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Managing complex content with Array Structures
22 May 2019
Mike Neumegen
• Features
At CloudCannon, we’re always looking for ways to offload content management from developers and empower editors to make changes themselves. Enabling editors to build their own pages with complex elements such as slideshows, testimonials and call to actions is something we’ve wanted to support but haven’t had a good solution for.
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Bringing Git Workflows to Editors
08 May 2019
Mike Neumegen
• Features
In the past we’ve talked about our mission of bringing publishing workflows to non-technical editors. This post is an update on some interesting new CloudCannon features bringing us closer to fully realising our vision.
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Maintenance Debrief
15 Nov 2018
George Phillips
• Operations
We have successfully completed our Scheduled Maintenance. During this time we allocated two hours and completed the migration in just over three hours. During the update we had the following successes:
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Scheduled Maintenance
13 Nov 2018
George Phillips
• Operations
The maintenance was a success and everything is back to normal. Read about the update in our Maintenance Debrief.
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Free Automatic SSL
02 Jul 2018
George Phillips
• Features
This week Chrome is releasing an update that will show “Not Secure” on any site that uses HTTP. This is part of an ongoing strategy to create a more secure web. To assist with this change, we have added free automatic SSL certificates on all CloudCannon connected domains. This draws our SSL private beta to a close making it available for all CloudCannon users.
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Editor Link Modals
18 Jun 2018
Ross Phillips
• Features
Front matter is a great way to structure content and metadata for a Jekyll website. We’ve made some updates to allow you to further integrate your front matter into your editing experience.
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Using Jekyll plugins on GitHub Pages
09 May 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
GitHub Pages is a reliable, performant Jekyll hosting provider which has recently added support for SSL. It’s a great hosting platform but has a major limitation, you can’t use custom Jekyll plugins. Today we’re looking at how CloudCannon can help resolve this limitation.
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Brand New Jekyll Templates
22 Feb 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Announcements
Jekyll is often pigeon-holed as a tool for developers to write their blog. This is just one of the many great uses of Jekyll. We’re always interested in exploring unconventional use cases which push the boundaries in Jekyll. Today we’re releasing three MIT licensed templates which do exactly that.
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Jekyll for Freelancers
07 Feb 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
Jekyll is a fantastic freelancer tool for building client websites. Compared to a traditional CMS like WordPress, there are a number of advantages:
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Custom Editor Styles
23 Jan 2018
Ross Phillips
• Features
The editing interface is the core of CloudCannon. It has sensible defaults for most use cases, and can be configured to cover more. We’ve extended the configuration to allow custom styles, alignment and structure.