# Raw mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Created:** [August 4, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/raw-mode/2818 "2025-08-04T16:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![jonhurst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@jonhurst](https://zola.discourse.group/u/jonhurst)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/raw-mode/2818/7 "2025-08-19T11:37:24Z")
The prototype site generator that I built to explore why Zola wasn’t working for me has now evolved into a nice little application in its own right. Documentation and download from [https://hursts.org.uk/ssg](https://hursts.org.uk/ssg), source code on [github](https://github.com/JonHurst/ssg), if you’re interested. Unfortunately, the directions it evolved in have taken it too far away from Zola to realistically fold it in as an alternative mode; the coding would be straightforward, but the documentation would be all but impossible. A couple of features could easily and very usefully be added to Zola if the maintainers want to take a look. The [[data] and [content] sections](https://hursts.org.uk/ssg/page_files.html) would make a really nice addition to Zola’s frontmatter concept and the [sharding](https://hursts.org.uk/ssg/content.html) has also turned out very nicely, particularly when combined with loading from the [content] section. I think it works much better than [my original markdown sharding idea](https://zola.discourse.group/t/proposal-for-sharding-of-markdown-content/2664). --- _[View the full topic](https://zola.discourse.group/t/raw-mode/2818)._