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Tag: Static site generators

  • The Lasting Power of WYSIWYG

    Jekyll has become one of my favorite things lately. At 18F we’re using it to power our website but also our Hub project which includes serving up snippets, our weekly team updates submitted by Google Form, as well as a tremendous amount of information that is a mix of pages restricted to our team and…

  • rePress: Jekyll with a WordPress Frontend

    Note: I’m not maintaining this open source project anymore. There was a pretty cool reception to it and I didn’t have time to maintain it for just myself. I still think it’s a good idea, though. 🙂 About five months ago I left the riveting world of WordPress development for the greener pastures of helping a…

  • Static sites revisited

    I’ve been thinking a lot about static site generators lately. We use Jekyll at 18f, a generator platform I had previously only used in the context of Octopress and very briefly and fleetingly at CFPB. My past life as a WordPress developer effectively ended in September when I began shifting careers a bit to go back…