Zola
Static site generator distributed as a single binary, with the Tera template engine, Sass compilation and search built in.
www.getzola.org/repositorydocs
Zola is a Rust program that turns a folder of Markdown files into a static site, rendered with the Tera template engine. Sass compilation and search are built in. It ships as one executable with no dependencies, so the machine that builds the site needs no language runtime. Multilingual sites are supported, which the README calls basic. Themes are listed in a theme gallery. Vincent Prouillet maintains it as an individual, and the project was first named Gutenberg.
Worth knowing
Code added after a license change in 2026 is under EUPL-1.2, while code that existed before stays MIT. Zola has no plugin system.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Vincent Prouillet2
- Maintained by
- Individual2
- First release
- 20173
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files10
- Rendering
- Static output2
- Install with
- prebuilt binary, homebrew, macports, linux and bsd distribution packages, winget, scoop, chocolatey, snap, flatpak, docker, cargo install7
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/getzola/zola - 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer, Maintained by, Categories, Runtime, Content storage, Rendering
www.getzola.org/ - 2026-10-18: First release
github.com/getzola/zola/releases/tag/v0.0.2 - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105808719 - 2026-10-18: Templating
www.getzola.org/documentation/templates/overview/ - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
www.getzola.org/documentation/content/multilingual/ - 2026-10-18: Install with
www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/installation/ - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/getzola/zola/releases/latest - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/getzola/zola/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-19: Runs as
www.getzola.org/documentation/deployment/github-pages/