Pelican
Python static site generator that builds blogs and sites from reStructuredText or Markdown with Jinja2 themes.
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Pelican is a Python program that builds blogs and sites from reStructuredText or Markdown files, rendered with Jinja2 themes. It needs no database and no server-side logic, so the output is files for any static host. Importers handle WordPress, Dotclear and RSS feeds. The publishing guide describes uploading the output with rsync over SSH.
Worth knowing
Plugins are published as separate Python packages from the pelican-plugins GitHub organization, and the legacy plugin repository is being phased out.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- First release
- 20102
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files10
- Rendering
- Static output4
- Install with
- python3 -m pip install "pelican[markdown]", pipx install "pelican[markdown]", uv tool install "pelican[markdown]"6
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: links, Minimum runtime, License, Current major version
pypi.org/pypi/pelican/json - 2026-10-18: First release
docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/changelog.html - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28975326 - 2026-10-18: Categories, Content storage, Templating, Multilingual, Rendering
getpelican.com/ - 2026-10-18: Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/getpelican/pelican - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with
docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/install.html - 2026-10-18: Last release
github.com/getpelican/pelican/releases/latest - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/getpelican/pelican/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-18: links
docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/plugins.html - 2026-10-19: Runs as
docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/quickstart.html - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages, Downloads a month
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/pelican