[currysausage]

Let's not forget that Lektor solves actual problems. Show me another CMS that offers:

- Static HTML export with elegant dependency tracking by design (reducing attack vectors and maintenance cost on the frontend server)

- Admin interface (I can't tell a non-techie to connect via SSH, fire up vi and run Jekyll)

- Flexible content structure (Title/Author/Content doesn't really scale beyond a simple blog)

- Elegant design and implementation (I could do anything with WordPress and half a dozen plugins, but I fail to even find a bare-bones theme without kilobytes of code that I will never need; the whole ecosystem revolves around the novice user who understandably prefers "quick and dirty" over touching code)

I have been looking for a CMS that fulfills these exact criteria for quite some time. Lektor looks ideal for projects where the developer prepares a non-trivial page structure (think book listings, music albums, anything that goes beyond bold and italic), but the client should be able to edit content. Thank you, Armin!

[hanniabu]

A few alternatives....

http://getgrav.org/

http://getcockpit.com/

http://harpjs.com/

[scotchio]

Checkout SpudPress - Static WordPress hosting. All the same except you can use WordPress theming and Admin. If you know how to distinguish between static and dynamic. It's insanely useful

http://spudpress.com

[isoos]

I think a lot of people who would love to use a self-hosted version of this. However, paying for $20/m is usually not worth for a hobby/blog site.

[the_mitsuhiko]

Correct me if I'm wrong but they are either hosted CMS solutions (Grav, Cockpit) or static website generators (Harp) like Jekyll and friends.

[hanniabu]

Harp actually is a static generator (didn't think it was, never used before).

And yes, Grav and Cockpit are self-hosted flat-file CMS, but now that you ask makes me confused. I was under the impression that Lektor was similar where you have a flat-file CMS and whenever a change is made, the static files are created.

My second guess is that this actually a CMS that exists locally and deploys static files when a change is made?

[detaro]

Lektor is a static site generator: it generates a "compiled" version of the site that is uploaded to a simple web server, without any server-side scripts running. If you want to edit something, you run it locally, make your changes, generate new files and copy those to the web server.

The key addition is that there is a nice UI for adding content in the system running locally, so it can be used by less technical users that might not feel comfortable with writing in text files with special tags/metadata, as traditional static generators require.

[ar-jan]

GravCMS perhaps? http://getgrav.org

[currysausage]

Grav advertises "smart caching", so it's not static export by design, is it?

[ar-jan]

You're right, it's not a static site generator, but a (very fast) dynamic flat file CMS. I guess I got this mixed up because I found it while looking into static site generators.

[gotchange]

Did you test this generator in production? If not, the verdict is not out yet on Lektor and remains to be seen how it will fare in production environments and on the battlefields.