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Visual Jekyll CMS for easy collaboration

With CloudCannon as your Jekyll CMS, you will have all the tools you need to create amazing static websites.

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CloudCannon for developers

Build Jekyll sites your way

CloudCannon’s Jekyll CMS 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.
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Faster and easier on Jekyll

CloudCannon for editors

The best CMS for Jekyll websites

CloudCannon’s CMS for Jekyll makes content management easy for your marketing team and content editors.

  • Use custom components to build new Jekyll 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 Git-based 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.
  • Roll a site back with full version control of both code and content.
Git workflow

Advance your Jekyll content workflow

CloudCannon's Jekyll CMS takes your web development workflow to the next level.

1

Sync your Jekyll site

Connect your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository.

2

Configure your Jekyll build

Add your environment variables and command line options to automate your build. Or choose to enable Headless Mode to disable builds.

3

Invite your content team to collaborate

Give your team access to update the content on the site without the help of a developer.

4

Go live with hosting

Delight your customers by hosting your site on a global CDN with unparalleled reach and speed.

Netflix
CloudCannon gives our developers total control over our websites while giving the content team an easy-to-use interface.
Jason Adkins
Creative Specialist
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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.
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Intuitive content editing

Take your editing team to the next level with the CloudCannon CMS for Jekyll's intuitive content editing and powerful publishing workflows.

Git-based CMS

Git-based CMS

All changes and workflows sync back to Git so your development and content editing teams are always in sync.
Catered to your editors

Catered to your editors

Give your editors the freedom to change any piece of content, without fear of breaking the site.
Flexible publishing

Flexible publishing

Create branches with staging/production workflows. Your content team has the full power of Git behind a beautiful interface.
Inline editing

Inline editing

Edit content directly on your website. With CloudCannon’s WYSIWYG editor, the whole team can contribute content.

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Get started with CloudCannon's Jekyll learning resources

Want to learn more about Jekyll? Whether it's Jekyll specific documentation, Jekyll tutorials, or Jekyll themes that you're after, CloudCannon has you covered!

Jekyll cheatsheet

Head over to our Jekyll cheatsheet for an exhaustive list of variables, tags, and filters.

Jekyll beginner tutorials

Learn the basics of Jekyll in this 9-part tutorial series.

Jekyll templates

Explore our library of complete static website ready, CloudCannon-optimized free themes for your Jekyll project.

Why choose Jekyll?

A flexible, lightweight and blog-aware static site generator written in Ruby. Jekyll is one of the most popular SSGs available. Jekyll renders markdown, or any text written in your favorite markup language to create static sites using layouts. With excellent documentation and an active (and responsive) community, so you’ll be able to find plenty of examples of Jekyll websites for almost any use case.

By design, Jekyll is relatively stripped back out of the box, but when you’re configuring your static site’s custom domain you’ll find an extensive theme and plugin library available. Jekyll’s Liquid templating engine will be straightforward to pick up for anyone familiar with developing for Wordpress.

Faster and easier SSG

A CMS for Jekyll you can trust

Find out how world leading companies are successfully leveraging CloudCannon's live visual editing. Learn how the best CMS for Jekyll 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.