# Jekyll

Ruby static site generator that turns plain text, Markdown and Liquid templates into websites and blogs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/jekyll/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://jekyllrb.com/
- repository: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
- docs: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/
- x: https://twitter.com/jekyllrb
- forum: https://talk.jekyllrb.com/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Jekyll core team
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2008
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: ruby
- runtime: ruby
- runtimeMin: ruby 2.7
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: liquid
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: gem install bundler jekyll

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-01-29

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 51715
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 1264
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 1955
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 490112
- dependentPackages: 2298

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/jekyll.json (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://endoflife.date/api/jekyll.json (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://jekyllrb.com/team/ (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17067385 (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/ (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/jekyll.json (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/ (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/ (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://jekyllrb.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/jekyll.json (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/jekyll.json (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll/contributors?anon=true (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/ (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/jekyll (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/jekyll (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Jekyll reads a folder of Markdown and HTML pages, runs them through Liquid templates, and writes a static site, so the output needs only static file hosting. The project dates from 2008 and is written in Ruby. A new site starts from Minima, a theme that installs as a gem. A volunteer core team maintains Jekyll, and GitHub Pages runs Jekyll sites for its users.

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