I run an IndieWeb (Micropub, Webmentions) enabled static website and I admit it's not the easiest thing in the world. Coding knowledge definitely helps.
My static site generator is Eleventy. Posts are published by committing to the main branch. I wrote a basic Micropub server which piggy backs on this mechanism to publish (i.e. it "publishes" a post by committing to the main branch). Local comments are handled with staticman.
I receive webmentions via webmention.io. All the webmentions are pulled down and integrated with the site on every build.
Sending webmentions is a bit more complicated. I have an after-build step to send out all webmentions from all posts that haven't already been sent.
All in all - complicated but fun :-)
Jul 23, 2026, 3:06 AM -04:00Static Website Envy
This spring E took down her WordPress blog and replaced it with a static website. In the past weeks she did the same for her business website (and added her own sales channel to it, with just the payment provider as third party element). Now I have static website envy. Until 2002 I had static websites, hand coded in a text editor. Still the easiest way for simple websites, Iām amazed to say. Then from 2003 I used a CMS for my blog, first Movable Type for about a decade and then WordPress from...