The Butler

A ready to use static blog, powered by Cecil.

There is a demo?

▶️ the-butler.cecil.app (theme: Hyde)
▶️ the-butler-garth.now.sh (theme: Garth)

How to use?

Managing content

With Forestry

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.

Deploy

To 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

To Vercel (demo)

To Render (demo)

With Travis CI

See Travis config file.

With GitLab CI (demo)

See GitLab config file.

With GitHub Actions (demo)

Edit GitHub Actions workflow file and rename workflows.disabled to workflows to enable the workflow.

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

Starter blog is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

© Arnaud Ligny