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.. title: Nikola
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Nikola is a Static Site and Blog Generator
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In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.


**Why Static Websites?**

Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in.
You can read more about this in the `Nikola Handbook </handbook.html#why-static>`__ or see |buzz|

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   <a class="btn btn-danger btn-lg" href="https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/latest"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-download-alt"></i> Get Nikola (v7.6.1)</a>

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What Can Nikola Do?
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It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

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* `Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc. <https://users.getnikola.com/>`_
* `Themable <https://themes.getnikola.com>`_
* Fast builds, thanks to `doit <http://python-doit.sf.net>`_
* Flexible, extensible via the dozens of `available plugins <https://plugins.getnikola.com>`__
* Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
* `reStructuredText <quickstart.html>`_ [`Cheatsheet <https://github.com/ralsina/rst-cheatsheet/blob/dfaf3e283ee5df9d4c4b50ff9be2fa7db93c0427/rst-cheatsheet.pdf?raw=true>`_]
  or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, AsciiDoc, Python Notebooks,
  Misaka, Pandoc, txt2tags, orgmode, and HTML)
* Easy `image galleries </galleries/demo/>`_ (just drop files in a folder!)
* Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
* Multilingual sites, `translated to 18 languages <https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/nikola/>`_.
* Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
* Python 2 and 3 compatible.
* Is it a good idea to try github master today? |status|

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            :target: https://travis-ci.org/getnikola/nikola

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    <!-- Button to trigger modal -->
    <a href="#myModal" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">what people are saying about Nikola right now.</a>

    <!-- Modal -->
    <div id="myModal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog"
    aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true" style="display: none;">
    <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
        <h3 id="myModalLabel">What People Say About Nikola Lately</h3>
    </div>
        <div style="text-align: center; height: 450px;">
        <a class="modal-body twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=getnikola.com" data-widget-id="428975760171233280">Tweets about "getnikola.com"</a>
        <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
        </div>
    <div class="modal-footer">
        <button class="btn btn-primary" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
    </div>
    </div>


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