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.
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.
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.
Advance your Jekyll content workflow
CloudCannon's Jekyll CMS takes your web development workflow to the next level.
Sync your Jekyll site
Connect your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository.
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.
Invite your content team to collaborate
Give your team access to update the content on the site 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.
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 CMS for Jekyll's intuitive content editing and powerful publishing workflows.
Git-based CMS
Catered to your editors
Flexible publishing
Inline editing
Trusted by world-leading companies
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.
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.