This is a good review of a fairly complex piece of software. But don't let this convince you that all static site generators must be complex.

Out of laziness, most sites I run have their own 100-200 line Python static site generator that takes Markdown (if I'm really feeling it) or HTML files with Jinja templates and generates pages around them. The core generator code hardly ever changes year by year. Here's an example [0].

This isn't to say that everyone should always write their own. I am just a bit surprised by all the debate around each generator because they all produce the same thing and the only (or major) variables are the template language and what themes are built in (though of course you can always bring your own CSS).

But _using_ a static site generator is a very good idea. If you have no other inclinations, I think the stack that makes sense for anyone with multiple contributors is to use WordPress for editing and then have a plugin that will generate static pages from it so not every request to your site hits the database.

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master...

Indeed! For example, https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite is a simple and lightweight static site generator written in Python. It can be customized easily by modifying the Python source code and adapting it to one's needs. I like that when I need a new feature, I can add it quite easily by writing a few Python functions. It is meant to be programmer-friendly.

Disclosure: My wife wrote this project. I am just a happy user of the project.