Your content driven static site generator.
Cecil is a CLI application that merges plain text files (written in Markdown), images and Twig templates to generate a static website.
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Read the Quick Start documentation page.
- No server, no database, no dependency: performance and security
- Content is stored in flat files, written in Markdown with YAML front matter
- Powered by Twig, a flexible template engine, with theme support
- Paginaton, taxonomies, redirections (and more !) are generated automatically
- Download just one file and run it
- Easy to deploy
Download cecil.phar from your browser or from your terminal:
curl -LO https://cecil.app/cecil.pharThen install the binary globally:
mv cecil.phar /usr/local/bin/cecil
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cecilPHP 7.1+ is required.
- Get help:
cecil help - Create new website:
cecil new:site - Build and serve it:
cecil serve
Cecil is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
Cecil © Arnaud Ligny
Logo © Cécile Ricordeau