Wordpress ● PHP based ● Builds pages on the fly ● Powers 75 million websites Jekyll ● Ruby static site generator ● Builds a static site ● Powers at least over 650,000 sites. Probably millions.
Development - Wordpress ● index.php calls other templates to build the site ● content.php builds a page or list of blog posts ● Content is stored in a database ● 18 template files
Development - Jekyll ● default.html contains basic HTML structure ● post.html defines the structure of blog posts ● Blog posts are markdown files ● Everything is static