Tinkerer

Created on top of Python's Sphinx engine, Tinkerer is an easy to use solution for Python developers that just got tired of those heavy loading CMS engines that everyone seems to love nowadays.

Simple, easy to learn, and incredibly fast, Tinkerer uses the classic static site generation rendition pattern to let users create their site's content in local static files and publish them online with the help of template engines.

ReST (reStructuredText) is used to format the text itself, while Jinja2 for the templating engine.

Support for extensions and themes is also included. This means developers can tweak the sites they make to anything they want, so they don't get stuck in using the same skin and functionality for every project.

Everything in the Tinkerer backend is done via simple Python CLI commands, and the documentation includes usage examples to get the editors started on quickly publishing their content.

Features:

• Fast website delivery
• ReST text formatting
• Pygments for source code formatting
• Support for Sphinx extensions
• Support for its own set of extensions
• Blog-like publishing support
• Metadata support
• Support for drafts
• Favicon customization
• Support for a blog sidebar
• Multi-authors support
• Support for categories
• Support for tags
• Posts archive page
• Atom or RSS syndication
• Disqus integration for comments
• HTML5 Boilerplate starting template
• Font Awesome support
• WAI-ARIA basic support
• L10n support
• Custom 404 and 403 error pages
• Easy to integrate with traffic analytics services
• Can be hosted on GitHub or Bitbucket
• Support for theming

What is new in this release:

• Support for custom landing page with new landing_page option in conf.py
• Ability to rename "Home" to a custom string with conf.py setting
• Moved up to minimum supported Sphinx version 1.2.3. Support for Sphinx 1.3b.
• Slovak localization
• Numerous bug fixes

What is new in version 1.4:

• New --template flag that allows using a custom RST template for a given post or page
• New rss_max_items config option to limit the number of RSS items to be placed in the feed
• Updated Russian localization
• Updated site-search JS script to newer version from Sphinx project
• Other bug fixes and improvements under the hood
• Tinkerer now uses Font Awesome (also see deprecation warning below)
• Generated HTML now has WAI-ARIA roles