I got tired of the constant Tumblr outages and keeping a Django site up and running seemed like too much work, so I made Tempo. Tempo is a small static site generator written in PHP. I use it for this site and will probably use it for some others in the future. It takes

• A small PHP config file
• Text files with a simple header
• Source images of any size
• PHP-based templates

and transforms them into a static html site. It can

• Resize images to fit the specified page width
• Create a blog archive listing page and an Atom feed
• Skip “draft” posts (filenames that start with #)
• …not much else, really. Isn’t that enough?

URLs are built like this:

about.txt becomes about.html
blog-2011-10-10-blog post title.txt becomes blog/2011/10/10/blog-post-title.html
etc.

For text formatting, just use HTML tags. URLs starting with http:// are automatically converted into links.

Get the source code here.