SBWG - sweet bash website generator

SBWG (sweet bash website generator) is a ~~simple~~ bash script that generates a static HTML web site from simple text files. I wrote it just for ~~fun~~ this website. And it's pronounced sibwig (because why not). It is not professional, not very adaptive to other website structures ~~and does not have many features compared to most other static website generators~~. But if you know HTML and bash you can certainly adapt it for creating other websites. Or use it as it is, if you happen to want the same website structure as I have. As the project grew some features have been introduced that make it simple to customise a web site without editing the script itself. To bring it to full flexibility you can now even add hooks with your own code to individual web sites or even overwrite functions of the script without editing the script itself.

I publish new versions here at unpredictable intervals. There likely already is a newer version that I just haven't come around to adding yet. If you are interested in my blog entries about SBWG, look there or there.

Features

Generates static HTML structure from a plain text source file structure
Adds menu(s), header and footer to each page/HTML file
No database needed
Simple image galleries
Weblog/Blog generation

Categorised posts with multiple levels
Blog entries can be additionally categorised in topics for an index view
Classical blog view, filterable by category, topic, author, language or author AND one of the others
Support for multi-author weblogs
Attached image galleries
Use of images/icons for tags
Simple RSS feed
File attachments, embedded media attachments

Stylesheet templates
Modifications/Additions to the generation process on a per-web-site basis with hooks and a sourced settings file
Easy staging

Download

Read the top of the CHANGELOG file before running an updated version of SBWG on an existing web site!