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title: Building static websites with Drupal
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date: 2025-04-18
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permalink: daily/2025/04/18/static-drupal
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tags:
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- software-development
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- drupal
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- drupal-planet
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cta: ~
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Did you know you can turn Drupal into a static site generator, getting the power of a flexible content management system and the performance and security benefits of a static website?
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I've been using Drupal since 2008 and built the first version of my website with Drupal 6 before updating it to Drupal 7.
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Around that time, I discovered static site generators and built the next version of my website with Jekyll.
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I liked how I could write content in simple plain files, export them to HTML and upload them to a server.
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Static websites are fast and secure.
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There was no need for PHP or a database. Just a simple web server like Apache or Nginx that can serve static files.
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I later switched to Sculpin, a static site generator written with PHP, which has a lot of similarities with Drupal.
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But what if you want the power of Drupal with the benefits of a static website?
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[Tome][0] is a module that turns Drupal into a static site generator.
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Drupal works the same locally with access to all the usual core functionality and contrib modules and themes from Drupal.org, but you export everything to static files - the same as using Jekyll or Sculpin.
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Sam Mortenson, the creator of the Tome module discussed it on [our episode of the Beyond Blocks podcast][1] where we also talked about single file components.
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If you want the power of a flexible content management system and the performance and security benefits of a static website, Tome gives you the best of both worlds.
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[0]: https://www.drupal.org/project/tome
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[1]: {{site.url}}/podcast/19-sam-mortenson
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