{"id":4006,"date":"2016-11-14T17:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2016\/11\/14\/what-is-jekyll\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:39:20","slug":"what-is-jekyll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/jekyll\/what-is-jekyll\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Jekyll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall a simpler time on the web when all sites were basically a collection of static HTML pages linked together. Developing a site this way was tedious and time-consuming, but it had some major advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The coding was simple markup language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was secure (virtually impossible to \u201chack\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No databases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lightning fast load times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virtually no maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While these advantages were certainly remarkable, they threw some limitations on the user experience. Sites could not be generated dynamically. The way we surf the web today would not be possible in a completely static site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it became possible to publish a dynamic site easily and quickly with content management systems like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and others. These systems were highly capable and relatively easy to learn. However easy and comfortable to use, large-scale CMS installations require a sustained effort on the part of the developers and designers to keep internal components up to date and secure from hacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you could get the ease and comfort of a CMS with the speed and reliability of a static site? The need for this kind of development was answered with a series of static site generators that behave like a CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><div class=\"yt-iGWQxXVxttQ\">\n\t<a class=\"play-video-iGWQxXVxttQ\" style=\"position: relative; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; cursor: pointer;\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/iGWQxXVxttQ\/maxresdefault.webp\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Introduction to Jekyll\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\">\n\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-imh-play-circle imh-ds-icon play-circle\" style=\"position: absolute; display:block; font-size:150px; color: #c52228; opacity:0;\"><\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Don\u2019t have time to read our full article? 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