The Butler

A ready to use static blog, powered by Cecil.

There is a demo?

▶️ the-butler-demo.cecil.app (theme: Hyde, host: Netlify)
▶️ the-butler-garth.vercel.app (theme: Garth, host: Vercel)

How to use?

Managing content

Manually

Click on the button Use this template.

Then just edit Markdown files in content/blog/ directly from your repository.

Forestry CMS

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!

Build & deploy

Locally

Run the following command in a terminal:

bash ./scripts/build.sh

Cloud

Solution	Demo	Deploy
Netlify	https://the-butler-demo.cecil.app
Vercel	https://the-butler.vercel.app
Render	https://the-butler.onrender.com
Cloudflare Pages	https://the-butler.pages.dev	- Framework preset: `None` - Build command: `curl -sSOL https://cecil.app/build.sh && bash ./build.sh` - Build output directory: `_site`
GitHub	https://cecilapp.github.io/the-butler/	See GitHub Actions workflow file.
GitLab CI	https://cecilapp.gitlab.io/the-butler/	See GitLab config file.
Travis CI	N/A	See Travis config file.

To use Netlify CMS (demo) you must:

enable Netlify Identity and Git Gateway
invite a user
connect to https://<your-blog>.netlify.com/admin/ with the user credentials

Customize your blog

Change configuration by editing config.yml file
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

The Butler is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

lquessenberry/the-butler