The Butler

A ready to use static blog, powered by Cecil.

There is a demo?

▶️ the-butler-demo.cecil.app (theme: Hyde, host: Netlify)
▶️ the-butler-garth.vercel.app (theme: Garth, host: Vercel)

How to use?

Managing content

Forestry CMS

If your goal is managing content quickly, and decide later where to deploy to it, use the following button to import the starter blog to Forestry CMS and start editing immediatelly!

Manually

Edit content files in content/blog/ directly from your repository.

Build & deploy

Locally

Run the following command in a terminal:

bash ./scripts/build.sh

Netlify (demo)

To use Netlify CMS (demo) you must:

1. enable Netlify Identity and Git Gateway
2. invite a user
3. connect to https://<your-blog>.netlify.com/admin/ with the user credentials

Vercel (demo)

Render (demo)

Cloudflare Pages (demo)

See build.sh.

GitHub Actions (demo)

See GitHub Actions workflow file.

GitLab CI (demo)

See GitLab config file.

Travis CI

See Travis config file.

Customize your blog

1. Update configuration by editing config.yml file
2. Change templates by copying files from themes/<theme>/layouts/ to your own layouts/ directory to override them.

Need Help?

Read the Cecil's documentation.

License

The Butler is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

© Arnaud Ligny