Plerd
Ultralight Markdown blogging platform that generates a static website from a folder of Markdown files.
Plerd is a blogging platform that builds a static website from a folder of Markdown files, using Template Toolkit templates for its pages. The plerdall program builds the whole site on demand, and plerdwatcher is a daemon that monitors the source folder and republishes whatever changed.
There is no database and no admin interface. Posts are Markdown files in the source folder. The software is written in Perl, needs Perl 5.26 or later, and installs from CPAN with cpanm.
Worth knowing
The README says the source folder typically lives on the web server and is synced from a laptop with Dropbox, rclone or similar, so plerdwatcher runs where the folder is. Plerd serves nothing itself: a separate web server serves the generated files.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Jason McIntosh1
- Maintained by
- Individual
- First release
- 20154
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files3
- Rendering
- Static output3
- Install with
- cpanm3
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: links, Maintainer, Content storage, Admin interface, License model
jmac.org/plerd/ - 2026-10-23: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/jmacdotorg/plerd - 2026-10-23: links, Categories, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with, Templating, Rendering, Runs as
github.com/jmacdotorg/plerd/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/jmacdotorg/plerd/releases - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/jmacdotorg/plerd/contributors