of Pelican and Frozen-Flask.

Property Pelican Frozen-Flask
Language Python Python
Templates Jinja2 Jinja2
License AGPL-3.0-only BSD-3-Clause

Pelican benefits

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python.

  • Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown
  • Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog
  • Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks
  • Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Features

Pelican currently supports:

  • Blog articles and pages
  • Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)
  • Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates)
  • PDF generation of the articles/pages (optional)
  • Publication of articles in multiple languages
  • Atom/RSS feeds
  • Code syntax highlighting
  • Import from WordPress, Dotclear, or RSS feeds
  • Integration with external tools: Twitter, Google Analytics, etc. (optional)
  • Fast rebuild times thanks to content caching and selective output writing.

Why the name "Pelican"?

"Pelican" is an anagram for calepin, which means "notebook" in French. ;)

Frozen-Flask benefits

Frozen-Flask freezes a Flask application into a set of static files. It works by simulating requests at the WSGI level and writing the responses to aptly named files.