The Hugo CMS for visual page building
Develop faster, edit easier, and publish confidently with CloudCannon as your Hugo CMS. Your whole team can collaborate to create incredibly fast static sites on an intuitive visual editor with the best CMS for Hugo.
CloudCannon for developers
Build Hugo sites your way
CloudCannon’s CMS for Hugo has everything you need to build, edit, and host the best performing sites on the web.
- Focus on building custom components rather than hand-holding editors through changes.
- Build locally with your favorite tools and frameworks.
- Sync changes to content editors with a Git push.
CloudCannon for editors
The best CMS for Hugo websites
CloudCannon’s CMS for Hugo makes content management easy for your marketing team and content editors.
- Use custom components to build new Hugo site pages visually.
- Share and review changes with a preview site.
- Publish content confidently with a push of a button.
- Make changes without bugging a developer, no technical knowledge needed.
Need help migrating your website?
Our migration team can get your site configured for your ideal editing experience. No matter what services you are using or the current state of your website, we'll do the work for you.
Stay in sync with a Git-based CMS
More than a headless CMS. CloudCannon's Hugo CMS helps your team stay in sync with a unified workflow.
- Content teams commit back to your Git repository through CloudCannon's Visual Editor.
- Create branches for significant changes to prevent blocking staging environments.
- Review changes on a site and merge them into another branch in the content management system.
- Roll a site back with full version control of both code and content.
Advance your Hugo content workflow
CloudCannon's Hugo CMS takes your web development workflow to the next level.
Sync your Hugo site
Connect your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository.
Configure your Hugo build
Add your environment variables and command line options to automate your build. Or choose to enable Headless Mode to disable builds.
Invite your content team to collaborate
Give your team access to update the content on the site, all without the help of a developer.
Go live with hosting
Delight your customers by hosting your site on a global CDN with unparalleled reach and speed. Alternatively, bring your own hosting provider, and CloudCannon will handle it seamlessly.
CloudCannon gives our developers total control over our websites while giving the content team an easy-to-use interface.
CloudCannon's open source ecosystem
Upgrade your static sites with CloudCannon’s powerful open source tools for a wide range of SSGs.
- Bookshop — create component-driven development workflows and enable live rendering editing;
- Pagefind — static search that scales;
- Reseed — integrate multiple sites into a single domain;
- Rosey — manage translations for localization and i18n;
- Pagebreak — granular configuration for site pagination.
Intuitive content editing
Take your editing team to the next level with the CloudCannon Hugo CMS’s powerful content editing and publishing workflows.
Git-based CMS
Built for content editors
Publishing workflows
Intuitive editing
Trusted by world-leading companies
Get started with CloudCannon's Hugo learning resources
Want to learn more about Hugo? Whether it's Hugo specific documentation, Hugo tutorials, or Hugo themes that you're after, CloudCannon has you covered!
Hugo starter guide
Head over to our Hugo specific documentation to make configuration easy so you can focus on building custom components.
Hugo tutorials
Check out our collection of Hugo tutorials to learn the basics or dive into more advanced topics.
Hugo themes
Build your next Hugo project with one of our Hugo templates optimized for editing in CloudCannon.
Why choose Hugo?
Hugo is known as the world’s fastest framework for building websites, with a well deserved reputation for speed, simplicity and flexibility. Hugo the fastest static site generator supported by the Jamstack community, with site builds faster than 1ms per page on an average site.
Distributed as a single cross-platform binary and built with Go (Golang), Hugo lets you get up and running sooner, with built-in functionalities like hugo shortcodes, menus, sitemaps, feeds, i18n and image optimization. And when it comes to themes, Hugo’s got them in spades.
Above all, Hugo boasts a thriving community of active and supportive users contributing to Hugo documentation.
A CMS for Hugo you can trust
Find out how world leading companies are successfully leveraging CloudCannon's live visual editing. Learn how the best CMS for Hugo can help you and your team.
Get started with CloudCannon
Try out CloudCannon with a 21-day free trial, or get in touch with us for a demo.