Octopress

Jekyll is a well-known static site generator, that has expanded outside the GitHub domain and is now one of the top Ruby-based site generators.

Octopress works on top of the Jekyll core, adding support for the notion of blog posts, a blog index page and an archive section.

This helps differentiate from classic Jekyll static pages and the Octopress blog articles, allowing admins to still support normal pages at the same time with blog posts, for a more complete, WordPress-like system.

Features:

• HTML 5 friendly
• Easy to theme
• Mobile friendly code
• Syntax highlighting
• Social sharing features
• Google Analytics integration
• Disqus commenting system
• Extendable via plugins

What is new in this release:

• Now based on mojombo/jekyll
• Sports a semantic HTML5 template
• Easy theming with Compass and Sass
• A Mobile friendly responsive (320 and up) layout
• Built in 3rd party support for Twitter, Google Plus One, Disqus Comments, Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Analytics
• Deploy to Github pages or use Rsync
• Built in support for POW and Rack servers
• Beautiful Solarized syntax highlighting
• Super easy setup and configuration
• New Plugins, Filters, & Generators:
• Gist Tag for easily embedding gists in your posts
• Pygments Cache makes subsequent compiling much faster
• Include Code Tag lets you embed external code snippets from your file system and adds a download link
• Pullquote Tag Generate beautiful semantic pullquotes (no double data) based on Maykel Loomans's technique
• Blockquote Tag makes it easy to semantically format blockquotes
• Category Generator gives you archive pages for each category
• Sitemap.xml Generator for search engines